Services
Our Specialties
- Planning and assessment of grazing prescriptions to achieve conservation and sustainability objectives
- Monitoring of conservation and sustainability performance, interpretation of results, and adaptation of plans
- Scholarly investigations, expert workgroups, study designs, and training programs on grazing management challenges
- Grazing-related infrastructure for conservation rangelands
- Evaluation of rangeland management agency grazing programs
Planning and Assessment
Planning and Assessment
Planning and Assessment
- Conservation-oriented planning for rangeland management for agencies, land trusts, and ranches
- Expertise on habitat, water quality and erosion, pest plants, shrub encroachment, and fire hazard reduction
- Emphasis on special resource priorities, flexibility, and sustainability for conservation and ranching operations
- Evaluation of existing and needed grazing infrastructure
- Grazing Management Plans
Monitoring
Planning and Assessment
Planning and Assessment
- Design and implementation of monitoring programs tailored to project needs and rangeland resources
- Compliance, stewardship effectiveness, and ecosystem health
- Timely reporting with summaries of results, analyses, and recommendations
- RDM mapping for easy to understand, impactful figures
- Advanced technology to improve efficiency
Research
Planning and Assessment
Grazing Lease Advising and Supervision
- Formal research on rangeland vegetation conditions and dynamics
- Lead scientists and project manager for study of ecological dynamics and effects of grazing in coastal sage shrub and grassland
- Lead scientists and authors for evaluation of responses of Santa Cruz tarplant to management strategies
- Designing grazing study for habitat of coastal endangered butterflies
- Lead scientist and author for studies of human/livestock-wildlife conflicts
- Lead authors of “Managing Rangelands to Benefit California Red-legged Frogs and California Tiger Salamanders”, comprehensive guidelines on grazing management practices to maintain and improve habitat for these species
- Designed and implemented ongoing research project on grazing management to maintain and improve habitat for the federally-endangered Ohlone Tiger Beetle
- Costal scrub fire ecology and control of pest plants
Grazing Lease Advising and Supervision
Grazing Lease Advising and Supervision
Grazing Lease Advising and Supervision
- Coordination and supervision of the grazing lessee operations and management decisions, and liaison with the landowner
- Monitoring
- Objectives of contractual and regulatory compliance
- Rangeland ecosystem health
- Management effectiveness
- Ranching sustainability
- Investigation of complex problems
- Cooperative adjustment of plans based on monitoring results
- Timely reporting
- Summary evaluations
- Advanced technology to improve efficiency of data collection, data analyses, and sharing and illustrating of results
- Day-to-day advising and remote communication
Grazing Infrastructure Assessment
Grazing Lease Advising and Supervision
Grazing Infrastructure Assessment
- Livestock infrastructure, operations, grazing capacity assessments, and development
- Wildlife-friendliness
- Condition assessments, repair and replacement schedules, and cost estimates
- Fire damage assessments
Legal Support
Grazing Lease Advising and Supervision
Grazing Infrastructure Assessment
- Investigation of livestock escape, collisions with vehicles, and damages to property or resources
- Analysis of livestock infrastructure and conditions
- Expert witness testimony
