Society for Range Management

There are TWO WEEKS left to submit abstracts for posters or oral presentations for the 2025 Annual Meeting.

*Healthy Rangelands, Sustainable World*

is the theme of the 2025 Annual Meeting in Spokane. We invite your consideration of the concepts inherent in this theme as you prepare your presentations and posters for the meeting.

More details on submissions can be found at https://rangelands.org/annual-meeting-2025/

All submissions due by August 30!

In June, SRM Member Humberto Perotto was deservingly awarded with the Joan Negley Kelleher Endowed Professorship in Ranch Management - congratulations from your Society colleagues and friends!

“It’s truly a privilege to hold this position,” Perotto said. “I’m very grateful for the trust that the department and College have placed in me, and I will strive to continue impactful research contributions for rangeland management.”

https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2024/06/21/perotto-awarded-endowed-professorship-in-ranch-management/?mc_cid=990bbddb0d&mc_eid=5e2aaf67a0

Last month, SRM's Board of Directors and several staff members met in Spokane, Washington for the Summer Board Meeting. The in-person gathering aims to build off momentum from the Annual Meeting and create excitement for the next, while reviewing the goals, mission and vision of the Board and Officers and discussing ways they have been met and how to further them in the second half of the year.

During the meeting, a special demonstration of Phase 1 of the new data portal was shown by web developers from JTech - illustrating how the back end of the site will streamline processes like awards nominations and certification applications and store important data associated with society business.

The Summer Board Meeting was held at The Davenport Grand, the site of the 2025 Annual Meeting, and included a tour of the meeting facility and layout as well.

"... the collaborative research effort ... challenged the outdated dogma that livestock grazing in the sagebrush steppe always negatively impacts these ecosystems and, in fact, can convey desirable outcomes, particularly in regard to limiting both wildfire risk and invasive annual grasses."

Read more about the research SRM Member Kirk Davies helped lead at ARS:

https://ow.ly/YeQi50SSZat

Our thoughts are with those impacted by wildfires across the West right now.

Lisa Ellsworth, SRM Member and Oregon State University professor, joined Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter to explain why wildfires are not only occurring earlier and more frequently, but also consuming more acres - and how this is impacting the sagebrush steppe.

Listen at https://ow.ly/GHxM50SSXFW

Each month, our team will dissect a new topic intended to improve the productivity of the land and the bottom line of our members. Join today at goodgrazing.org!

Start your new career at UC Berkeley as the Assistant Professor Working Lands for People and the Environment.

Learn more about the position at https://rangelands.org/job-listings/entry/1673/

GGMC's Dave Voth was on the Working Ranch podcast over the weekend talking all things grazing apps! Give it a listen and let us know what you think!

Listen here: https://ow.ly/u3Sk50SHJKP

Great event coming up at the Arizona Section of Society for Range Management!

Register NOW for our Summer Meeting on Aug 7 - 9,2024! You can choose to attend all 3 days or for a full day on Thursday. Go to www.azrangelands.org/store to register today.

Part Two of GGMC's App Review is coming to inboxes on July 25th! Don't miss it!

Not a member? Sign up here: goodgrazing.org

The Call for Symposia and Special Sessions (Ignite, Campfire, and Workshops) is LIVE.

The deadline to submit your proposal is JULY 19, 2024.

The official Call, with information related to each category and criteria for submitting, can be found here: https://ow.ly/gl6f50SAX5c

“One of BLM's highest priorities is to promote ecosystem health, and one of the greatest obstacles to achieving this goal is the rapid expansion of noxious and invasive weeds... BLM applies an integrated approach to vegetation management that includes science-informed and appropriate use of herbicides to manage weeds across public lands.”

Read more: https://ow.ly/zk1V50SA7k1

📣 COMING TOMORROW: Grazing Apps Part 1!

Got an app you think we should check out for Part 2? Comment below!

Univeristy of Arizona is hiring an Executive Director of the Natural Resource Users Law and Policy Center (NRULPC).

The NRULPC supplies Tribes, private landowners, public lands managers, and natural resource users with critical information and technical assistance when they face complex legal environments.

