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Rangeland is a type of land that supports different, uncultivated vegetation types that can provide the necessities of life for both native and domestic herbivores in a sustainable fashion.  Range management is a synthesis discipline that draws from many different areas such as wildlife, soils, botany, ecology aquatic biology, physiology, entomology, forestry, systematics, hydrology, GIS/RS, animal science, and others. 

Rangeland occupies approximately 51% (16.6) billion acres of the earth's land surface
One billion acres of rangeland, pastures, and woodlands exist within the U.S.
Within Nebraska, rangelands account for 48% or 23.9 million acres of the state's land area.