Dan Scott Ranch Management Program Seminars

Today's ranch managers must know how to manage employees, interpret policy and effectively comment on an environmental impact statement as much as they know how to select a replacement heifer or design a grazing system. Seminars will be held monthly on the last Tuesday beginning in August through May (excluding September & December) and are open to students, staff, & faculty from all disciplines, ranching professionals, and the community.

2020-2021 Natural Resource & Policy Seminar Series

• August 25th, 2020 - Water rights: applications for land managers  (Ann Schwend, MT DNRC)
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• October 20th, 2020 - Livestock Grazing on Public Lands—Things Every Rancher Should Know (Dr. Jeff Mosley)
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• November 17th, 2020 - The complexity of managing wildlife populations (Lindsey Parsons, MT FWP)
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• January 26th, 2021 - The Endangered Species Act and CCAAs (Jodi Bush, US FWS and Kelsey Molloy, TNC)
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• February 23rd, 2021 - The NEPA process and opportunities for public participation (Chelcie Cargill, MTFB)
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• March 30th, 2021 12:00pm - Natural resource planning and cost-share conservation programs (TBD NRCS)
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• April 27th, 2021 - Noxious weed law and the growing threat from invasive species (Jasmine Reimer, MT DOA)
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• May 25th, 2021 - Grass banking - a tool for increasing forage resources (Brian Martin, TNC and Colter Devries)
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