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Recent and Future Trends in Rangeland Resources from the RPA Assessment
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Notice: As of 1/30/2025, this webinar series is postponed. The webinars previously aired (1/15, 1/16, 1/24, 1/25) have been recorded and are available for registration and viewing. All future webinars will be scheduled as soon as we can. Registration for the series as well as individual webinars will remain open during this postponement. If you have any questions, please contact us at ForestEdSupport@safnet.org.
Human activities and natural processes have significantly altered the rangeland resources of the United States, and continual changes are expected. This webinar will review results from the Rangeland Resources Chapter of the 2020 RPA Assessment, presenting recent trends in rangeland extent, health, vegetation ground cover, aboveground net primary productivity, and livestock numbers, as well as projections of future changes in rangeland phenology, vegetation productivity, and land use. To highlight the value of the RPA approaches, we will then hear about how managers are using these assessments and data to evaluate stocking rates, update Forest Plan Revisions, and identify unhealthy trends such as loss or perennial grasses or conifer encroachment.
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This webinar is intended for land managers, Planning Service Organization members and policy makers—anyone interested in understanding how rangeland resources in the U.S. have been changing over time and how they are likely to continue to change in the future.
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The webinar is scheduled for live viewing on Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM ET. The Zoom Webinar platform will be used for the presentation. Be sure to connect to the webinar using a device approved to access Zoom.
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Webinar duration
This webinar is 1 hour.
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of viewing this webinar, you will be able to:
1. Explain how rangeland resources have changed over recent decades.
2. Describe how rangeland resources are projected to continue to change in the future.
3. Identify ways in which projections of rangeland resources can be used in policy or management.
Rubric
Successful completion of this learning product is measured by viewing the entire webinar and completing the evaluation.
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Matt Reeves
Research Ecologist
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Matt Reeves is a Research Ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, the co-director of the Northern Plains Climate Hub, and the RPA Rangeland Assessment leader. There he specializes in applying remote sensing and modeling to characterize ecological dynamics of rangelands in a manner relevant to managers. He received his BS in Range Management (1995), MS in Environmental Resources (1999) and his PhD in Remote Sensing and Ecological modeling of rangeland and agricultural environments (2004).
Iric Burden
Range Program Manager
Kaibab National Forest
Iric's work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has taken him across the globe. He has been fortunate to assist with and support conservation projects in North America, many African Countries, South America and Asia. Closer to home, Iric grew up in on a ranch in Southeastern Arizona, learning many land management skills and understanding at an early age the necessity of conservation. Eventually, Iric managed and operated over 750,000 acres of ranches in the Big Bend portion of Texas and worked as Direct of Conservation at a world renown captive conservation center. In addition, Iric has been fortunate to work as the Area Range Management Specialist for Arizona NRCS in Northern Arizona and has settled in at the Kaibab National Forest. Iric is very proud of where he has been and what he has accomplished but nothing compares to his excitement over new technologies and the future of range management.
Claire O'Dea (Moderator)
Resources Planning Act Assessment National Program Leader
USDA Forest Service Research & Development
Kathy Broughton (Moderator)
Assessment Program Manager
USDA Forest Service Research & Development
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