ENCS406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rangeland Management, Parks Canada, Ecosystem Services

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4 things to distinguish rangelands: climate, topography, soils and disturbances (the only one we can manipulate is disturbance: rangelands defined. Rangelands are those areas of the world that are a source of forage for free-ranging native and domestic animals, as well as a source of wood products, water and wildlife. and other animals who graze and forage. We want to use rangelands for forage but. Tragedy of the commons is the foundation for rangeland management (consequence of overusing and unregulated grazing). Arctic: rangeland because there"s muskox, caribou without overusing and degrading. Includes 55-70% of the earth"s terrestrial land area. Rangeland is a philosophy, not identified by types of plants. So native plants aren"t in the definition of rangeland. Greenland isn"t a rangeland because it"s pure ice. Rangelands provide ~70% of forage for all livestock and ~95% of forage for all wildlife.

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