It is our sincere pleasure to announce the winners of the 2018 SRM Graduate Student Oral Paper and Poster Competitions. The First and Second Place winners for each of the Competitions are: MS ORAL PRESENTATION: 1st Place: Torrey Ritter, Montana State University “Ecosystem Pioneers: Examining Beaver Dispersal and Settlement Site Selection to Improve Riparian Restoration…
Read More[caption id="attachment_3745" align="alignright" width="240"] February Issue of Rangelands Now Available![/caption] Rangelands, April 2018 Rangelands is proud to support the Society’s priority of developing skilled and talented young rangeland professionals by publishing outstanding research and synthesis articles developed by student authors. The Rangeland Cup, a yearly team problem-solving competition, challenges student teams to work collaboratively to critically evaluate current topics in rangeland ecology…
Read MoreJoel Brown and Amy Ganguli, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force Co-Chairs Diversity is an important part of rangeland management. Whether it’s new forage species for livestock production, habitat diversity to support wildlife or genetic diversity to adapt to climate change, the theme that diversity is the key to adapting and thriving is a common one. Those…
Read MoreBarry Irving SRM President, 2018 We in SRM have several start and end times during our year. We have the membership year that now follows a calendar year, we have the fiscal year to hold and plan our budget and finances, and we have the Annual Meeting year that runs…
Read MoreLarry D. Howery, SRM President As I write this we are a little over a month away from our Annual Meeting in Sparks, NV! If you haven’t already, please register and make your travel plans. You have only a few more days to take advantage of the early registration rate…
Read MoreBarry Irving, SRM Vice President As I sit down to pen this column, I’m sitting in an uncomfortable airport because of a weather cancellation of my flight. So, I am a little more challenged than usual today. Before I start, I’d like to send our collective thank you to the…
Read MoreJess Peterson, SRM EVP Greetings SRM Members, There are some great articles in this edition of Rangelands News, so I don’t want to command too much of your attention and time. I just wanted to pass along a few updates, along with my sincere thanks for both your membership and…
Read MoreEddie Alford, SRM Director I am beginning my third year serving on the Board of Directors for SRM and each year my goal is to focus on a topic which might spark a new idea or innovation that will help people in our profession; whether it is in academia, administration,…
Read MoreDavid Brischke, VP AZ Section Area Assistant Agent, ANR Mohave & Coconino County Cooperative Extension The University of Arizona The Arizona Section of the Society for Range Management (SRM) embarked on a theme of “The Year of Native Rangelands” for our annual events this year. Arizona has almost 20 million…
Read More[caption id="attachment_3305" align="alignright" width="227"] ama_70_5_cover.indd[/caption] (Volume 70, Issue 5, September 2017, Pages 529-539) Read the Editor’s Choice Award: A way of thanking authors for their research. Potential Climate Change Impacts on Four Biophysical Indicators of Cattle Production from Western US Rangelands For each issue of REM, we chose one paper as the…
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