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Range Managers

$64.46K Median Salary 2.5K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 5.9% Job Growth

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About This Career

Research or study range land management practices to provide sustained production of forage, livestock, and wildlife.

Reported Job Titles

Conservationist, Land Management Supervisor, Natural Resource Manager, Natural Resource Specialist, Range Management Specialist, Range Technician, Rangeland Management Specialist, Rangeland Technician, Refuge Manager, Resource Manager

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Abilities

Oral Expression

Written Comprehension

Oral Comprehension

Problem Sensitivity

Written Expression

Deductive Reasoning

Inductive Reasoning

Near Vision

Speech Clarity

Far Vision

Information Ordering

Speech Recognition

Category Flexibility

Fluency of Ideas

Originality

Flexibility of Closure

Mathematical Reasoning

Selective Attention

Knowledge

Biology

English Language

Geography

Law and Government

Administration and Management

Administrative

Customer and Personal Service

Public Safety and Security

Computers and Electronics

Education and Training

Mathematics

Design

Skills

Active Listening

Reading Comprehension

Critical Thinking

Speaking

Complex Problem Solving

Judgment and Decision Making

Monitoring

Coordination

Active Learning

Negotiation

Systems Analysis

Writing

Social Perceptiveness

Systems Evaluation

Instructing

Persuasion

Service Orientation

Time Management

Technology Skills

Analytical or scientific software

Presentation software

Data base user interface and query software

Map creation software

Object or component oriented development software

Geographic information system

Operating system software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Spreadsheet software

Mobile location based services software

Office suite software

Word processing software

Time accounting software

Web page creation and editing software

Web platform development software

Data mining software

Tools

Permeability testing apparatus

Light absorption meters

Tape measures

Laboratory sifting equipment

Measuring rods

Notebook computers

Digital cameras

Plumb bobs

Penetrometers

Plant samples analysis equipment

Portable data input terminals

Bench scales

Video attachments for microscopes

Global positioning system GPS receiver

Soil core sampling apparatus

Strain gauges

Desktop computers

Personal computers

Tablet computers

Abilities

Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Knowledge

Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

Skills

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Technology Skills

Analytical or scientific software: Statistical analysis software; TapRooT
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Data base user interface and query software: Blackboard software; Database software; Microsoft Access; Yardi software
Map creation software: ESRI Site Scan for ArcGIS; OpenDroneMap
Object or component oriented development software: Oracle Java
Geographic information system: ESRI ArcView; Geographic information system GIS systems
Operating system software: Microsoft Windows
Graphics or photo imaging software: SmugMug Flickr
Spreadsheet software: Microsoft Excel
Mobile location based services software: Global positioning system GPS software
Office suite software: Microsoft Office software
Word processing software: 3M Post-it App; Evernote; Google Docs; Microsoft Word
Time accounting software: Timekeeping software
Web page creation and editing software: Facebook; Google Sites; LinkedIn; Social media sites
Web platform development software: Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP
Data mining software: Google Analytics

Tools

Permeability testing apparatus: Infiltrometers
Light absorption meters: Wave meters
Tape measures: Diameter tape measures
Laboratory sifting equipment: Sieve shakers
Measuring rods: Surveyors leveling rods
Notebook computers: Laptop computers
Digital cameras:
Plumb bobs:
Penetrometers: Pocket penetrometers
Plant samples analysis equipment: Quadrat frames
Portable data input terminals: Data acquisition equipment; Data loggers
Bench scales: Digital bench scales
Video attachments for microscopes: Video microscopes
Global positioning system GPS receiver: Global positioning system GPS receivers
Soil core sampling apparatus: Grab samplers
Strain gauges:
Desktop computers:
Personal computers:
Tablet computers:

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