Search WizardTopics: Inventory, Monitoring, and Assessment
Inventory, monitoring, and assessment are different approaches for describing and quantifying rangeland vegetation and other resources. They guide proper management of rangeland resources by documenting and interpreting current rangeland status, and evaluating change over time.
The monitoring of vegetation and other natural resources has become an important part of range management on both private and public lands. Rangeland monitoring identifies and documents changes in the resource over time providing information upon which to evaluate management practices in relation to natural influences such as weather. Today many ranchers and other land managers are choosing to collect data and keep their own records on the status of the rangeland resources they manage.
