How to Use rangeland in a Sentence

rangeland

noun
  • There are all kinds of rangeland and open country where nobody ever goes.
    — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Those conditions include such things as the health of the rangeland.
    — Keith Ridler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Forested mountaintops float above a vast sea of rangeland and desert.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The pasture, rangeland and forage program is a hedge against drought.
    — Alex Leary, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Griggs once found a group of dirt bikers tearing up a remote area of his rangeland.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 June 2017
  • For wind, turbines can easily be placed in working fields or rangeland.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The remainder of the route twists around stone pinnacles, rolling hills and rangeland.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Ant exports are controlled because the insects help rangelands stay healthy.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • And ranchers are looking for hay in case the rangeland and pastures can’t provide enough food for their cattle this summer.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • These seams cross sparsely populated rangeland in the middle of the country.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Cattle grazing could be intensified to thin forage on fire-prone rangeland.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • This is in large part because the BLM’s rangeland management staff is shrinking.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Instead of rigid dates, the proposal would give permittees the ability to adjust their turn-in dates based on rangeland goals.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2026
  • Then Wick and Rathmann met a rangeland ecologist named Jeff Creque.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • This is welcome relief for livestock producers, who sometimes were blamed for rangeland damage not caused by their cattle.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2026
  • What happened in that rangeland draw challenged my rationality and, to be honest, my mental health.
    — Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2013
  • 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
  • The way of life that has supported them for centuries—herding animals in the rangelands—could soon evaporate thanks to climate change.
    — Mohamed Adow, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Vast stretches of rangeland nestled in the Rocky Mountains, the nation's tenth largest state, but the least populous.
    — ABC News, 16 May 2021
  • The Forest Service has applied its rangeland utilization metric in this area.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sagebrush rangeland once covered one-third of the continental United States.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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

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