Point Blue Conservation Science in partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has implemented a Rangeland Watershed Initiative in 22 counties in California and Nevada. Partner Biologists work in NRCS offices to assist land owners and managers increase soil health, water-holding capacity, and biodiversity as well as production on California rangelands. This Partner Biologist model relies heavily on building trusting relationships with private landowners. One of our goals is to cultivate and promote Leopoldian Land Stewards, based on a suite of characteristics that demonstrate an individual�s desire and ability to treat the land as a member of the community and maintain healthy functioning ecosystems for future generations to come. By tapping into ranchers� inherit husbandry skills and family legacies, partner biologists encourage land owners extend these principles to the landscapes they work and rely upon. Ranchers face many challenges in today�s world. Partner Biologists work with them to help address an array of these challenges. By working together toward common goals of healthy landscapes and thriving communities, we are helping to promote and conserve the unique and diverse rangelands and the families and communities that live and work on them.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.