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The New Ranch at Work: Proceedings of a Conference
January 2003
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Excerpt from Foreword by Courtney White:
"The trouble with any Proceedings is that they only hint at the soul of an event. Lost in the forest of citations, the neatly spaced paragraphs, and the spell-checked sentences are all the intangibles that make a conference sing - the handshakes, the laughter, the shared stories - much of it taking place in the halls and during the breaks.
"Lost, too, in the rewrites and the editing is the passion of the speakers and the connection that is created between them and the audience. One speaker at our Conference, for instance, was overcome with emotion in the middle of his presentation, creating a very poignant, and very human, bond with his listeners that cannot be replicated in literary form. It is these moments - the ones that get remembered, talked about, and shared - that characterize a conference. It is the public and private interactions between people from different walks of life, discovering common interests in the midst of differing positions, that are the heart of all meetings."
Contents:
Purchase
Excerpt from Foreword by Courtney White:
"The trouble with any Proceedings is that they only hint at the soul of an event. Lost in the forest of citations, the neatly spaced paragraphs, and the spell-checked sentences are all the intangibles that make a conference sing - the handshakes, the laughter, the shared stories - much of it taking place in the halls and during the breaks.
"Lost, too, in the rewrites and the editing is the passion of the speakers and the connection that is created between them and the audience. One speaker at our Conference, for instance, was overcome with emotion in the middle of his presentation, creating a very poignant, and very human, bond with his listeners that cannot be replicated in literary form. It is these moments - the ones that get remembered, talked about, and shared - that characterize a conference. It is the public and private interactions between people from different walks of life, discovering common interests in the midst of differing positions, that are the heart of all meetings."
Contents:
- Foreword -Courtney White
- Welcome -Ray Powell
- Grazing As a Natural Process - Just the Facts Please
- Grazing In Complex Environments - The Details Matter -Kris Havstad, Brandon Bestelmeyer, and Joel Brown
- Ranching as Sustainable Agriculture -Kirk Gadzia
- Ranching: Natural Processes in an Economic Setting -Bob Budd
- Lessons From the Malpai Borderlands - Ecological Science and Sustainable Grazing -James Brown
- The Principles of the New Ranch - Innovation in Action
- The CS Ranch - A Work in Progress -Julia Davis-Stafford
- Profit is Not a Dirty Word -Roger Bowe
- Dormant Season Grazing at Macho Creek - Is There a Seasonal Benefit for Birds? -Gail Garber
- Working With the Federal Government -David James
- Special Presentation
- Rethinking Protected Areas - The Case of the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge -Nathan Sayre
- Grazing and Biodiversity - We Can Get Along!
- Speaking Western - Honest Conversations About Biodiversity On Protected Areas, Ranches, and Subdivisions -Richard Knight
- Ranching for Biodiversity -Tony Malmberg
- Prairie Dogs, Cattle and Conventional Wisdom -Ben Brown and Charles Curtin
- The U Bar Ranch, Conventional Wisdom, and the Southwest Willow Flycatcher -Scott Stoleson
- Building the Radical Center - Getting Results
- Why It's Time to Demand Results -Dan Dagget
- Reconnecting People and Land - How Warriors Become Healers -Tommie Cline Martin
- The Nevada Governor's Sage Grouse Conservation Team - An Effort in Environmental Democracy -Merle Lefkoff
- Soil First! - Putting the "Grass" and "Roots" Back Into Grassroots Environmentalism -Courtney White
- Appendices
- Presenters
- Endnotes and References