[Srm] Fwd: Rangelands Partnership June Newsletter

Fri Jun 22 06:59:33 MST 2018

Hi Students,
Here is the newsletter I mentioned in my previous message. Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
Mitch McClaran

Sent from my iPad. Please excuse brevity and errors.

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From: Rangelands Partnership <adalke at email.arizona.edu<mailto:adalke at email.arizona.edu>>
Date: June 22, 2018 at 4:02:25 AM MST
To: <mcclaran at email.arizona.edu<mailto:mcclaran at email.arizona.edu>>
Subject: Rangelands Partnership June Newsletter
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Catch up with the Rangelands Partnership
Rangelands Partnership Newsletter June 22, 2018
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The Rangelands Partnership Annual Meeting
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Thank you to all who participated at the 2018 Annual Rangelands Partnership meeting in Moscow, Idaho last month.  The Executive Committee is compiling meeting notes.  Stay tuned to the newsletter for reminders about the EC+ conference calls, committee updates, and more!

A huge thank you to Jeremy Kenyon for his hard work in making the annual meeting a success!

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SRM Films
The Maverick
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Earlier this year, the Rangelands Partnership donated to SRM's effort to restore the Society's classic films.  SRM aims to make 4 films in total, including The Maverick.  "The Maverick" opens with an encounter between a young rancher and a cowboy out of the past. Each is startled at the appearance of the other.  The old timer is suspicious of the pickup trunk and the younger man in "fancy clothing." Throughout the movie the young rancher explains the reason for changes in the methods of managing livestock and their food supply.  He explains the need for range improvements and the benefits derived from them.  Read more about The Maverick<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=5cd694057d&e=7001fb7a12>.  Explore the other titles here<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=1bc3f4a486&e=7001fb7a12>.

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Share your Photographs
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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is a non-profit-making and non-governmental organization with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and a second principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ILRI works in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, with offices in East and West Africa, South and Southeast Asia, China and Central America. ILRI works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality science and capacity-building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. The ILC-Rangelands Initiative Global is requesting photographs to add to their growing library of images<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=0179edd84a&e=7001fb7a12>. Please consider sharing your own images from U.S. rangelands by emailing Fiona Flintan<mailto:F.Flintan at cgiar.org?subject=ILRI%20Photographs>, Coordinator, ILC-Rangelands Initiative Global, with a title, short description (two sentences), location, who to credit, and written permission to use the photographs on the ILC Rangelands Initiative website and ILRI flickr site.

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Students in Action and Career Options:
Complete or Share the Survey
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How do prospective students find out what it's like to study or work as a rangelands professional? Please consider sharing information about yourself if you are either a current student of Rangeland Ecology and Management or an active professional working as a range professional.

Stories will be shared on the Careers and Education<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=2117c1bbf7&e=7001fb7a12> website. Contact Susan Marshall<mailto:sem11 at humboldt.edu?subject=Career%20and%20Education%20Survey> for questions.

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International News Update
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(Call for Abstracts) Joint International Grassland-International Rangeland Congress to be held in Nairobi in 2020. Information is available here<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=a96552645c&e=7001fb7a12>.

(Meeting) International Land Coalition (ILC) is holding a Global Land Forum<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=578abd4bf7&e=7001fb7a12> in Indonesia from September 22-27. 2018.  Title: United for Land Rights, Peace, and Justice.  As a member of the ILC Rangelands Initiative, the Rangelands Partnership was invited to participate in this Forum.

(Meeting) The Natural Resources Institute announcing an International Symposium on Water and Land Resources in Central Asia<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=310ad15ddc&e=7001fb7a12>. Deadline for submitting abstracts is July 31, 2018.

(Report) Partnership for Action<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=ed30434b93&e=7001fb7a12>: Information ecosystem for land governance.  A Workshop sponsored by the Land Portal prior to the World Bank Land & Poverty Conference, 17-18th of March, 2018.

(Report) The Necessity for Open Data on Land and Property Rights<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=0cf52e8333&e=7001fb7a12> (from Land Portal as part of the GODAN Action Project)

(Webinar) Her Land Her Story: Strengthening Women's Land Rights. April 2018.  The Land Portal Foundation, the Cadasta Foundation, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Thematic Network on Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources co-hosted an interactive webinar to highlight the critical links between securing women’s land rights and promoting sustainable development. Learn more about Her Land Her Story<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=b28aa782ed&e=7001fb7a12> or watch the Webinar Recording<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=e1de85da6f&e=7001fb7a12>.

(Recording) Improving the livelihoods of small-scale livestock producers through the FFS approach<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=b9462c3bf1&e=7001fb7a12> seminar was held on 15 May, 2018 and sponsored by the Animal Production and Health Division and FFS Global Knowledge Product

(Video) Introducing the Global Agenda of Action in support of sustainable livestock sector development.<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=259188b581&e=7001fb7a12>  Outlines three areas where changes in practice can bring about environment, social and economic benefits: (1) Improving Production Efficiency; (2) Restoring Value to Grasslands; and (3) Managing Manure. Presented by the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock.

(Web Group) Feed Network<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=adbaf366aa&e=7001fb7a12> is an open group forum for all stakeholders along the feed chain and interested people who care about good animal feeding, feed safety, and related topics. Its members represent a multi-stakeholder group including feed regulators from the private and public sector, feed professionals from academia and research and the civil society.

