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With Gratitude
Many thanks to Nicole Juve and Kevin Sedivec on hosting a fantastic 2019 RP Annual Meeting and tour!
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Save the Date
2020 SRM Annual Meeting
Denver, CO | February 16-20, 2020
Visit the website for more details
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Nebraska on the Map
Access information about Nebraska Rangelands. Now available by clicking the Rangelands West state map.
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Message from the Chair
By Retta Bruegger
Colorado State University
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Greetings Rangelands Partnerships members, colleagues, and friends! In 2016, I joined the Rangelands Partnership soon after starting my job as the regional specialist in range management for CSU Extension. Maybe it helped that the meeting was in Hawaii that year. Or maybe it was the great colleagues involved. We will never know, but all I can say is that I’ve been hooked ever since. Not only does Colorado have a new range extension website (due in no small part to the encouragement by the Rangeland Partnership), but I’ve also benefitted from being connected to a broader network through Partnership. If Hawaii got me interested, the people convinced me to stick around. I have the Partnership to thank for the networking and all the colleagues around the region who have helped me raise the bar in terms of what range Extension can look like in western Colorado.
It’s with these thoughts that I’m looking forward to giving back in my role as 2019-2020 Chair of the Rangelands Partnership.
This year brings exciting developments for the Rangelands Partnership. A website re-design is underway, initiated by the stellar team at the University of Arizona. We are working with Kim Daly, a professional in the field, to gather user experience data, use best visual practices in web design, and apply this to design. The re-design will result in a single website that is more visually appealing, navigable, and accessible to end-users.
Partnership development and outreach continues through three work teams: sustainability, content development, and social media and marketing. These groups work throughout the year to improve content, ensure the economic viability of the group, and promote the organization and funded projects.
Partnership members have been recognized for their work in a few large-scale national grants. The University of Idaho (lead by Jason Karl) and University of Arizona received a NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant to synthesize rangeland and grazing resources in a searchable app. Mark Thorne received a RREA grant to put on a webinar conference series. The series will showcase particularly innovative and effective programs that address the nine cross-cutting issues identified in the RREA strategic plan, and in so doing, increase the capacity of extension staff across the US.
Finally, please join us for Rangeland Partnership meeting during the week of March 30, 2020 in Tucson (specific dates TBD). Personally, I will be happy to return to Tucson, where I completed my MS and where the sun (usually) shines and where we are likely to schedule the meeting concurrent with citrus season and the blooming of the Palo Verde trees.
With the leadership of Tip Hudson (2018-2019 Chair); the support of Livia Olsen (2019-2020 Vice Chair), new Partnership member Krista Ehlert (2019-2020 Secretary), continuing Treasurer Jeremy Kenyon; and the indispensable help of the EC+, we enter this year strong. As Chair, I hope to continue the great momentum and bring us into the next year with renewed excitement and productivity.
Yours,
Retta Bruegger
Regional Specialist in Range Management, Colorado State University Extension, Western Colorado
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Join the WERA 1008 List
By Barb Hutchinson
University of Arizona
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Who is on the WERA List:
Arizona - Barb Hutchinson, George Ruyle, Sheila Merrigan, Jeanne Pfander, Kelly Arizmendi, Matt Rahr, Sarah Noelle, Amber Dalke
Colorado - Jocelyn Boice, Retta Bruegger
Hawaii - Mark Thorne
Idaho - Jeremy Kenyon, Karen Launchbaugh
Kansas - Walt Fick,
Nevada - Brad Schultz
North Dakota - Nicole Juve
Oklahoma - Karen Hickman
Utah - Beth Burritt
Washington - Tip Hudson
Wyoming - Kristie Maczko, Derek Scasta, David Kruger
Either you or your Agricultural Experiment Station should be able to submit the Appendix E for WERA 1008.
