ELEVENTH ANNUAL
GRAZING LANDS FORUM

-Sustaining the Landscape--Sustaining the Lifestyle-

 

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11th Annual Grazing Lands Forum--Program

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.Registration
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.Opening Session, Explanation of Program, Introductions. GLF President, Jim Fox and Fee Busby, Program Chair
9:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.An Overview of the Situation--Landscape - Lifestyle. Speaker: Fee Busby, Rangeland Ecology and Management Consultant, Winrock International, Little Rock, Arkansas.
9:40 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.Break
10:00 a.m.Community Actions to sustain Grazing Land Landscapes and Lifestyles
10:00 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.Noxious Weeds versus Multiple Use. Speaker: Leonard Lake, Nez Perce National Forest.
10:40 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.Brush, Water Supply, Livestock, and Wildlife. Speaker: Phillip Wright, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Tim Steffens, Texas Agriculture Extension Service, Seco Creek Watershed at Hondo, Texas.
11:20 a.m. - noonPrivate Land Owners Working Together to Make Life Better. Speaker: Jim Gerrish, Green Hill Farm Project, Missouri.
noon - 1:00 p.m.Lunch (Room TBA Hall of the States)
1:00 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.Holistic Watershed Management for the Gila Watershed. Speaker: Bill Brandau, USDI, Bureau of Land Management, Safford, Arizona.
1:40 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.Livestock, Wildlife, and Water Quality. Speaker: Pat McCarty, Owl Mountain Partnership, Walden, Colorado.
2:20 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.Panel: Policies and Actions Needed to Sustain Grazing Land Landscapes and Lifestyles. Speakers:



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American Farm Bureau -- Herb Manig
American Cattlemen's Beef Associates -- Bill Myers
American Farmland Trust -- Ralph Grossi
National Association of Conservation Districts -- Gerald Talbert
The Nature Conservancy -- Diane Vosick
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.Discussion
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.Overview and Summary. Speaker: Jim Schwartz, Coordinated Resource Management Specialist, Western Governor's Conference, Denver, Colorado.
5:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.Closing. GLF President, Jim Fox
5:00 p.m.Social

 

Last updated November 5, 1996.