Rangeland conservation and management

Fostering Stewardship: A How-to Guide for Trainers

This curriculum package helps natural-resource professionals train landowners on best practices in resource management. Topics include forests, fire, streams, wildlife, soil, pastures, water systems and economics — all issues facing landowners in many parts of the West.

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What’s on the menu? Grouse groceries in areas with cheatgrass

Healthy sagebrush rangelands provide a bounty of foods for sage-grouse. Sage-grouse browse for different foods during different times of year and periods of their lives. Not all rangelands provide equal quality forage for sage-grouse.

Vanessa Schroeder, Jonathan Dinkins | Oct 2023 | Article

Episode 35: Range (in English)

In this episode, Jacob Putney is joined by Katie Wollstein to discuss strategies to mitigate fires and invasive plant species in Oregon rangelands.

Jacob Putney, Katherine Wollstein | Jul 2023 | Podcast episode

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Videos

Where and When to Photo Monitor Rangeland Health? (in English)

It is important for you to select an appropriate photo monitoring location and timeframe that will provide you information that will be useful for evaluating your management objectives. In this video, you will learn where to ...

Sergio Arispe, Dustin Johnson | Nov 2017 | Video

Land Management Planning Addresses Ecological Threats (in English)

Wildfire and Invasive annual grasses and encroaching juniper can threaten the ecosystem and viability of rangeland-based agricultural operations. OSU Extension created an innovative, online land management planning course to equip ...

Sergio Arispe | Jan 2022 | Video

Sage Grouse Field Research (in English)

In the fall of 2017, a reporter and videographer joined a wildlife biologists from Oregon State University and the Bureau of Land Management as they spent an evening in Lake County, Oregon, capturing and tagging sage-grouse for a research project.

Andrew Olsen | Sep 2018 | Video

Digital mapping

Digital mapping tools: Part 1, the basics

Get more out of your smartphone! Free or low-cost digital mapping tools can help you track your path, measure a boundary, calculate area and pinpoint problem areas so you can find them again. You can even map vegetation via satellite imagery.

Norma Kline, Alicia Christiansen | Mar 2021 | Article

Digital mapping tools: Part 2, printing a topographic map

For a big-picture view of the landscape, sometimes nothing beats the power of a paper map. Save yourself a trip to the store and print out just the map you need from any number of free websites.

Norma Kline, Alicia Christiansen | Mar 2021 | Article

Wildfire Defensible Space for the Farm and Ranch

By Jacob Powell

This is a webinar recording from May 2021 covering wildfire defensible space for homes and agricultural operations. Ariel Cowan, OSU Regional Fire Specialist for the Central Region, covers steps homeowners and agricultural producers can take on their structures to create wildfire defensible space. Jacob Powell, General Agricultural Extension Agent, covers additional steps farmers and ranchers can take to expand defensible space across their entire operation.

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Threat management resources

Range improvements: Tools and methods to improve cattle distribution

Uneven grazing patterns on rangeland can lead to overuse of forage in some areas and no use or waste in areas not visited by cattle. Range improvements that promote more even grazing can increase pasture carrying capacity and...

David Ganskopp | Jan 2019 | Article

Latest news

Art, science merge in Oregon State study of 19th-century landscape paintings’ ecological integrity

CORVALLIS, Ore. – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science.

Steve Lundeberg | Sep 13, 2023 | News story

OSU Extension outreach results in special issue of Rangelands journal

The special issue is an urgent call to action among rangeland managers and practitioners.

Kym Pokorny | Jul 4, 2022 | News story

Sage grouse studies find mixed results from hunting restrictions in West

Conservation of the birds prompted research led by the Oregon State University Extension Service to determine whether hunting affects the birds’ population.

Kym Pokorny | Oct 11, 2021 | News story

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Sergio Arispe

Associate Professor, Livestock and Rangeland

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Assistant Professor of Practice

Jacob Powell

Crops & Livestock, Assistant Professor of Practice

Will Price

Assistant Professor of Practice

My Extension and research programs focus on rangeland based livestock production in Baker and Union Counties.

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