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…
Oregon USDA’s Beginning Farmer Ranchers: In the Know Webinar
Are you new to farming or ranching, thinking about becoming a producer or serve this audience in your work? You’re invited to Oregon USDA’s Beginning Farmer Ranchers: In The Know virtual events 2023 and 2024. Oregon’s Beginning Farmer Rancher (BFR) Team and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) small farm and organic specialists are offering opportunities to learn…
Global Environmental Markets and Finance Summit
Westin Denver Downtown 1672 Lawrence Street, Denver, CO, United StatesGlobal EMF drives progress in private sector solutions for environmental outcomes by connecting, convening, and inspiring high-level leaders of change and implementation for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) across: natural resources (carbon, water and biodiversity); industry sectors; resource agencies; providers and supporters of solutions, impactors and funders; and the world. Global EMF seeks to close critical voids…
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…
Taos Farm & Ranch Tour
Taos County Ecoomic Development Center 1021 Salazar Rd, Taos, NM, United StatesCALLING NEW MEXICO FARMERS, RANCHERS AND ALL INTERESTED IN AGRICULTURE! We invite you to join on July 22 for an afternoon filled with farm and ranch tours that specialize in biologically diverse, high-intensity, regenerative and sustainable practices. Meet at 12:30 pm at Taos County Economic Development Center's parking lot at 1021 Salazar Rd, Taos, NM.…
Wolves & Water: Private Lands and the Future of the West
New Belgium Brewing Co. 500 Linden St, Fort Collins, CO, United StatesJoin WLA in Fort Collins, Colorado for a conversation about a "New Era of Conservation" On Tuesday, July 25th, from 5:30 – 7 PM, at New Belgium Brewing, 500 Linden St, Fort Collins, Western Landowners Alliance CEO Lesli Allison along with team members Hallie Mahowald and Louis Wertz, will be discussing the need to bridge…
Red Ants Pants Music Festival
Red Ants Pants Music Festival Jackson Road, White Sulful Springs, MT, United StatesThe Red Ants Pants Music Festival is a 100% homegrown, volunteer-driven event based in a community of 900 people to bring good folks together to celebrate rural Montana. Red Ants Pants Foundation is a non-profit with the mission to develop and expand leadership roles for women, preserve and support working family farms and ranches and…
Grand Junction: A Conversation over Beers about the New Era of Conservation
Kannah Creek Brewing Company 1960 N. 12th Street, Grand JunctionOn Tuesday, July 27th at Kannah Creek Brewing Co. in Grand Junction, Western Landowners Alliance CEO Lesli Allison will be discussing the need to bridge our urban and rural divide in order to achieve greater conservation of the West, illustrating the role our private lands play in securing a future for all of us. “In…
In Durango: A Conversation about a New Era of Conservation
Strater Hotel 699 Main Avenue, Durango, CO, United StatesWe are living at the historic intersection of agriculture and conservation. Surely, water, wolves, wildfires and invasive species are examples of the challenges we face, but the issue is bigger, broader. Does it sometimes feel like we’re coming apart more than we’re coming together? Bridging the urban/rural divide has never been more important as we…