Leadership

Committee Chair: Jason Pindell
Chair Email: Jason.c.pindell@usda.gov

BoD Rep: Chuck Butterfield
BoD Rep Email:

Overview and Introduction

The purpose of the Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring Committee is to coordinate the Society for Range Management’s (SRM) efforts to provide professional leadership related to the development and implementation of rangeland asssessment and monitoring by government agencies, other organizations, and private individuals and to assist the Board of Directors in implementing SRM rangeland assessment policies. SRM’s aim is to insure that such methods are objective, scientifically sound, and consistent with professional experience.

Publications

• New Concepts for Assessment of Rangeland Condition by the Task Group on Unity in Concepts and Terminology. Journal of Rangeland Management 48(3):271–282, May 1995. (84K)
• Evaluating Rangeland Sustainability: The Evolving Technology by the Task Group on Unity in Concepts and Terminology. Rangelands, 17(3):85–92, June 1995. (35K)
• Does Size Matter? Animal Units and Animal Months by the SRM RAM Committee;  Rangelands, Vol 39, Issue 1, February, 2017
• Guidelines and Terminology for Range Inventories & Monitoring, by the Range Inventory Standardization Committee (RISC), February 1983, Albuquerque, NM
• Utilization and Residual Measurements-Tools for Adaptive Rangeland Management, by the SRM Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring Committee, October 2018

Business

Documents & Publications

View the Society’s current policy and position statements

Term Expires End of 2022 Meeting

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