Rangeland

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-023107",
  "term": "Rangeland",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Land, mostly grasslands, whose plants can provide food (i.e., forage) for grazing or browsing animals. See feedlot\n\n2. Those ecosystems dominated by grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, or shrubs and dominated by herbavors. Most of the rangelands in the United States are to the west of an irregular North/South line that cuts through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Knasas, Oklahoma, and Texas.\n\n3. Land cover/use category on which the climax or potential plant cover is composed principally of native grasses, grasslike plants, forbs or shrubs suitable for grazing and browsing, and introduced forage species that are managed like rangeland. This would include areas where introduced hardy and persistent grasses, such as crested wheatgrass, are planted and such practices as deferred grazing, burning, chaining, and rotational grazing are used, with little or no chemicals or fertilizer being applied. Grasslands, savannas, many wetlands, some deserts, and tundra are considered to be rangeland. Certain communities of low forbs and shrubs, such as mesquite, chaparral, mountain shrub, and pinyon-juniper, are also included as rangeland.\n\n4. Open land with indigenous vegetation.",
  "subject": "Climate change",
  "references": [
    "Greenhouse Gas Emissions",
    "NASA Sustainable Development Indicator Group at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/iwgsdi/Rangeland.html",
    "USDA National Resources Inventory Glossary",
    "40 CFR 503.11 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/rangeland/"
}