Cottonwood Guest Ranch
Stockmanship School
Cottonwood Guest Ranch HC 62 Box 1300, O'Neil Route, Wells, NV, United StatesFacilitator: Dawn Hnatow Years spent interning and working with Bud Williams and owner/founder of Cattle Up Stockmanship 50% Hands-on and 50% Classroom Learning Topics to be covered: Stockmanship- economic benefits and fundamentals Driving Corral work Facilities Fenceline weaning Lodging out Placing cattle on range without fences Solving handling challenges: riparia loafers, bunch quitters Price: $1000/person…
Cottonwood Ranch Riparian/Creek Workshop
Cottonwood Guest Ranch HC 62 Box 1300, O'Neil Route, Wells, NV, United StatesFacilitators: Carol Evans & Dr. Sherman Swanson How to see a Creek, Tools for Improving Creek Functions and Creating Your Story With pressure to having functioning Riparian areas, understanding, monitoring, and managing these oases is vital to the diversity of wildlife that rely upon them. Livestock can be powerful tool to transform creeks into resilient…
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…
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.…
2023 Sage Grouse and Birding Festival
Cottonwood Guest Ranch HC 62 Box 1300, O'Neil Route, Wells, NV, United StatesCottonwood Ranch is hosting the 2023 Sage Grouse and Birding Festival. This event will take place on our private and public ranch lands located on the sage grouse higher priority habitat in Northern Nevada. $250/ person (price includes meals and tours/entertainment scheduled)