[RangelandsPartnership] Animal Science Newsletter Opportunity

[Doug R. Tolleson]

Colleagues,



As the liaison to the Society for Range Management for the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS),

I am in charge of finding 5-6 short (1 to 1.5 pages) articles for the ASAS Public Policy Newsletter (Taking Stock DC),

specifically for the August issue.



Therefore, I need to find volunteers who would be willing to produce an article, in scientific but readable by a lay

audience terms, covering "rangy" topics of broad interest to animal scientists, industry, and producers.



Last year (from this group), Mark Thorne wrote about feral hogs, Barbara Hutchinson wrote about IYRP and I wrote about

recovery from wildfires for ranchers. We also had an article concerning bison ranching by Jeff Martin from SDSU.



This will be an opportunity for individuals to produce an extension output and also, for a collection that can be credited

to the RP. This could become an annual production.



Possible topics could include:



Applications of virtual fence in remote areas

Drones (or other remote sensing tools) for range and animal monitoring

Advanced stocking rate calculation tools (e.g. Stock Smart)

BLM Grazing Rule

Targeted grazing to reduce wildfire impact

The interaction of stockmanship and stewardship

Land fragmentation and absentee ownership - impacts on range livestock management

AI and AI - how will rapidly advancing science impact range and livestock management in remote areas?

How is cow size affecting range management?

Others???



Please let me know by June 10 if you would like to contribute. I suspect that we will have an early July deadline.



Many thanks,



Doug



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