Workshop
Soil Health and Management Workshop
Cottonwood Guest Ranch HC 62 Box 1300, O'Neil Route, Wells, NV, United StatesFacilitator: Cody Spencer Explore Cottonwood Ranch's journey to improve soil health and restore the water cycle on irrigated ground and arid rangeland. At the end of the two days, attendees will gain and grow: A deeper understanding of the role that soil microbes play in profitable production Steps to regenerate soils to lift bottom lines…
Holistic Regenerative Ranching Workshop
Cottonwood Guest Ranch HC 62 Box 1300, O'Neil Route, Wells, NV, United StatesFacilitator: Spencer Smith, Rancher & International Holistic Management Consultant Put your Livestock to Work: Build Soil, Build Wealth The four-day course will cover the below topics with additional subtopics as appropriate: Holistic planned grazing How to identify management factors on a landscape and enter them into a grazing plan How to plan for all the…
Virtual Fence Workshop
Sutter Creek Auditorium 18 Main St., Sutter Creek, CA, United StatesVF is an emerging technology that contains livestock with a reduced need for physical fences. Ranchers create virtual boundaries on digital maps, like Google Maps, that GPS collars detect. The collars then use sound and mild electric stimulus to contain livestock. This workshop will explore VF’s practicality, effectiveness, and applications for new and improved herd…
State-and-Transition Models for Management of Rangeland Ecosystems
Cottonwood Guest Ranch HC 62 Box 1300, O'Neil Route, Wells, NV, United StatesFacilitators: Tamzen Stringham, Ph.D., Rangeland Scientist, University of Nevada Reno Lucas Phipps, Rangeland Ecologist, University of Nevada Reno This two-day course will focus on a process to classify rangeland landscapes into ecologically-meaningful units for management and restoration. The course will include lectures on ecological processes, resilience concepts, state-and-transition modeling, disturbance ecology and monitoring/ inventory tools.…
Graze-a-thon
El Sueño Ranch Clines Corners, NM, United StatesGrazing planning doesn’t have to be daunting! Join us for a one-day intensive on increasing soil health, land productivity, and profitability with adaptive grazing management. We’ll see how these principles are applied at El Sueño Ranch and learn how to read the conditions of the land with simple monitoring techniques in order to assess forage…
Klamath Wolf-Livestock Conflict Reduction Workshop
Klamath Event Center 3531 S 6th St, Klamath Falls, OR, United StatesWildlife Services and Western Landowners Alliance are hosting a two-day interactive wolf-livestock conflict reduction workshop at the Klamath Event Center on August 23rd. Presenters include livestock producers and wildlife management agency staff from MN, MT, WY, ID, CA and OR. Please join us for this incredible opportunity for peer-to-peer conversations and to hear how folks…