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Grazing Management |
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GRAZING MGT |
| CLASS CODE: |
AS 260 |
CREDITS:
3
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FEE: $20.00
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| DIVISION: |
AGRICULTURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES |
| DEPARTMENT: |
ANIMAL SCIENCE |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. |
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| CATALOG DESCRIPTION: |
Principles and practices of forage management. The study of animal impact on ecological processes. Plant identification and grazing management strategies that include management intensive grazing, monitoring, rangeland systems. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Principles and practices of forage management. The study of animal impact on ecological processes. Plant identification and grazing management strategies that include management intensive grazing, monitoring, rangeland systems. |
| TOPICS: |
Ecological processes, energy flow, mineral cycling, water cycling, biological state of plants, warm season, cool season grasses, overgrazing, management intensive grazing, carbohydrate root reserve, managing through drought, economics of grazing. |
| OBJECTIVES: |
Teach students the art of observation. To study the ecological process and how through proper grazing management enhance over all health of land. Study the economic advantage of proper management intensive grazing. |
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 2002 |
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