Learn more at https://rangelands.org/job-listings/entry/1651/

One week until GGMC's review of grazing apps hits inboxes! Make sure you're on the list at goodgrazing.org!

We love a good story about rangelands taking people around the world.

"These places share these common interests, from the nomads in Tibet and herders in Mongolia to ranchers here [in the United States]," Daniel Miller told Tri-State Livestock News editor Kaycee Monnens-Cortner.

Read his inspiring story at the link below!

2024 Ag Pride | The Joining of East and West Daniel Miller hangs his hat in Buffalo, Wyoming. Incidentally, the town is the home of the Occidental Hotel, named for the western culture it inhabits. It seems a lucky coincidence. As “occidental” describes the western...

Have you heard about IMAGINE's Tech Transfer Partnership?

A core team (with several SRM'ers) are taking action to put science into practice, helping land managers address the greatest threat to the sagebrush biome: invasive annual grasses

Learn more at https://www.invasivegrasses.com/tech-transfer

Join the Nature Conservancy in beautiful Dillon, Montana to seek and test science-based methods to help keep working ranches profitable and sustainable while improving soil and habitat health.

Learn more at https://rangelands.org/job-listings/entry/1644/

Have a range management question? Send it our way!

Your query will be answered by our team of experts. Questions also have a chance to be covered more in-depth in a future video or newsletter edition.

We've been hearing a lot of rumblings about the Operational Flexibility Grazing Management Program Act this week.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) worked with Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) to introduce the bill which "would improve the management of livestock grazing on federal lands by allowing livestock operators to adapt and respond to emergencies, like droughts or wildfires, more flexibly."

What do you think of the proposed legislation? Let us know in the comments!

Oregon, Wyoming senators propose bill to expand grazing on federal land Bill aims to improve the management of livestock grazing on federal lands by allowing livestock operators to adapt and respond to emergencies, like droughts or wildfires, more flexibly.

Two of our members out of Nevada are making strides in the digital mapping realm. Read about the work of rangeland ecologist Lucas Phipps and Professor Tamzen Stringham.

https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2024/avrs-mapping

Give this a listen and let us know what you think!
https://ow.ly/ZN5S50S901G

Uh-oh! Did you miss the deadline to submit nominations for honor awards?

Good News!

It's been extended by one month to July 1, 2024!

Visit the link below to complete nomination forms.

https://rangelands.org/resources/awards/how-to-submit-a-nomination/

The top Texas youth from our 2023 Youth Range Workshop are headed out this week for some intense, hands on range action. They will visit a number of ranches, evaluate soil health, practice low stress livestock handling, evaluate quail habitat, move grazing animals, evening leadership activities and so much more. They will spend some in depth time on the G-C Ranch, recent winner of the National Environmental Stewardship Award and several other ranches. Our ranches are eager to help these kids get their hands in the dirt!

Meanwhile, TSSRM is gearing up for our Youth Range workshop as well. A few lucky youth from that event will get to experience YRW2 next year!

Getting packed for YRW2! Who's ready for a week of serious range nerd fun! Many thanks for the support in purchasing tools and books for our participants.
Texas Section SRM
Texas Grazing Land Coalition
National Grazing Lands Coalition
Noble Research Institute

Issue 4 of GGMC comes out a week from today! Have you been wondering about what NRCS programs are available to you? Get some insight in the upcoming edition. Sign up here: goodgrazing.org

Questions about NRCS programs? Comment below!

It's that time of year again!

Nominations from SRM's honor awards are due JUNE 1, 2024. Check out the categories and submit some deserving colleagues today.

AND don't miss the newest award, the Commitment to Community Engagement Award, which recognizes efforts towards diversity and inclusion that broaden SRM’s membership and support thriving range communities.

Instructions and forms can all be found at rangelands.org/resources/awards/how-to-submit-a-nomination/

The future of range looks bright! Seeing so many bright young minds participate in the Nation Range contest is why SRM is happy to sponsor awards for the best of the best - and this year we were happy to see some from Texas and South Dakota in the ranks.

Congratulations to all!

Check out the results and view more photos at https://www.okconservation.org/nationallandrangejudging