How to Use rangeland in a Sentence

rangeland

noun
  • Those conditions include such things as the health of the rangeland.
    Keith Ridler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The pasture, rangeland and forage program is a hedge against drought.
    Alex Leary, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The remainder of the route twists around stone pinnacles, rolling hills and rangeland.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In the eyes of the BLM, pinyon pine and juniper trees are weedy species that invade sagebrush rangelands and increase the risk of wildfire.
    Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • California has about 56 million acres of rangeland, the single largest type of land use in the state.
    Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There are all kinds of rangeland and open country where nobody ever goes.
    Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Forested mountaintops float above a vast sea of rangeland and desert.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Griggs once found a group of dirt bikers tearing up a remote area of his rangeland.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 June 2017
  • Vast stretches of rangeland nestled in the Rocky Mountains, the nation's tenth largest state, but the least populous.
    ABC News, 16 May 2021
  • According to the report, 72% of Utah’s rangeland and pastures were rated poor to very poor, as of July 18.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • Then Wick and Rathmann met a rangeland ecologist named Jeff Creque.
    Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The team has been searching under the high summer sun without success for the fossil-rich strata that braid through the arid rangeland here.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The road crosses the gorge of Cottonwood Canyon before emerging on expansive rangeland at the mouth of a pass that flows between the two mesas.
    Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Compare that to Idaho, Pyron said, where the most productive rangeland would be more like 1,500 pounds per acre.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2021
  • Herds of bison—more than 1,000 strong, in total—wander the grounds, munching on ample rangeland.
    Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2018
  • That amount of money can buy a lot of ranches, especially in a part of the country where unimproved rangeland sells for less than $500 per acre.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 13 Oct. 2020
  • For wind, turbines can easily be placed in working fields or rangeland.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • With a small population and plenty of vast, open forest and rangeland, Montana has forever been known to hunters as a pick of the litter.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Diversifying the rangeland About a hundred miles southwest of Emory, Gary Price is preparing for the future – in part by looking to the past.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2022
  • To the west, Mingus and Woodchute mountains stand out over acres of golden rangeland dotted with cactus, juniper and yucca.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2021
  • McCorry and his son farm it now, and recently planted acres of pistachios that march across the former rangeland in sharp rows, like lines of soldiers.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The Cedar City field office reports that the ongoing drought in Utah has depleted rangeland resources and compromised the health of the wild horses in these areas.
    Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 June 2022
  • The fire’s size so far puts it fourth on the list of the state’s largest blazes in modern times, including rangeland fires, and second on the list of infernos specifically burning in forest.
    Gillian Flaccus, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2021
  • The fire's size so far puts it fourth on the list of the state's largest blazes in modern times, including rangeland fires, and second on the list of infernos specifically burning in forest.
    Gillian Flaccus, ajc, 20 July 2021
  • After a short traipse through sunny rangeland, the route makes a mild uphill climb to where views of distant mountain ranges and peaks appear over acres of paloverde trees and enormous saguaro cactuses.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Other cattlemen came to the Big Bend with blooded cattle and money, and began buying up the rangeland that Faver had long used without expense.
    John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The fire's current size puts it fourth on the list of the state's largest blazes in modern times, including rangeland fires, and second on the list of infernos specifically burning in forest.
    Gillian Flaccus, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • The Forest Service has applied its rangeland utilization metric in this area.
    Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
  • But the immediate concern in the coming weeks is for cattle producers to find ways to feed and water their livestock while the rangeland’s native plants regrow.
    Karen Hickman, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And it is further being eroded as pastoralists, pushed off their traditional rangelands by drought, turn to grazing their flocks on the mountain’s flanks.
    Kang-Chun Cheng, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023

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