Rangelands have many uses, such as acting as grazing land for livestock and recreational land for communities. Private rangeland owners can voluntarily enter into a legally binding conservation easement to limit the development of their land and preserve it for future generations.

Depending on how they’re defined, grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world’s land area. They are generally open and fairly flat, and they exist on every continent except Antarctica, which makes them vulnerable to pressure from human populations.

Unfortunately, human farming and development has caused the grassland biome to steadily shrink. There are conservation efforts going on to try and save the grasslands that are left as well as the endangered plants and animals. Forbs are plants that grow in the grasslands that aren’t grasses.

The average pay for a Rangeland Manager is $68,730.62. The highest paid Rangeland Manager made $161,900 in 2018.

Rangelands, primarily covered by natural vegetation, provide grazing and forage for livestock and wildlife. Rangeland and grassland ecosystems provide benefits vital to agriculture and the environment including: Land for farming. Grazing and forage for livestock and native animals.

They are increasingly used as an immense recreational resource by millions of visitors each year. Whether publicly or privately owned, rangelands produce tangible products such as forage, wildlife habitat, water, minerals, energy, plant and animal gene pools, recreational opportunities, and some wood products.

Rangelands are very varied in all their physical, biological, climatic and human activity dimensions, but as a useful generalization rangelands are wild grasslands in which grasses are not artificially seeded pasture and are managed as permanent pastures.

Types of rangelands include tallgrass and shortgrass prairies, desert grasslands and shrublands, woodlands, savannas, chaparrals, steppes, and tundras.