At the 2013 Society for Range Management annual meeting, a symposium on Women as Change Agents in the World's Rangelands highlighted the gap in research on women's roles in rangeland stewardship. To address this gap, we studied women's roles in ranching and rangeland management in New Mexico and Arizona. We conducted life history interviews with 15 women in Arizona and New Mexico ranging from age 28 to 85, to document women's changing roles in ranching, rangeland management and ranching communities. We used narrative analysis of the autobiographical interview transcripts to explore how ranching women experienced and promoted changes in ranching over the course of their lifetimes.  This interview present the challenges and acheivements these women experience in complex production, stewardship, and social reproductive roles.  This study has implications for understanding and serving the needs of female decision-makers on rangelands in the Southwestern United States.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.