(Web Tool) Environmental Justice Atlas<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=606b477ab5&e=7001fb7a12> - The atlas maps social conflicts around environmental issues across the world and invites comments on mapped cases, as well as contributions with new cases not mapped so far.

(Blog) PASTRES<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=290b9ed6be&e=7001fb7a12> (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) is a research project which aims to learn from the ways that pastoralists respond to uncertainty, applying such ‘lessons from the margins’ to global challenges. It is supported by the European Research Council and runs from 2018-2022. Learn more here<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=30106058f9&e=7001fb7a12>.

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From Barbed Wire to Virtual Fence
By Karen Launchbaugh
Rangeland Center, University of Idaho
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Controlling where animals graze, water, or rest is an age-old challenge of livestock husbandry.  For more than 10, 000 years this issue was addressed by intensive herding or with barriers made of sticks and stones.

In the late 1800’s as ranchers staked claim to the western lands of North America, they needed some way to set boundaries and control livestock on their lands. However, ranchers moving into the Great Plains encountered a prodigious shortage of lumber and stones (Figure Above). These ranchers grasped the value of a metal wire armed with sharp metal points at regular intervals patented by several inventors in the 1860’s. In 1874, Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois, received a patent for his version of “barbed wired” which proved sturdy and was easily produced becoming the first commercially available barbed wire and earning him the title of “Father of Barbed Wire.”

This idea of wire fences that could control livestock fueled innovation in the late 1800’s with over 570 patterns issued and about 150 companies producing a vast array of barbed wires.  For example, many of the most interesting wire included rowels like the spurs worn by cowboys:

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A few barbed wires were also embedded with wood or metal plates to make sure the fence was visible to approaching animals. It is interesting that today we often attach plastic tabs to fences to reduce collisions by wildlife.  This old idea in fence manufacturing apparently had value rediscovered a century later.

Some wire patterns must have involved some knowledge of knitting or crochet as the barbs are intricately twisted and artistically attached to the wire.

The ability to control when and where livestock graze allowed the application grazing systems and initiated modern grazing management. Indeed, rotational grazing systems at the heart of sustainable grazing practices usually require fencing. Many benefits for livestock production and rangeland conservation can be gained with careful control of livestock grazing. But, wire fencing can fragment landscapes, harm wildlife, and is a major cost to ranchers. The desire to get rid of heavy wire fences has increased use of temporary electric fences and refueled interest in traditional herding methods.

Though the fences we use today look hauntingly similar to fences constructed a century ago, there are new technologies that promise to control livestock movement on a range without fences. This alluring idea is called “virtual fencing” and involves animals wearing a shock collars and a virtual pasture perimeter that transmits a signal to the animal giving it a mild shock when it gets to close to the perimeter. A good examples of a commercially available virtual fence is the electric invisible fences for dogs that involve a wire buried at the yard’s perimeter activating the dog’s shock collar when they get too close (For example<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=b5a7294f29&e=7001fb7a12>).

The idea of using virtual fence for range livestock was suggested several decades ago by Dr. Dean Anderson with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Jornada Experimental Range in New Mexico. The system tested by Dr. Anderson involved a perimeter set on a virtual map with cow location determined by GPS and powered by a solar panel. The prototype involved a cow wearing a helmet-like contraption (Fig 2). But, it worked!

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Fast forward to 2018.  Technology has gotten faster, cheaper, and smaller.  Several companies believe the time is right to dust off this virtual fence idea and infuse it with new technology. An Australian company called Agersens<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=17c180fcce&e=7001fb7a12> appears to be the first company with a commercially available virtual fence system for cattle. Agersens has a system called eShepherdTM that uses audio cues and electric shock reinforcers to keep animals in a pasture and even allow the operator to move or “muster” animals to a new area. A team in California has developed a technology called Vence<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=2b0f77afa5&e=7001fb7a12> to control animal movements within virtual fences. The Vence system also allows the manager to monitor animal health status (e.g., temperature and heart rate).  A Norwegian company, called NoFence<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=306a435d67&e=7001fb7a12>, offers a collar for goats that create virtual pastures. Yes… goats, the Houdini of livestock, kept inside a virtual fence!

These three innovative virtual fence systems allow the rancher to draw a pasture on a computer or cell phone and track animal locations in the virtual pasture. It is still unclear how much these systems will cost and if they will work on vast western landscapes. But, they offer the first steps toward a world without fence.

More Reading:

Anderson, D. M. (2007). Virtual fencing–past, present and future1. The Rangeland Journal, 29(1), 65-78.<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=5737dd1089&e=7001fb7a12>

Umstatter, C. (2011). The evolution of virtual fences: a review. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 75(1), 10-22.

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National Extension Web Mapping Tool
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eXtension Foundation and others have developed a mapping and data exploration tool to assist Cooperative Extension staff and administrators in making strategic planning and programming decisions. The tool, called the National Extension Web-mapping Tool (or NEWT), is the key in efforts to make spatial data available within cooperative extension system. NEWT requires no GIS experience to use.  Read more about NEWT.<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=474b56c5d4&e=7001fb7a12>

Want to share a new resource, upcoming event, highlight a person, or anything else Partnership related?  Send a brief statement and picture to Amber Dalke<mailto:adalke at email.arizona.edu?subject=Newsletter%20Contribution&body=Please%20provide%20Partnership%20related%20content%20for%20the%20newsletter>.

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