Land Stewardship in Eastern NM – Opportunities and Updates on Farm Bill Programs and the Lesser Prairie Chicken

Name: Land Stewardship in Eastern NM – Opportunities and Updates on Farm Bill Programs and the Lesser Prairie Chicken
Start: 2021-08-11T11:00:00-06:00
End: 2021-08-11T12:30:00-06:00
Location: online

Nov 02 - Nov 04 2021

Land Stewardship in Eastern NM – Opportunities and Updates on Farm Bill Programs and the Lesser Prairie Chicken

Western Landowners Alliance and the New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts (NMACD) invite you to join us for a webinar on Wednesday, August 11th (11:00-12:30 MT). Presenters will share on opportunities for Eastern NM landowners to enhance their stewardship of working lands through technical and financial assistance from NRCS and FSA programs. In addition, we will be hearing from land managers on their proven strategies and get an update on the Lesser Prairie Chicken from USFWS.

Panelists

Bret Riley, Rancher, NM

Kyle Dillard, Rancher, NM

Jesse Juen, Project Manager, NMACD

Venue

online

Facilitation Team

Whit Hibbard

Whit is a fourth generation Montana cattle rancher, publisher/editor of Stockmanship Journal (www.stockmanshipjournal.com), and a former national park mounted ranger. He writes a stockmanship series for Drovers and On Pasture, and teaches low-stress livestock handling clinics all over the Western U.S and Central Canada.

Bre Owens

WLA Stewardship Coordinator

Breanna Owens lives in Los Molinos, California with her sons Will and Clyde. She runs a small cattle and sheep operation based in Tehama County, California utilizing mostly leased private and public lands. Bre grew up in Northern California on a cow-calf ranch, attended Chico State and Colorado State University—Fort Collins. She is motivated by a love for the agriculture industry…for the people, land and livestock that are a part of it. She is inspired by the current conversations and opportunities in highlighting the linkages between the agriculture and conservation communities. Prior to joining WLA as stewardship coordinator, Bre has been engaged with the Conflict Reduction Consortium, Women in Ranching, and the On Land editorial board. Most recently she worked with the California State University—Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems, along with working with a ranching-conservation collaborative called Working Circle Proactive Stewardship that developed as a result of wolves expanding their range to Northern California. Prior to that she worked with Point Blue Conservation Science as a Senior Range Ecologist and Program Coordinator for the Rangeland Watershed Initiative, a partnership program with NRCS. She has been a mentor through Quivira’s New Agrarian Program and is a California Certified Rangeland Manager. She sits on the Board of Directors for Holistic Management International, serves as the Board President of the California Rangeland Conservation Coalition. She is working with the Jefferson Center for Holistic Management (a Savory Institute hub) as a ranch participant in the Ecological Outcome Verification program.

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