Vahdat Heidari - University of Tabriz, Faculty of geography, MA, Geography And Landuse Planning
Shahram Lotfi - University of Tabriz, Faculty of geography, MA, Geography and Applied climatology

A vast area of grassland or pasture that can be flat and smooth , wavy , broken or mountainous and generally unsuitable for agriculture or compliance agreements not covered by grass plants . Animal population of approximately 124 million livestock units stated that about 83 million animal units that are linked to rangeland . It is only if the existing pastures can only feed 37 million animal units in 7 months or 6/24 million animal units in one year may provide . Aims to study and evaluate the status of meadows Urmia watershed factors in rangeland degradation in recent years deals. The method used in this study is a descriptive - analytical and research resources include access to library resources , publications , journals, statistics and satellite imagery is concerned , the result shows that the domain of pasture and livestock in the country and the region has a high capability , but factors such as the drying up of the lake and the growth of industries and the development of all human settlements range and livestock at the regional will limit .

pasture-livestock -urmia lake basin-grazing-watershed