Design of this stamp emphasizes the importance of grassland and livestock to the nation's agriculture and dramatizes the development of range conservation from the pioneer days of the open range to today's scientific range-management techniques. The stamp was released in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society of Range Management, an organization devoted to conservation, forestry, livestock, and land management. The left portion of the stamp design is a reproduction of The Trail Boss, a line drawing by the famous Western artist Charles M. Russell. The right portion of the design portrays a contemporary range scene in the same western setting.