[SRM] The University of Arizona's Undergraduate Range Management Exam Team (aka "URME" Team).

[Larry Howery]

Hi everyone!
I hope you are all doing well and are settling into thesemester! As you get into your routine for the fall semester, I wanted to providesome general information about the University of Arizona's Undergraduate RangeManagement Exam Team (aka "URME" Team). 

The "URME" is a student competition hosted by theSociety for Range Management (SRM) and administered every year at the annualInternational SRM conference.  The week-longSRM conference will be held February 6-10, 2022 in Albuquerque, NM.  The UA URME Team has won 1st Place in thiscompetition 2 years in a row while competing against ~ 25 college and universityrange programs all across the U.S. and Canada! 
The 2022 Annual conference will be especially excitingbecause the Arizona Section of the SRM is serving as co-host long with the folks in theNew Mexico Section of SRM.  At this conference, there will beplenty of opportunities to network with students from other range programsacross North America, with rangeland professors, scientists, and specialists from many universities, with managers from multiple public and private land management organizations, as well as with ranchers and pastoralists who make a living onrangelands (the world's largest land type) all across the planet.  Perhaps of most interest to students, there will be many potential employers and university representatives at the conference that you will be able to directly talk to about internships, jobs, or graduate school depending on your interests!

Getting back to the URME -- the purpose of this competitive, challenging exam is to providean opportunity for undergraduate students to demonstrate higher order learningskills in 6 key areas and to synthesize their knowledge of the art and scienceof rangeland management.  It is open toany undergraduate student - all are welcome -- I assure you that there will be plenty of help and support for you as an URME Team member!  Even if you are graduating in December2021 you are still eligible to take the URME in February 2022.  Participants who take the URME and score in thetop 10% of participants will have already completed a major step towards qualifyingas a Certified Professional in Rangeland Management (CPRM)!  Another benefit is that you are eligible to earn2 credits if you actively participate in the weekly, 2-hour URME study sessions(time and day TBD this week) and commit to representing the UA by taking theURME next February in Albuquerque (travel funds available)! These credits canbe taken either this fall or next spring semester by enrolling in RNR 496B --Natural Resources Seminar (listed under my name), if you actively participatein URME as described here.  More details will be providedat our first URME meeting.
If you are interested in learning more aboutparticipating in URME, the UA range program (aka, the Ecology, Management, andRestoration of Rangelands Program) or the professional society (SRM) where manyof our students find internships, jobs, and graduate school opportunities, pleasecontact me, Dr. Larry Howery (lhowery at ag.arizona.edu), eitherof my co-coaches, Elena Dosamantes (edosamantes at email.arizona.edu) or Cameron Burleson (cameronburleson at email.arizona.edu), or the student President ofTierra Seca (UA range club) Eamonn Mazur (emazur at email.arizona.edu).  Any of us wouldlove to help you find your way around the UA's Range (EMRR) Program or SRM.

Below is the link to a doodle poll for our firstmeeting next week.  Subsequent URMEpractice sessions will be held during the day and time that the majority selects. Please indicate all possible times you couldbe available so we can accommodate as many students as possible.  I will send a follow-up email with moreinformation late Friday afternoon based on your doodle poll responses.  Please respond by 4:00pm this Friday, 9/3/2021,to ensure that we can set a time for us to meet for an organizational meetingnext week.

https://doodle.com/poll/kabi25uaeph3r4m6?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

Once again, any undergraduate student is welcome andeligible to participate in the URME competition, and allstudents are welcome to participate in Tierra Seca and SRM, so don'thesitate to share this email widely or contact any of us if you have questions!  

All the best,
Larry Howery
Professor and Specialist
Ecology, Management and Restoration of Rangelands Program
 

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