Cowboy Boots Meet Big Data: New App Revolutionizes Rangeland Monitoring

Rangeland covers more than 1 million square miles in the United States – about a third of the country. These iconic grazing lands help feed the nation; act as recreational hubs that provide important revenue to local communities; supply water, mineral and wood resources; and are critical wildlife habitat.

Rangeland managers and landowners continuously battle conservation challenges from invasive weeds to wildfires to ensure both healthy land and livelihoods, but it can be tricky to track how vegetation changes over time across these large swaths of wide-open spaces.

Now, researchers at the University of Montana, in collaboration with the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Bureau of Land Management, have developed a new app to make that task a little simpler.

Full Story: http://news.umt.edu/2018/09/091918rang.php