The USDA and Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service welcome you to the National Learning Center for Private Forest and Range Landowners. We are excited to provide this new educational opportunity for landowners like yourself across the country. The interactive learning options are self-paced learning materials will help you to meet your personal management goals for your land. Whether you are a new or long time landowner, forest and range has resources that can help you:

Create wildlife habitat
Protect natural resources
Find new and secondary markets for forest products
Preserve forest and range health
Improve water quality
Manage your forest as a long term asset
Deal with the impacts of drought and wildfire.

Natural resource professionals produce all the resources you will find here, which are organized in easy to complete learning modules. So why not get started? Just click on "Learning Options" in the column to the left.

Featured module: Rangeland Weeds

Invasive plants. Non-natives. Weeds. We call them by lots of names, but no matter what you call them, they all mean a growing problem for range landowners. Check out this new addition to Forest and range to learn helpful prevention, management, and control strategies to deal with rangeland weeds.

Rangeland Weeds module

Share your success stories

Have you learned something from visiting Forest and Range? Have you tried a new management practice or maybe gained a skill? If Forest and Range has been helpful to you, we want to hear from you. Click on the link below to share your success story.

Share my success story

What do you think?

Providing a quaility educational resource that meets the needs of landowners and educators is our highest priority here at Forest and Range. Please take a few minutes to let us know how we are doing by filling out this simple survey by following the link below:

Landowner Survey

Natural resource management educator survey