Save the date! February 9-14, 2014 67th Society for Range Management Annual International Meeting, Technical Training and Trade Show in Orlando, Florida. The theme for the 67th Society for Range Management Annual International Meeting, Technical Training and Trade Show is From Dusty Trails to Waning Wetlands to bring drought and water management, a problem we are all so familiar with, to the forefront of the meeting. The Plenary Session will kick off the meeting with noted speakers Dr. Reed Noss, author of Forgotten Grasslands of the South and Professor of Biology at University of Central Florida, discussing the history of grasslands in the south and orienting our largely western-based membership to the regional rangelands, Dr. Thad Box, Former Dean of Utah State Universitys College of Natural Resources and regular contributor to Rangelands and Utah Public Radio, discussing the history of drought and how his experiences have changed the way he thinks and how drought has shaped the Society, and Dr. Donald Wilhite, Professor of Applied Climate Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Founding Director of the National Drought Mitigation Center, discussing the way forward in how we deal with and manage for drought on our rangelands. The Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative Committee will sponsor a forum titled Healing the Land and Building Soil Health. The forum will provide technical information about the science of healthy soils. Speakers will discuss soil health building conservation principles and practices. The popular Producers Forum will follow that same theme. The title of the Producers Forum is Soil Health Matters. Producers from across the country will discuss the management principles and conservation practices they have implemented on their ranches to improve soil health. Throughout the meeting we will have a large diversity of technical sessions, workshops and symposia covering a range of topics from wildlife to fire ecology. Keep up to date with new conference information at http://www.rangelands.org/events/. Please make plans to attend. Orlando is a great place to be in February.
