Where are the U.S. grazing lands?
Grazing lands exist in every state, but the amounts and kinds of land and the uses, products, and values from grazing lands vary from state to state. Examples of grazing land include– • annual grasslands of California; • hot deserts in the southwestern states and cold deserts in the Great Basin; • shrub-grasslands throughout the western states; • prairie grasslands of the Great Plains and Corn Belt; • humid grasslands of the eastern United States and Hawaii; • tundra rangelands of Alaska; • improved pasture and hay lands throughout the Intermountain West, Northern Great Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast, and South; • wetlands and riparian areas in every state; and • grazed forests in all states adjacent to and east of the Mississippi River and in the mountain states of the West. Although some pasture and hay lands are managed as a monoculture, others–particularly rangelands–are complex mixes of species that offer increased plant, animal, and landscape diversity. Many eastern forests us
