The resource link to the left links to Part 1 of this presentation. The link to Part 2 can be found below.
Barry Adams, head of the Rangeland Resource Management Program at ESRD, discusses ecological tools and their core applications to rangeland management. He talks about Alberta’s Rangelands – these native, modified and seeded communities – and the ecological services gained from them, such as watershed protection and biodiversity maintenance. The Range Resource Management system is discussed, as well as the history of rangeland management. Part 2 discusses management of public land grazing and the importance of achieving sustainable grazing allocations while balancing this with all other interests on public land. This includes quantifying the grazing capacity for each field and applying the principles of range management, and measuring how current management is affecting the lands ability to perform its natural ecological functions. Every guide created is based on a natural sub-region and defines the ecological site, ecosite phase, range plant community and successional community.
View Part 2 of this presentation here.
This presentation was a part of the Alberta Institute of Agrologists 11th Annual Banff Conference from March 31-April 2, 2015.
