Society for Range Management meeting & Water quality video
This year the Society for Range Management meeting was virtual to reduce covid risk. A virtual meeting definitely has some drawbacks — one of the best things about these events is getting to meet people interested rangeland management. But SRM did a great job setting up a savvy interaction platform where people could connect, learn, and hear about each others’ management and research projects.
At the meeting, Working Lands Conservation’s Lead Scientist, Dr. Kris Hulvey, presented research on how grazing timing and duration can be used to balance livestock production with the sustainable supplies of other valued rangeland ecosystem serivces. In particular, Kris discusses how grazing timing and duration affected water quality in rangeland streams. Each summer WLC collects water quality across 13 rangeland streams in Northern Utah, two times a month from May - October. The streams we monitor span pastures grazed for different durations (i.e., short to long timeframes) and different timings (i.e., early season to late season grazing). If you are interested in listening to our talk you can access it here: Using grazing timing and duration to manage water quality in semi-arid rangelands. Please contact us if you want to learn more about this reaseach or have questions!
Since you’re here… we want to share some links to info and talks on a topic we really enjoyed learning about this year at SRM — the development of new monitoring tools that use satalite data to look at landscape level trends across rangelands: check out the Rangeland Analysis Platform app, or these short talks about the platform and its use: talk 1 (5 minutes), talk 2 (8 minutes).
Enjoy!