Cooper grew up near Helena, MT. He studied Agricultural Business, Rangeland Resources, and Spanish at Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo, and after graduating he spent 4 years traveling the world working on ranches.
Diana Rodgers, RD, is a “real food” nutritionist living on a working organic farm near Boston, Massachusetts. She’s an author, runs a clinical nutrition practice, and her work been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and Outside Magazine.
Graeme Hand farms beef cattle in Tasmania and NSW and is the CEO of Stipa Native Grasses Association. He also runs his own consultancy business and has delivered workshops across Australia & internationally to cropping and grazing farmers on farm financial health checks, planned grazing and forage & cover cropping.
Scott grew up in a farming community in the Midwest. Went west in ’76 and spent 25 years as a working cowboy and guide. Returned to college in 2000. BA-FortLewis College. MS-Cornell University where he also taught Natural Resource Management and American Indian Studies.
Glenn Elzinga, with his wife and business partner Caryl started Alderspring Ranch near Salmon, Idaho, in 1992. Now, the ranch has grown to a 7 figure direct marketing enterprise on 1700 acres deeded with a 46,000 acre wild rangeland permit, all certified organic.
For 40 years, Fred’s team did research that laid the foundation for behavior-based management of landscapes. Those efforts led to the formation in 2001 of an international network of scientists and land managers from five continents.