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From: Whitepine chapter INPS whitepine.chapter at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:43:30 -0800
To: White Pine Chapter contacts whitepine.chapter at gmail.com
Subject: Range Management Symposium

FYI



Greetings from the Society for Range Management’s 2012 Annual Meeting
Committee,



The Pacific Northwest, which comprises British Columbia, Washington and
Oregon, and Idaho Sections of the Society for Range Management are the
hosts for the annual international meeting to be held in Spokane,
Washington, January 29 through February 3, 2012.  Borrowing from the Native
American winter dance tradition, the Annual Meeting Committee adopted the
Winter Dance theme “Lessons from the Past – Strategies for the Future” as
the foundation for our meeting.



In these financially challenging times, we will provide your organization
with the most efficient use of limited funding for training opportunities.
The Monday morning Plenary session will officially set the stage for a week
of workshops and training, symposia, poster presentations, technical tours,
and numerous net-working opportunities.  These sessions touch on the
technical, cultural and economic aspects of managing the rangeland resource


Three focus areas have been established for this meeting: Ecological Site
Descriptions (ESD), Native American (First Nations) Rangelands, and a
Ranchers’ forum.  Two ESD workshops focus on different levels of the
development and application of ESDs.  The two-day Native American (First
Nations) workshop continues work from the Billings SRM meeting to highlight
success stories and to address complex rangeland management issues on
tribal and/or traditional use lands.  The Ranchers’ Forum will break new
ground with thought-provoking topics such as ranch succession, crooked calf
syndrome, and sage grouse, all issues that cross management borders and
will be available on a webinar for the first time in SRM Annual Meeting
history!



In addition to the aforementioned activities, over 40 learning events will
be taking place addressing diverse topics including: conservation of
burrowing owls, climate change in North American rangelands, riparian
management, invasive species, fire ecology, wild and feral horses, and
collaborative management across stakeholder groups. A more detailed list of
topics is included on the following page.



We encourage you to provide this incredible training opportunity to your
employees.



Visit http://www.rangelands.org/spokane2012/ for more information.  Meeting
and hotel registration are open now.  *Early bird registration is
significantly cheaper than late and on-site registration with an upcoming
deadline of December 18th!.*



Sincerely,

SRM Spokane 2012 AMC Chairmen - Kevin Guinn & Will Keller, Pacific
Northwest Section, and J.D. Wulfhorst, Idaho Section







*Symposia, Workshops, Forums, & Special Sessions Titles:*

* *

·         Alternative methods in Weed Control: Use of Biocontrols
(Symposium)

·         Bringing History into Range Management (Symposium)

·         Climate Change and North American Rangelands (Symposium)

·         Free Roaming Wild and Feral Horses (Symposium)

·         Mongolian Rangeland Development and Management (Symposium)

·         National Early Detection Rapid Response Network (Symposium)

·         Status and Conservation of Burrowing Owls (Forum)

·        Teaching to Learn and Learning to Teach (Symposium)

·        Toolbox for Invasive Species Management and Native Restoration in
Rangelands (Symposium)

·        American Seed Trade Association: Seed for Reclamation,
Restoration, Rangeland, and Pasture – You have questions, we have answers
(Workshop)

·        Assessment, Monitoring, and Management of Riparian Communities
(Workshop)

·        Available for Your Foraging Pleasure: Rangeland Knowledge
Resources (Workshop)

·        Ecological Site Development and State and Transition Model
Development (Workshop)

·        Effective Communication for Rangeland Management and other
Specialists (Workshop – BLM)

·        Fire Regime Condition class: Concepts and Methods (Workshop)

·        How to Employ Targeted Grazing on Public Lands (Workshop)

·        Rangeland Energy Position Statement (Workshop)

·        Rangeland Technology and Equipment: Establishing Sagebrush
(Workshop)

·        Technical Service Provider Training (Workshop)

·        Using Ecological Site Descriptions as a Decision Making Tool
(Workshop)

·        Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (Workshop)

·         Disturbance, Resilience and Thresholds in Sagebrush Ecosystems
(Forum)

·         Ecologically Based Invasive Grass Management: Science You Can Use
(Forum)

·         Native American Rangeland: Tribal Perspectives (Forum)

·         Rangeland Collaboration: Ranch and Landscape Scale (Forum)

·         Ranchers Forum – Sage Grouse, Ranch Succession, Crooked Calk
Syndrome (Forum)

·         SRM-GLCI Riparian Grazing Forum (Forum)

·         Successful Programs on Tribal Lands – Northwest (Forum)

·         Aspen Ecology and Management (Special Session)

·         Fire Ecology of Rangelands and Dry Forests (Special Session)



*Additional Technical Session Titles:*

·         Ecological Sites and Thresholds

·         Economics, Social, and Policy

·         Education and Extension

·         Fire Ecology and Management

·         Grazing Ecology and Management (two ½ day sections)

·         Invasive Species/Weed Management (two ½ day sections)

·         Inventory, Monitoring, and Assessment

·         Range Ecology

·         Rangeland Plants/Plant Physiology

·         Remote Sensing and Technology

·         Riparian Systems/Water

·         Vegetation Management and Restoration

·         Weed Biology and Ecology

·         Wildlife Habitat and Management

·         Other (does not fit under existing titles)

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