Want to enhance your land stewardship skills and contribute to a more resilient ecosystem? Join Grazing School of the West & White Buffalo Land Trust for this regionally-focused field lab designed for graziers, land managers and owners, agriculturalists, conservationists, and fire professionals seeking practical tools and strategies to integrate livestock grazing into agricultural and fire-adapted landscapes. Over four days, participants will delve into grazing techniques tailored to diverse regional ecological contexts, including chaparral, grasslands, orchards and vineyards, while addressing key goals such as fire readiness, climate change mitigation, watershed management, soil health, and biodiversity enhancement.

Through a combination of field demonstrations, classroom sessions, and collaborative learning, this intensive equips participants with the tools to make grazing a cornerstone of effective landscape stewardship, emphasizing a resilient ecosystem, reduced wildfire risk, and economic opportunities.

* This course completes the Context and Foundations modules of Holistic Management that can count towards accreditation.

What You Will Learn

Through a combination of hands-on demonstrations and engaging classroom sessions, you’ll gain practical tools and strategies for success. This course covers the foundations of Holistic Management, grazing charts and stockmanship for non-traditional grazing contexts, ecological monitoring and invasive species management, fire ecology and using grazing as part of a toolkit of varied vegetation-management approaches, managing livestock in crop systems and other contexts, funding opportunities, financial planning tools, creating grazing contracts with public and private entities and more!

Learn to:

Mitigate wildfire risk and promote ecosystem health

Integrate grazing techniques tailored to chaparral, grasslands, and vineyards

Enhance soil health and biodiversity

Increase the economic viability of your operations