Supported by Western SARE

Title	Format	Date
Intro to Colorado Rangelands and Range Science	Webinar	Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Grazing Management	Webinar	Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring	Webinar	Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Drought, Invasive species, and restoration	Webinar	Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Adaptive management, bringing it all together	Webinar	Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Regional workshops + Field days	Face-to-face	-Eastern Plains – Summer 2022 -Northwest Colorado – Summer 2023 –Regional Workshop – Spring 2024 -CO Environmental Plant Materials Center Tour – Summer 2024

Readings & Resources

CSU Extension Range Management website

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Session 1:

• Recording of Session 1 (except breakout sessions)
• Websites
• Glossary of range management terms (including definition of “rangeland”)
• Description of types of rangeland, in Colorado and beyond
• including: shortgrass prairie, sagebrush steppe, and pinyon-juniper woodland
• Website with tons of information about rangeland ecology and more
• ESD access website

Readings

• Fuhlendorf and Engle– 2001- Restoring heterogeneity on rangelands (a classic)
• Fuhlendorf et al.– 2017- Heterogeneity as the basis for rangeland management (dense but worth it)
• Bestelmeyer and Briske– 2012- Grand challenges for resilience-based management of rangelands
• Reid et al – 2014- Dynamics and resilience of rangelands and pastoral peoples around the world (international perspective)
• Provenza et al– 2013- Complex Creative Systems
• New Tools for Land Management: Putting Ecological Site Descriptions to Use on Your Ranch
• Interagency Ecological Site Handbook (sections 2 and 5 have good information on ESDs)

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Session 2:

Recording of Session 2

Websites

• Stocking rate calculator
• Rangeland Analysis Platform

Readings

• Grissom and Steffens– 2013- Case Study: Adaptive Grazing Management at Rancho Largo Cattle Company
• Bailey and Provenza– 2008- Mechanisms determining large herbivore distribution
• Sanderson et al– 2020- Cattle, conservation, and carbon in the western Great Plains
• Milchunas et al– 1988- A generalized model of the effects of grazing by large herbivores

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Session 3:

Recording of Session 3

Websites

• Rangelands Gateway- Rangeland Monitoring

Readings

• Monitoring Manual for Grassland, Shrubland, and Savanna Ecosystems
• Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health, v5
• Colorado Rangeland Monitoring Guide
• Recent special issue of Rangelands on “Adaptive Monitoring to Support Adaptive Management”

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Session 4:

(didn’t record- sorry!)

Websites

• U.S. Drought Monitor (explore the site, more than just the current ratings)
• GrassCast– forage production forecasts (only for Eastern CO)
• Intermountain West Climate Dashboard (lots of current data)
• CSU Extension Drought Resources
• Case Study of Drought Planning in SE Colorado
• UNL- Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch (Great Plains)
• Colorado Natural Heritage Program– Invasive Species Info
• Rangelands Gateway- Invasive Plants
• Rangelands Gateway- Vegetation Management and Restoration

Readings

• Vasquez et al– 2010- Invasive Plants on Rangelands: A Global Threat
• DiTomaso et al– 2018- Invasive Plant Species and Novel Rangeland Systems
• Thurow and Taylor– 1999- Viewpoint: The role of drought in range management
• Derner and Augustine– 2016- Adaptive management for drought on rangelands
• Howery– 2016- Rangeland management before, during, and after drought

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Session 5:

Recording of Session 5

Websites

• Adaptive Management on Wikipedia (a good summary!)
• Adaptive Management: The DOI Guide

Readings

• Allen et al– 2017- Adaptive Management of Rangeland Systems
• Gosnell et al– 2020- A half century of Holistic Management: What does the evidence reveal?
• McCord and Pilliod– 2022- Adaptive monitoring in support of adaptive management in rangelands
• Wilmer et al– 2018- Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management Fosters Management-Science Partnerships