UPCOMING AND PAST EVENTS
Gatherings, rendezvous, and confluences of ideas, among people who love living in the working wildlands of the West.
Change on the Range
2024 annual meeting of the Society for Range Management
I’ll be leading a Campfire Conversation on rangeland livestock-carnivore coexistence.
Jackson Hole Wildlife Symposium
Building successful strategies for conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Panel: What would coexistence with large carnivores look like?
Wolves on the Horizon: A Community Dialogue
A panel offering perspectives on wolf restoration and management in Colorado, featuring wildlife biologists, ag economist, ranchers, wolf advocates, outdoor enthusiasts, and more.
Living With Wolves: Coexistence in Colorado
A free, educational, artistic, and entertaining evening about wolf reintroduction in the state and Roaring Fork Valley, including film, dance, and music. It culminates with a panel discussion and Q&A session about the reality of living with wolves.
Community Dialog at Stanko Ranch
Come learn about Western Slope perspectives during a dynamic weekend of conversation, field demonstrations, and other engaging programming designed to foster mutual awareness and understanding about sustainable ranching and living with predators.
5th Bud Williams Memorial Stockmanship Symposium
Navigating physical and cultural terrain of rangelands with stockmanship principles.
Western Colorado Food & Farm Forum: Farming and Ranching in the New Normal
Ranching with wolves: Lessons from the Northern Rockies.
Living with Wolves: National Geographic Photographic Exhibit & Community Conversation
Wolves and agriculture: Range management practices to reduce predation risk
The inaugural Range Practicum: A Hands-on Land and Livestock Training
Hands-on training including low-stress livestock handling, horse and mule packing, prescribed burning, soil texturing, and pesticide sprayer calibration; wild horse and state-of-the-art reclamation equipment demonstrations; range monitoring; and the Women in Ranching Forum.
4th Bud Williams Memorial Stockmanship Symposium
Asking better questions and engaging more people.
SRM 2020: A New Look: Transformation and Translation
The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management featured a new approach to transforming and translating rangeland science, including plenary and “campfire sessions,” a Healthy Grasslands Expo, and the inaugural Range Practicum.
Durango Wolf Symposium
Is there a future for wolves in Colorado? The science and ecology of Canis lupus.
Leopold Lecture: Livestock Grazing in Harmony with Land, Wolves and Grizzly Bears
Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Residency
3rd Bud Williams Memorial Stockmanship Symposium
Stockmanship: Examples of practical rangeland management with low-stress livestock handling.
2nd Bud Williams Memorial Stockmanship Symposium
Stockmanship: Principles, practice & wildlife-rangeland benefits.
Shining Horizons: Ranching for resilience on Rocky Mountain rangelands
Photographs by Matt Barnes
1st Bud Williams Memorial Stockmanship Symposium
Stockmanship: Managing rangelands with effective low-stress livestock handling.
Shining Horizons: Ranching for resilience on Rocky Mountain rangelands
Photographs by Matt Barnes
Strategic Grazing Management for Complex Adaptive Systems
A symposium combining the applied science and the art of management to understand how multiple “sides” of the longstanding debate over adaptive multiple-paddock grazing are true, but partial.
Shining Horizons: Ranching for resilience on Rocky Mountain rangelands
Photographs by Matt Barnes
Sustainable Rangelands Through Low-Input Grassfed Production
Sustainably-raised animal products and planned grazing on working landscapes.
Prescribed Grazing and Herding for Rangeland Health
Low-stress livestock handling for grazing management: animals in the right place, at the right time, for the right reasons. Workshop with Guy Glosson.
Conservation After Beetle Kill
The mountain pine beetle: Dead trees – now what? Firewise practices, defensible space, CSFS burn program, erosion and revegetation.