Improved Range Plants in Resource Management is the first in a new numbered series of range symposia to be published by the Society for Range Management. One or more symposia have been presented at each of the 28 Annual Meetings of the Society, but publication of the papers has been highly variable. A few complete symposia have been published in the Journal of Range Management or in separate bound volumes; many individual symposium papers have been published in the Journal. This group of papers on improved range plants is a worthy choice to introduce the new series. We trust that the Society will continue to publish timely and informative symposia in the future.