What does soil health mean to a rancher? This presentation will outline a few of the many different perspectives that ranchers have when the words, "soil health" are mentioned. The National Grazing Land Coalition is a nationwide consortium of individuals and organizations working together to maintain and improve the management and the health of the Nation's grazing lands. The NatGLC is founded on the principles of voluntary action by those who own and manage grazing lands, and is well suited for taking the pulse on rancher perspectives regarding soil health through their experience in applying grazing management strategies that influence soil health. NatGLC also has interest in the development and use of grazing land technology and conservation tools that best assist ranchers in managing grazing lands. Tools that assist grazing managers whose objectives include improving or maintaining soil health will be discussed including the rangeland health assessment and ecological site description.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.