Matt Barnes | Shining Horizons
From the Land of Shining Mountains to the western horizon to the confluence of Earth and Sky.
Matt at a corral in grizzly country, western Montana | Photo credit: Susan Kucera
Welcome
I'm a conservation scientist and a scientific conservationist, and an explorer of ideas, mostly about land, water, wildlife, and people in the American West. My business, Shining Horizons Land Management offers rangeland science and management services. My non-profit work, Reintegrating Wildness: an integral approach to rangeland stewardship and coexistence with large carnivores (a project of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative) involves promoting human-carnivore coexistence, especially livestock-carnivore coexistence, on the working wildlands of the West.
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Shining Horizons Land Management
Learn about my background as a ranch manager and services available including ranch management, grazing planning, and rangeland assessment/inventory and monitoring.
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Reintegrating Wildness, a project of the NRCC
Learn about my non-profit work, a project of NRCC, where my main focus is the restoration of and coexistence with large carnivores, including preventing conflicts with livestock.
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Conservation Science Publications
Applied science for working wildlands: conserving and managing the wild and domestic on the western range. And my own experiences and perspectives on wildlands, wildlife, and wild waters.
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