Strategy vs. System: Grazing for Desired Outcomes

Strategy vs. System: Grazing for Desired Outcomes
Sponsored by Colorado Section, Society for Range Management
December 2-4, 2008
Ft. Collins Marriott

Strategy vs. System Videos

Nick Petry Workshop:
Planning Grazing Management: A Key to Profits
Sponsored by the National Western Stock Show Scholarship Trust Fund.
Part of the Colorado Section SRM Annual Meeting

Nick Petry Workshop Videos

Plant/Animal Interaction on Landscapes

Grazing Management � Early Research and Successful Programs; Elements of a Successful Grazing Strategy
Bill Krueger Professor Emeritus Oregon State University

Timing of Grazing and its Effects on Individual Plants
Pat Reece CEO, Prairie & Montane Enterprises

Plant Defoliations � What We Do and Do Not Know
Justin Derner USDA �ARS Cheyenne and David Briske � Texas A&M University

Effects of Grazing on Nitrogen Cycling and Implications for Rangeland Productivity
David Augustine, USDA-ARS Ft. Collins, and Dan Milchunas, Colorado State University

Factors Affecting Animal Selection on a Landscape and Manipulating Distribution Without Fences
Derek Bailey New Mexico State University Department of Animal and Range Sciences

Animal Selectivity � Implications for Management and Research Design

Factors that Affect Animal Selectivity � Implications for Grazing Management
Larry Rittenhouse Professor Emeritus Colorado State University

Why Animals Do What They Do - Influences of Animal Experience on Grazing Choices
Fred Provenza Utah State University

Why Researchers and Practitioners Report Different Results
Richard Teague Texas A&M University Experiment Station, Vernon

Managing Grazing for Desired Ecological Outcomes

Grazing Management and Its Effects on Soils and the Hydrologic Cycle
Jay Volk BNI Coal

Improving Wildlife Habitat Using Grazing Management
Terry Messmer Utah State University Fisheries and Wildlife Professor and Quinney Professor for Wildlife Conflict Management

Grazing Research and Grazing Management: Where Theory Meets Reality
Brien Norton Director, Centre for the Management of Arid Environments, Kalgoorlie, Australia

Planning Grazing Management: A Key to Profits

Welcome
Dr. James Heird

Why I Use Planned Grazing In a Semiarid Environment
Risk Management Using Grazing Management
John Welch, Rancher in Fowler Colorado and General Manager Spade Ranches, Texas

�There are Horses for Courses� � Grazing Strategies for Different Rainfall Patterns
Using Planned Grazing to Change Plant Community Composition in Different Environments
Jim Howell, Holistic Management Rancher from Gunnison Colorado and New Mexico

�Whether You Think You Can or You Think You Can�t, You�re Probably Right�
The Learning Curve and Using Adaptive Management to Make a Successful Grazing Program
Grady Grissom, Rancher, Las Animas County, Colorado

Multi-Species Grazing for Desired Outcomes
Using Multiple Domestic Species for Management Objectives
Rick Danvir, Wildlife Manager Deseret Land and Livestock, Utah

Guidelines of Grazing Management � Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Success of a Grazing Management Program
Rules and guidelines for successful grazing management
Pat Reece, CEO, Prairie & Montane Enterprises

Panel 1

Panel 2

Synthesis of the Past Two Days
Panel discussion and questions with all Tuesday and Wednesday speakers
Moderated and summarized by Fee Busby, USU