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Range Managers
Research or study range land management practices to provide sustained production of forage, livestock, and wildlife.
- US jobs
- 25,950 (SOC 19-1031 group, "Conservation Scientists")
- Median wage
- $73,010 a year
- Job family
- Science and research
Can agents do the work of range managers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Science and research:
- Task levelPartialThin evidence. CORE-Bench asks agents to reproduce the results of published papers in computer science, social science, and medicine from the authors' code and data. Princeton's HAL team declared it solved in December 2025: Claude Code with Claude Opus 4.5 scored 95.5% after manual regrading. No benchmark in our collection tests new experiments or lab work.
- Project levelNot yetThin evidence. On PaperBench, where agents replicate machine learning papers from scratch, the best official result is 26.0% (o1, April 2025). On a small subset, ML PhDs scored 41.4% against o1's 26.6%. No newer official results exist, and no benchmark tests research projects in other sciences.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in science and research, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 95.5%Claude Code + Claude Opus 4.5 (after manual regrading) · 3 Dec 2025Solved
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Tailor conservation plans to landowners' goals, such as livestock support, wildlife, or recreation.
- Study grazing patterns to determine number and kind of livestock that can be most profitably grazed and to determine the best grazing seasons.
- Maintain soil stability and vegetation for non-grazing uses, such as wildlife habitats and outdoor recreation.
- Manage forage resources through fire, herbicide use, or revegetation to maintain a sustainable yield from the land.
- Mediate agreements among rangeland users and preservationists as to appropriate land use and management.
- Study rangeland management practices and research range problems to provide sustained production of forage, livestock, and wildlife.
- Offer advice to rangeland users on water management, forage production methods, and control of brush.
- Coordinate with federal land managers and other agencies and organizations to manage and protect rangelands.
- Measure and assess vegetation resources for biological assessment companies, environmental impact statements, and rangeland monitoring programs.
- Plan and implement revegetation of disturbed sites.
- Manage private livestock operations.
- Plan and direct construction and maintenance of range improvements, such as fencing, corrals, stock-watering reservoirs, and soil-erosion control structures.
Other job titles for this occupation (19)
Conservationist · Forest Range Program Manager · Land Management Supervisor · Natural Resource Manager · Natural Resource Specialist · Range Management Consultant · Range Management Specialist · Rangeland Management Specialist · Wildlife Manager · Wildlife Refuge Manager · Forestry and Wildlife Manager · Natural Resource Management Specialist · Natural Resource Officer · Natural Resources Officer · Natural Resources Specialist · Range Conservationist · Range Officer · Territory Manager · Wildlife Conservationist