This workshop is to help inform, invigorate and inspire the up and coming rangeland professionals of today's world. We want to help young rangeland professionals understand the future of our industry, required skill sets, what potential employers are looking for in new hires now and how the Society of Rangeland Management and the Young Professionals Conclave can help. Almost 15 years have passed since a series of articles came out in Rangelands talking about the future of rangeland professionals and rangeland science. These articles demonstrated the need to advance range science by incorporating other disciplines and better understanding of the constituents using the land. In June of 2012 Rangelands published a special issue on learning and teaching rangeland science to help improve and prepare students, teachers and federal employees for the demands of range science today. Rangeland science has always been interdisciplinary but today it is necessary that we prepare the future rangeland professionals for their careers whether it is as a land manager, consultant, researcher, extension agent/educator or rancher by providing the best science and policy information to help them succeed. Our workshop will provide up-to-date information on how students and young professionals can be successful in a field in rangeland science and ecology. Participants will be provided opportunities to learn from and interact with successful rangeland professionals from consultancies, federal government, ranches and academia along with members of the SRM Board of Directors and YPC.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.