num_pages: 607
description: This introduction to the science of range management couples the latest concepts and technology with proven traditional approaches. It combines fundamental topics, such as range plant physiology, range plant ecology, stocking-rate considerations, and grazing system selection, with the most recent research. The volume addresses rangeland and man, range management history, rangeland physical characteristics, description of rangeland types, plant physiology, ecology, inventory and monitoring, considerations concerning stocking rate, selection of grazing methods, methods of improving livestock distribution, range animal nutrition, range livestock production, wildlife management, manipulation of range vegetation, range management in developing countries, planning, technology, and the outlook for future. For Range Conservationist, Wildlife Biologist, Natural Resource Managers, Watershed Mangers and Foresters.
language: English
title: Range Management: Principles and Practices
titlecomplete: Range Management: Principles and Practices
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Pearson College Div