Part 1: Laying the Groundwork for Range Monitoring

Trend Monitoring

Depending on who you talk to or which resource you read, you will see there are several different types of rangeland monitoring.

Trend monitoring is the documentation of change over time in vegetation or other rangeland resource attributes. This type of monitoring requires repeated measurements of the same attributes at the same location. Information collected is then used to determine if there is progress toward pre-established management objectives.

Decisions are made to adjust management practices based on whether or not these objectives are being met.

In this learning module, trend monitoring is known simply as “monitoring.”