Seminar - Policy, Law, and Management – Spring semester 2009, REM501

Instructor: Eva Strand
Time: Wednesdays 3:30 - 4:20 pm
Location: CNR205 (Rangeland Ecology and Management Conference Room)

January 14           Introduction - Laws that influence rangeland management and conservation
        Form student working groups for six seminar topics
        Oral Presentation Tips  (SRM)
        Oral Presentation Judging Form (SRM)
 

January 21           Graduate student presentations
        Brianna Goehring 3:30 pm (CONFIRMED)
       Jeff Gillan 4:00 pm (CONFIRMED)

January 28           Laws that influence rangeland management and conservation
         Invited speaker: Colleen Diener, Jeffers Danielson Sonn & Aylward, PS Law Firm (CONFIRMED)
         Presentation by Colleen Diener             

February 4          Graduate student presentations
      Julie Finzel, 3:30 pm  (CONFIRMED)
      Alex Suchar, 4:00 pm

February 11        No Seminar, SRM

February 18        Consequences of sage grouse listing: What can land owners do?
                                Student presentation and discussion  (Brianna Goehring, Julie Finzel)
                                 Reading - Wyoming Lawyer, Feb 2008

February 25        Consequences of sage grouse listing: What can land owners do?
                                Invited speaker: Joe Hinson, Northwest Natural Resources Group (CONFIRMED)

                                Presentation by Joe Hinson   
                       

March 4                Living with T&E plants in Idaho: Laws and liabilities
       Student presentation and discussion  (Priscilla Nyamai, Wade Tinkham)

March 11             Living with T&E plants in Idaho: Laws and liabilities
      Invited speaker: Tom Perry, Office of Species Conservation in Boise

                               Presentation by Tom Perry

March 18             No Seminar, Spring Break

March 25             Domestic sheep in bighorn sheep country
      Student presentation and discussion  (Amber Morris, Jason Story)

April 1                   Domestic sheep in bighorn sheep country
       Invited speaker:  Margaret Soulen-Hinson (CONFIRMED)

                                   Presentation by Margaret Soulen
     
       Soulen Livestock is a family owned sheep/cattle ranch that has been operational since the 1920’s.
      The ranch includes an area of over 100,000 acres in conjunction with BLM and Forest Service lands. 
      Soulen Livestock has recently completed a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for the 
      greater sage grouse and are actively engaged in collaborative conservation projects on private and public lands.

April 8                   Energy development on rangelands: Oil, gas, and wind
       Student presentation and discussion (Ginny Harris, Lee Spencer, Sebastian Martinuzzi)

                               Reading: A Federal Public Lands Agenda for the21st Century

April 15                Energy development on rangelands: Oil, gas, and wind
      Invited speaker: Jerry Taylor, BLM Branch Chief for Lands, Minerals, and Water, Boise
                                   (maybe via video conference) (CONFIRMED).
       Jerry will address law and policy relative to energy development on public lands (geothermal, wind, transmission etc)

      Presentation by Jerry Taylor

April 22                Planning and implementing prescribed burning treatments in juniper woodlands
      Student presentation and discussion (Chris Bernau, Alex Suchar)  

April 29                Planning and implementing prescribed burning treatments in juniper woodlands
      Invited speaker: Mike DeArmond from the BLM (CONFIRMED)
      Mike DeArmond will address law and policy relative to vegetation management (forest and woodland management,
      stewardship contracting, healthy forest fuels management, biomass, etc)

      Presentation by Mike DeArmond