Joining the WERA List: To Create and Submit an Appendix E for a Proposed/Existing Project:
- Go to the National Information Management Support System at https://www.nimss.org/
- Insert your login and password. (If you don't have a login, you'll need to register, also at the above URL.)
- On the Left side Menu, Select Participants then Select Draft/Edit
- On the Left side Menu, Select "Draft New"
- Select the project number for proposed WERA_TEMP1234 or existing WERA1008 - http://www.waaesd.org/rangelands-west-partnership
- Fill out the form.
- Click on Submit.
Please contact Barb Hutchinson if you have any problems joining.
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Partner Awards
By Amber Dalke
University of Arizona
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John Tanaka received the Rangelands Partnership's Trailblazer Award at the 2019 meeting in Fargo, ND. The award is given to those who have gone above and beyond to support the Partnership. John served as the Partnership’s WERA Multi-state project Administrative Advisor, as well as a primary representative from both Oregon and Wyoming. In addition, Ann developed and has managed the Partnership's membership site for many years. Thank you to John and Ann for your many contributions to the Partnership over the past 17 years!
Susan Marshall received the Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching from Humboldt State University in May. She has been dedicated to building and promoting the Rangeland Resource Sciences major. The only program of its kind in California, Rangeland Resource Sciences emphasizes authentic field experiences to train undergraduates to enter the profession upon graduation. “Our area of study is not well known to many incoming students, and it is a direct result of Susan's dedicated efforts that prospective students are shown the widespread impact our course of study has,” says a colleague. Learn more.
Allison Level is this year's recipient of the 2019 CSU Libraries Faculty Award for Excellence. This award recognizes a member of the Libraries faculty for outstanding contributions to the Libraries, to the University, and/or the library profession.
Congratulations to John Tanaka, Ann Tanaka, Susan Marshall and Allison Level!
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Native American
Rangeland Training Initiative
By Yvette Gibson
Oregon State University
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Native American Rangeland Training Initiative is a partnership among NRCS, BIA, and SRM. It is led by a partnership between Diana Doan Crider and Yvette Gibson (although it's really Diana’s brain child). The Initiative provides four programs: online rangeland ecology and management courses; field workshops; collaboration with tribal colleges to work in range components, and outreach toolkits to educate tribal members on rangeland ecology and management. We wrapped up the first 7 week online rangeland ecology management course and started the next course in early June. We will conduct field workshops for those who have taken the online course this summer. Also this summer online short courses on grazing management, inventory, monitoring and analysis, restoration, and maybe fire ecology will be launched. All online courses are being offered through OSU’s Continuing Education Branch. Tribal response has been very strong, if not overwhelming. For more information contact Yvette Gibson.
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International Report | June 2019
By Barb Hutchinson
University of Arizona
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Did you know? 500 million people in the world make more than 50% of their incomes from extensive livestock production where mobility is a management strategy. Rangelands occur across more than half of the world’s lands.
Updates to IYRP Website
- IYRP PowerPoint Presentation (CELEP; June 2019)
- CELEP Toolbox for Advocacy (2018; 20 pages)
- For Karamojong, Pastoralism is Our Future, Not Our Past (Uganda; May 27, 2019)
- Pastoralists as Family Farmers (CELEP, ILC, RIG, IYRP; 2019; in English, in French, in Spanish)
- Pastorialists as Family Farmers: some more details (CELEP, ILC, RIG, IYRP; 2019; 10 pages)
- Pastoralism & the SDGs: How supporting pastoralism can help realise the Sustainable Development Goals (CELEP, 2019)
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Launch of the Decade of Family Farming (including Global Action Plan) FAO’s Pastoralist Knowledge Hub was well represented at the Launch event. Pastoralist representatives from around the world contributed in to the panel sessions and discussion. In addition, Audace Kubwimana, Coordinator of the ILC Africa Regional Platform, raised pastoralism in his panel including the call for the IYRP. See the Agenda.
