PURPOSE
This event helps students to develop an interest in the industry that helps feed our state and nation. This program is taught in the agriculture curriculum to help enhance the higher thinking skills of its participants. The Range CDE and its supporting instruction helps students understand the ways to better improve and conserve our natural resources of rangeland. This event provides opportunity for mastery of foundational knowledge and understanding contributing to future learning and success in college level coursework related to range management, soil evaluation and plant identification.