Project Overview
Ranchers holding public land grazing permits face real financial risks imposed by strict agency requirements and livestock production capacity constraints. Other risks, faced by all ranchers include drought, wildfire and market fluctuations. Public land ranchers however are constrained in their responses to these factors. Often these constraints can be mitigated through properly planned and conducted environmental monitoring and adaptive grazing management, both done in conjunction with agency personnel. This project provided four monitoring and two grazing management workshops and three on-ranch monitoring demonstrations in two geographically separate areas. The target audience included particularly vulnerable and under-served subsets of the approximately 2500 ranching families in Arizona, identified by surveys and focus groups. Risk management results included increased rancher skills to document forage recovery after wildfire and compliance with grazing management guidelines imposed by regulatory agencies, through shared understanding and implementation of monitoring and adaptive grazing management. Outputs and outcomes were measured through participation counts, surveys and personal interviews, and demonstrated consensus building with regulatory agencies. Nearly 200 individual ranchers and agency personnel participated in the project and 29 ranching families achieved measurable results through on-site monitoring projects in conjunction with agency personnel.
Number of Participants: 180
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