‘Global Plan of Action’ of the Decade of Family Farming includes 7 pillars and its relation to the SDGs
Pillar 1: Develop an enabling policy environment to strengthen family farming
Pillar 2: Support youth and ensure the generational sustainability of family farming
Pillar 3: Promote gender equity in family farming and the leadership role of rural women
Pillar 4: Strengthen family farmers’ organizations and their capacities to generate knowledge, represent farmers’ concerns and provide inclusive services in rural areas.
Pillar 5: Improve socio-economic inclusion, resilience and well-being of family farmers, rural households and communities.
Pillar 6: Promote sustainability of family farming for climate-resilient food systems.
Pillar 7: Strengthen the multidimensionality of family farming to promote social innovations contributing to territorial development and food systems that safeguard biodiversity, the environment and culture.
Proceedings of International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers This book represents the proceedings of the International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers: Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, which took place at FAO headquarters, 21-23 November 2018. FAO convened the symposium to provide inspiration for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Land, Biodiversity & Climate Conference (Burkina Faso) IUCN, in collaboration with partners, is organizing a conference on pastoralism and rangelands restoration and back to back with the International Civil Society Summit “Land, Biodiversity & Climate” “Desertif’action” from June 19th – 22th 2019 in Burkina Faso. Conference theme: “Pastoralism and Rangeland Restoration: a practitioners’ dialogue for increased investment in pastoral management of the rangelands”.
Children Living Near National Parks Are Healthier, More Prosperous National Geographic article finds that local people are benefiting from protected areas in the developing world.
How pastoralists can help us deal with the unexpected (Post on Pastoralism, Uncertainty, and Resilience blog) Ann Waters-Bayer offers a short video commentary, reflecting on the PASTRES project. Ann has been a major supporter of pastoral development and contributed to an important publication for PASTRES research, the manual ‘Planning with Pastoralists’, produced with Wolfgang Bayer, focusing on participatory methods. Read more of this post.
Guidance Note on “The United Nations and Land and Conflict” On Friday 15th of March 2019, Secretary-General António Guterres endorsed the Guidance Note on “The United Nations and Land and Conflict”, a milestone in the journey towards a sustained and coherent engagement of the UN System on land and conflict to prevent conflict and sustain peace. For the first time, a systematic review of the UN system’s engagement on land and conflict was undertaken and from this, a coherent approach to address land issues to prevent, mitigate and resolve conflicts was developed.
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Webinar Recording: ‘Innovations to Secure Pastoral Land Tenure and Governance’. This webinar was held on 28 March 2019 by the CGIAR and presented by Fiona Flintan, Rangelands Governance Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Ethiopia. She is also Technical Coordinator for International Land Coalition's Rangelands Initiative. Included are descriptions of innovations, successful practices, and lessons learned from her work on pastoral land tenure and governance over the past 15 years, with special focus on how research and technical support to governments used as entry point can lead to policy-impacting results.
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What is uncertainty and why does it matter? (PASTRES project) The Working Paper “What is uncertainty and why does it matter?” by Ian Scoones is an early output of the PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience) project in the STEPS Centre at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK. The paper examines the uncertainty we face today and asks whether we can learn from those who live with and from uncertainty – including pastoralists in marginal settings.
Call for short films for the “Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival” The "Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival" will be held on 17 September 2019 in Kassel, Germany. It will deepen understanding of how diverse peoples across the world gain their livelihoods from livestock production. The relationships of pastoralist people and animals and their food production systems reflect an intimate intertwining of culture, economy and ecology in harsh environments. Films of multiple genres - spanning documentary, narrative and experimental - made by pastoralists and/or about pastoralists offer are requested.
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Grazing to Heal the Earth
TEDxIdahoFalls
Provided by the University of Idaho Rangeland Center
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Wendy Pratt shares a rancher's experience to an age-old relationship of grazing animals and grassland ecosystems. She shows how utilizing the planet's naturally occurring cycles helps heal our world plus how one individual can make a difference. Watch the Tedx Talk.
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