The Undergraduate Range Management Exam or URME is a standardized exam given to undergraduates who attend SRM conferences at the state and national chapter levels. It covers subjects from ecology to stocking rates.
URME is a great opportunity to showcase your understanding of the concepts that dictate management and restoration of rangelands .
The plant ID competition is an in-person test that has competitors identify pressings of 100 plants from a list of 200. It is a competition that USU has participated in at both the state and national levels.
Of these plants a competitor must know the tribe or family, the genus, the species name, whether it is a annual or perennial, and if it is native or non-native to the United States.
The Rangeland Cup is a competition where teams of 4 and one mentor develop a solution to an issue of rangeland management. Critical thinking and problem solving are valuable skills to have and to develop through this competition.
New topics are assigned each year.