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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Latest Content

Grazing Management for Rangeland Health: A Threat-based Land Management Approach (in English)

The sagebrush ecosystem is shrinking at an alarming rate. Threat-based land management provides a framework for improving grazing and management and adjusting as conditions change. Monitoring and the Grazing Response Index are vital ...

Chris Schachtschneider, Vanessa Schroeder, Dustin Johnson | Oct 2022 | OSU Extension Catalog

Reduce wildfire risk and improve fire response: Coordinating planning, funding, and implementation (in English)

Typically, wildfire risk reduction efforts must occur at a scale beyond that of individual parcels. This requires multiple landowners and managers within an area to coordinate and ensure their treatments are strategic. Learn how Lone Pine Rangeland Fire Protection Association (LPRFPA) partnered with state and federal agencies to create and implement a Fire Prevention & Management Plan. The plan provided a strategy for coordinating funding and treatments across federal, state, and private lands within a ~60,000-acre area to reduce wildfire risk and improve wildland fire response.

Katherine Wollstein | May 2022 | Fact Sheet

Forestry & Natural Resources Extension Fire Program: 2021 Impact Report (in English)

The Extension Fire Program uses education, outreach, and boundary spanning partnerships to foster the resiliency of communities and landscapes to wildfire at scale. Learn more!

Carrie Berger, Emily Jane Davis | May 2022 | Educational document

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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 ...

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...

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

OSU Sagebrush Habitat Team responds to threats to vast ecosystem

Created in 2016, the team works in general themes related to its mission, including: sagebrush ecosystem management, wildlife conservation and management, and related trainings and outreach.

Vanessa Schroeder, Dustin Johnson | Jun 2021 | Impact story

Rangeland faculty help mitigate spread of invasive grasses

Research is incorporated into the Harney County Cooperative Weed Management Area, which will restore 20,000 acres that have been invaded by medusahead in western Harney County.

Dustin Johnson | Aug 2020 | Impact story

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

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

Insect data from OSU research helps assess habitat quality for sage-grouse

The information allows the Bureau of Land Management to correlate sagebrush steppe vegetation data and insect populations to better assess the condition of sage-grouse habitat.

Fara Brummer | Mar 2021 | Impact story

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Meet Our Experts

Sergio Arispe

Associate Professor, Livestock and Rangeland

Dustin Johnson

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 based in Baker and Union Counties.

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