Roaring Springs Ranch is a cow-calf operation in southeast Oregon operating on over 1 million acres.� The ranch works toward maintaining healthy wildlife populations and range conditions while utilizing excess forage for beef production.� The ranch has a strong history of active management, implementing projects including landscape-scale juniper cutting and prescribed burning, riparian restoration, collaboration with the scientific community on many range and wildlife research projects, and participation in candidate conservation agreements with assurances (CCAA).� Enrolling in a CCAA gives private landowners opportunities to be proactive in conservation work and to receive benefits for good stewardship.� However, tradeoffs include privacy concerns and potential financial costs. �The ranch enrolled in the Harney County Sage-Grouse CCAA in 2015 despite potential tradeoffs.� Realized benefits, examples of conservation actions taken, and long term goals relating to this CCAA will be discussed. ��The ranch�s enrollment in this CCAA has thus far been beneficial for the ranch and for the conservation of sage-grouse in this area.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.