Rangeland

The Knigge Ranch is a 800-acre ranch located 10 miles west and 7 miles north of Verdigre, Nebraska. This ranch has been in the Kreycik name since July 11, 1898. Lance and Lorie (Kreycik) Knigge have been the owners since October 23, 1998. Currently, there are three major management concerns throughout the property which are identified below. Canada Thistle (Cirium arvense) Introduction Canada thistle (Cirium arvense) is an invasive, perennial species of noxious weed that spreads rapidly by…

plants would either die also or relocate. The larger carnivores would then have nothing to eat also, so they’d have to do the same as the small animals; either die off or relocate. “But as the herbicides rain down on forest and field, on marsh and rangeland, they are bringing about marked changes and even permanent destruction of wildlife habitat” (Carson pg. 74). Now, that the surrounding wildlife and plants are gone, the area would be dull, silent, and not very appealing to tourists. Instead…

groundwater). As water (surface runoff) resulting from the storm or precipitation or snowmelt runs over the land surface, it will pick up potential pollutants include pathogenic organisms as it runs over livestock excrement from barnyards, pastures, rangelands, feedlots. Furthermore, the discharge from the areas of land application of sewage sludge deposit or effluents discharge from wastewater into freshwater and the seepage of the human waste from a septic tanks. Some of the runoff will…

Case 6.1 Wild Horses According to research, more than 67,000 wild horses and burros are estimated to be roaming Western public rangeland which is a 15 percent increase over the 2015 population. It was reported that there were eighteen percent increase from 2014 to 2015. The actual population has been calculated to be more than double the number of horses on the range than is recommended under BLM land use plans. Decision making involves the process of choosing to focus on a “course of action”…

Approximately 70% of in the United States is owned privately. These private lands are a are a major habitat for wildlife and provide a vast array of outdoor activities for people. Private land owners can gain an income from fee hunting and it is an motivation for them to properly manage the wildlife habitat. Fee hunting has many advantages to it as well as disadvantages. Land holders with an interest in the wildlife are more likely to maintain the range than those that have no concern for the…

Pigs adapt their diet to best utilize local resources. In the semi-arid rangelands of eastern Australia and in New Guinea feral pigs will regularly hunt and devour lambs (particularly twin lambs (which are weaker) (Choquenot, Lukins and Curran 1997, in Wolf and Conover 2003; Hide 2003). On Horn Island, Mississippi, hogs take advantage…

equipment such as tools. Forest Rangers perform a wide range of tasks for state and national forests but being a forest ranger has some safety risks. Forest rangers jobs focus on protecting and conserving natural resources, particularly in forests and rangelands. Coursework in a forestry degree program typically includes forest biology, forest measurement and inventory and renewable resource management. The forest ranger makes certain forests stay secure and healthy. They can work for a…

Deterioration in soil and plant cover have adversely affected nearly 50 percent of the land areas as the result of human mismanagement of cultivated and range lands. Overgrazing and woodcutting are responsible for most of the desertification of rangelands, cultivation practices inducing accelerated water and wind…

Steps I would take to evaluate the land conditions is to analyze and determine the main causes of the issue at hand by determining the causes of the degrading over overgrazing and invasive weeds that are replacing native grasses. By doing this we can analyze the causes of grazing by ranchers and study how restoring these lands through the restoration process that can be used in order to provide a positive effects and outlook on the environment. Some approaches we can take when evaluating…

The main idea of this article was that the world population is increasing and we will need to approximately double the amount of crops we produce globally by 2050 in order to feed everyone adequately. This issue has been causing much debate and has pretty much split people into two groups, those who believe we need to implement more conventional large-scale agricultural practices and the opposition who believe we should focus on more local, smaller-scale organic agricultural practices. The…