The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension created the Nevada Range Management School (NRMS) in 2005 to improve the sustainability of grazed rangelands. In Nevada, USA, over 670 individuals have attended two or more of NRMS modules. In 2011, the United States Forest Service International Program (USFSIP) invited the NRMS cadre to help develop a similar curriculum for the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. Versions of this curriculum were also taught in 2014 to international participants in the USFSIP International Rangeland Seminar in 2014 and Agricultural Extension staff in the Republic of Georgia. The curriculum's foundation modules address plant growth, development, physiology and grazing, and the timing and duration of grazing, and routinely received high marks for clarifying important concepts and providing knowledge the recipients could use to improve grazing management. International participants also identified numerous approaches to apply this knowledge in their own countries. Observation and feedback from program participants in Morocco and the Republic of Georgia indicate that application of knowledge gains is difficult when there is little or no control of when livestock access to grazing lands.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.