ACRONYMS
BLM
What is the Bureau of Land Management?
This community college in Eastern Oregon offers an Associate of Science degree in Rangeland Management
What is Treasure Valley Community College?
Rangeland career where you raise livestock
What is a rancher?
A herbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass
What is a forb?
Percent of the earth's land surface that is covered by rangeland
IRRC
What is the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission?
This Idaho community college offers an associates degree in Natural Resource Management
College of Southern Idaho
Rangeland career where you fight fires
What is a wildland firefighter?
All land in the world that is NOT cultivated farmland, dense forest, barren desert, or covered by solid rock or concrete
What is range, or rangeland?
This state has the highest percent of it's land classified as rangeland
Who is Nevada?
*Rangelands cover about 80% of the state.
USFS
What is the United States Forest Service?
This Idaho land grant university offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Rangeland Ecology and Management
University of Idaho
This federal agency manages the most rangeland in Idaho (and the West)
What is BLM?
Caring for a piece of land, regardless of who owns it
What is stewardship?
The percent of Idaho that is classified as rangeland
NRCS
Natural Resource Conservation Service
This land grant university in Nevada offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Rangeland Ecology and Management
What is University of Nevada Reno?
Name an Idaho state agency that manages rangeland
What is Idaho Department of Lands or Idaho Fish and Game?
Official written permission to graze a specific number, kind, and class of livestock for a specified period on a designated allotment or management area
What is a grazing license or permit?
The average annual precipitation that most rangelands receive
What is 8 to 28 inches?
What is Bruneau Owyhee Sage Grouse Habitat project?
The number of colleges or universities in the United States accredited by the Society for Range Management to offer a degree in Rangeland Ecology and Management
What is 10?
Number of job opportunities available for each student who graduates with a BS in Rangeland Ecology & Management
What is 8 to 10?
The complete kill or removal of a noxious plant from an area
What is eradication?
The total number of acres classified as rangeland in the state of Idaho
What is 28.7 million acres?
*Of this, only 24% is privately owned