Too often we work on issues that are critical to us and we are passionate about, but we lose sight of the big picture. Rangelands are not only about managing for a single species, grazing use, or controlling invasives. It is easy for our focus to become "control cheatgrass", "get more sage grouse", or "graze more cattle". Focusing on the big picture can be overwhelming and abstract, but speakers in this symposium will welcome the challenge. It will not "think outside the box" but will present issues and solutions that cannot be defined within a singular box. Rangelands are big, the challenges are big, and the opportunity to make things better is big. This symposium will consist of 4 invited speakers presenting innovative, overarching solutions for the complex problems facing rangelands today. It will conclude with a panel discussion, and we encourage attendees to bring their big questions and solutions. Our goal is to avoid arguing about the details of how to build a better fence but to explore if we need a fence at all. 1:00 pm Introduction 1:10 pm Opening Speaker 1:50 pm Michael Wilbur Vice President of Business Development and Data Services, Wilbur-Ellis 2:30 pm BREAK 2:45 pm Gregg Simonds President, Open Range Consulting 3:25 pm Final Speaker 4:05 pm Wrap Up 4:15 pm Panel Discussion
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.