Pathways for Restoration and Conservation

January 16, 2009
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Holiday Inn, Boise Airport – Boise, ID
3300 Vista Ave. Boise, ID 83705

Everyone interested in land conservation and management is invited to this workshop and Annual Meeting of the Idaho Section - Society for Range Management

Presented by Rangeland Ecology and Management
at the University Idaho
and the Idaho Section - Society for Range Management.

 

  Registration
On-time Registration Extended 'till Friday January 9th

Hotel

Info for SRM Members

Questions?    -- Contact Lovina Roselle

(208) 885-0160
or
lovina@uidaho.edu

~~~ Program Overview ~~~

Registration (8:00 to 9:00 a.m.)

Morning Session

 

• Welcome: Finding the "Right" Approach: Restoration, Reclamation, Revegetation, Remediation

(Brendan Brazee ‐President of the Idaho Section SRM)

• Planting Considerations ‐ A Growing Concern (Dan Ogle ‐ Natural Resources Conservation Service)

• Life After Planting ‐ Protecting Your Investment (Mark Stannard ‐Natural Resources Conservation Serv.)

• Options for Pasture Renovation (Glenn Shewmaker ‐ University of Idaho)

Break with Booths of Restoration Resources

 

Boise Botanical Garden, Conservation Districts, University of Idaho Extension,

NRCS Plant Materials Centers, and others.

 

Morning Session -- Continued

 

• Targeted Grazing for Landscape Enhancement (Karen Launchbaugh ‐University of Idaho)

• Cheatgrass and other annual grasses ‐ What Can be Done? (Roger Shelley ‐ Agric. Research Service)

 

Luncheon –Included in Registration

The Way Forward for Land Conservation

Will WhelanIdaho Nature Conservancy

 

Afternoon Session

 

• Case Studies ‐‐ Real People on the Ground (Michael Young ‐ Idaho Fish and Game)

• Step by Step ‐ Restoration Lessons from the Real World (Kelly Crane ‐ University of Idaho)

• Scaling Up to the Landscape (SageSTEP Program)

• A Cooperative Science Paradigm to Answer the BIG Questions in the Great Basin (Stuart

Hardegree ‐ Agric. Research Service)

• Closing Remarks (Brendan Brazee)