{"id":1073,"date":"2023-03-22T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T07:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2023-03-28T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:15:59","slug":"wood-plant-encroachment-in-grasslands-teaching-by-rapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/wood-plant-encroachment-in-grasslands-teaching-by-rapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Plant Encroachment in Grasslands: Teaching by RAP\u2019ping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you headed to Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Conference this weekend? If so, be sure to stop by and see our very own Erika Sullivan during the Graduate Poster Presentation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Erika has been involved in The Prairie Project, which is a multi-state extension and education approach to building rangeland literacy in the classroom, specifically using prescribed fire and multi-species grazing. The Educational and outreach curriculum was developed using both the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) and vegetation monitoring transects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1074 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture1-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture1-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture1.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participants in the project were able to use RAP and become familiar with the platform. They analyzed the effects of specific management practices like prescribed fire, patch-burn grazing, and multi-species grazing on grasses, forbs, shrubs, and tree cover. Participants from this study ranged from 4H\/FFA youth all the way to Texas Master Naturalists. Highschool students experiences the largest increase in knowledge gained at 22% on woody brush encroachment and understanding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1075 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture2-300x296.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture2-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/westtexasrangelands\/files\/2023\/03\/Picture2.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on this project or about the RAP platform, be sure to visit Erika on Saturday in the Expo Hall from 11 am \u2013 1 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Aren\u2019t going to be able to make it to Cattle Raisers? Check out these websites for more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlfw.org\/yieldgap\/\">https:\/\/www.wlfw.org\/yieldgap\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rangelands.app\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"1\">https:\/\/rangelands.app\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprairieproject.org\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"2\">https:\/\/www.theprairieproject.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you headed to Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Conference this weekend? 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