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Hi Everyone,</p>
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With this url link, we are sharing a StoryMap called “What does resilience mean to western ranchers?”
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<a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/b08b39a1ca134e658d98915afe91b13f">https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/b08b39a1ca134e658d98915afe91b13f</a><o:p> </o:p></p>
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You may find it useful for sharing with colleagues in rangeland management, ranching, and rural economics and development.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>It can be used to support conversations about rangelands, their use, and how ranchers define resilience in the face of changes in ecological conditions, economics, ranching communities, and users and uses of rangelands.
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In short, the StoryMap has these qualities:<o:p> </o:p></p>
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This Story Map shares findings from focus groups with 52 livestock producers across 7 locations in the U.S. West. <o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">
This Story Map communicates the challenges of ranching and rancher responses to changing environmental and social conditions in their own words. <o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">
Ranchers identified changes that fall into four thematic categories: ecological conditions, economic conditions, ranching communities, and rangeland users and uses. <o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">
Ranchers discussed the greatest number of adaptation strategies to address ecological changes, but fewer options were available to address changes to the economy, ranching communities, and rangeland land use. <o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">
Use this Story Map to learn more about rangeland management, perspectives of ranchers in different western contexts, and the interconnectedness of social-ecological challenges and adaptation options. <o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<div><i><font size="3" face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Mitch McClaran<br>
Professor of Range Management, School of Natural Resources and the Environment<br>
Director for Research, Santa Rita Experimental Range<br>
Director, Arizona Experiment Station<br>
Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences and Cooperative Extension<br>
University of Arizona<br>
520-390-9801 (cell)<br>
520-621-1673 (office)<br>
<a href="http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran</a></font></font><font size="2"><br>
<font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Office Location: 112 Biological Sciences East</font></font></i></div>
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