Celebrat ing Dana Peterson

Monday January 30, 2012

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Current Registration

1,300

and growing!

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By Rich Hubbard

The members of the Pacific Northwest Section invite you to celebrate the amazing life

of Dana Peterson. This past October, we lost one of our most beloved and respected

members. Dana was a longtime rangeland specialist for the Bureau of Land Manage-

ment based in Wenatchee, Washington, and a past President of our Section. Howev-

er, to those who knew him, Dana was much more. To this writer, he was my best

friend and work partner. Some of the words or phrases used to describe Dana include:

Impeccable. Gentle. Positive. The ultimate professional. Perfect father. Loving

husband. My close friend. No ego. Knowledgeable. Leader. Dignity. Respect.

Anyone who ever met Dana had her or his life touched in a positive way.

Dana was who we all strive to be. His friends (everyone who knew him) were as de-

voted to him as he was to them. Dana’s family meant everything to him, and he

beamed with pride whenever he talked of them. Dana’s love of our rangelands is un-

questioned, and his professional legacy is written on the landscapes throughout eastern

Washington.

Dana was very involved in planning for this meeting. He was excited to have the op-

portunity to see his friends again and celebrate what we have accomplished. He

would love to know that we are celebrating his memory. Please take the time to share

your memories of Dana with others. Personally, I’ll never forget the look on his face

as he got stuck with a hide-a-bed that was about 2 feet too short: As he lay on his back,

his legs hung over the end and his heels hit the ground. I chortled as Dana recalled

the reactions he got when he visited some downtown Prineville, Oregon cowboy bars

with a coworker who was about 4’10” tall, with red hair and a red beard who looked

for all the world like a leprechaun. For those who did not know him, Dana was about

6’5” tall.

Why is Dana so beloved by each of us? He always went out of his way to treat every-

one he encountered, from the meekest and weakest to the most powerful, with dignity

and respect. It is a strong and simple lesson for us all. Dana wrote in his first Presi-

dent’s Message for the PNW Section Newsletter: “For me, the New Year is like when

you have hiked to a ridge top. You pause, look back to see you have made it, and look

forward to see what terrain lies ahead… From the ridge top, the trail ahead looks pret-

ty good. Remember, we are gaining two to three minutes of daylight every day, and

that’s almost as good as hiking down hill!” Dana, you have led us to the ridge top.

We will honor you with dignity and respect as we enjoy the hike down.

The 2012 Society for Range Management Annual Meeting is dedicated to the memory

of Dana Peterson.

Taste of

the

Northwest Wednesday, Feb. 1

6-7 p.m. Social & No

Host Bar

7-9 p.m. Dinner &

Program

Good Food, Good

Friends, &

Entertainment!

Buy your Ticket

NOW.

Just $35!

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BULLETIN BOARD

Lost & Found Please turn in or

claim these items

at the hotel regis-

tration desk, not

SRM registration.

Tour & Banquet Tickets Have one you want to

sell? Looking for one to

buy? Check the

“Message” board in the

registration area.

MAPS If you need a

map of the

convention

center or hotels,

stop by the SRM

registration area.

There are also

copies in your

registration bag.

Tour Bus Departures All tours will start at the

Convention Center breezeway.

Spokane 2012

Commemorative

Glassware

manufactured from

recycled wine bottles

and featuring the

Winter Dance logo is

for sale at the Taste

of the Northwest

Booth in the Trade

Show!

Don’t miss them!

Young Professionals Conclave Raffle Drawing to be held at “Taste of the Northwest”

Wednesday at 7pm. Need not be present to win. Prizes: framed art print, two quilts, handmade fishing flies & lures, handmade deer antler lamp & handmade

deer antler knife.

2 tickets for $5 at YPC table near registration.

Poster Presentations

Authors have been assigned a number

which corresponds to poster board loca-

tions. Poster sessions will be in the SCC

Ballroom (with the Trade Show) or imme-

diately outside the Ballroom. Poster

boards are 4 ft. X 8 ft. Please bring your

own thumbtacks or devices to mount

your poster on the board. Put your post-

er up by 1:00 pm on the day you are as-

signed (Session A is Monday; Session B is

Tuesday). Plan to be at your poster be-

tween 2:00 and 4:00 pm to answer ques-

tions. Remove your poster between 10:00

and 10:30 the following morning. Thanks!

Speaker

Preparation

Room SCC Show Office N is a

quiet place to review

your notes. If you

need to use

equipment, check at

the 2012 Business

office.

Silent Auction Opens Today

Setup Monday 7-noon. Bidding opens at noon

and continues through Wednesday noon.

SRM members have donated rare books on

rangelands and their management, jewelry, crafts,

range survey tools, art works, and many other

items. All proceeds of the Silent Auction go to

the SRM Endowment Fund. The Endowment

Fund provides SRM with a secure, perpetual

funding source. Come and support your profes-

sional society. And have fun!

The Auction is located in the Ballroom of the

Spokane Convention Center with the SRM Trade

Show.

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Tell Your Story in Rangelands

Learn how you can tell the story of your ranch, research,

travels, or ideas in Rangelands magazine. Grab a bag

lunch and join us for this short noontime event either

Monday or Tuesday. Rangelands editor Lori Hidinger,

contributors Jim Thorpe and Cindy Salo, SRM Director

of Outreach and Leadership Development Aleta Rudeen,

and others will describe how you can tell your story.

Monday 12:15 - 12:50, Room 205 SCC

Tuesday 12:15 - 12:50, Room 203 SCC

For more information: CindySaloBoise@gmail.com

208.850.3313 Or Lori.Hidinger@asu.edu

Young Professionals Conclave Raffle Drawing to be held at “Taste of the Northwest” Wednesday, February 1, at 7pm in the

Spokane Convention Center Ballroom. Need not be present to win. Prizes:

“High Country” by Russ Docken framed art print (25x32 in) donated by Cabelas

Cowboy quilt wall hanging (55 square inches) donated and made by Molly Ryan

Star quilt wall hanging (36 square inches) donated and made by Molly Ryan

Handmade set of fishing flies & lures donated and made by Casey Matney and Mery Waugh

Handmade deer antler lamp donated and made by Jamin Johanson

Handmade deer antler knife donated and made by Jamin Johanson

2 tickets for $5 Tickets sales will be at the YPC table near registration

The ESD and STM Development Tech-

nical Workshop started off the SRM

conference with a bang!

By Laura Applegate, Roving Daily Trail Boss

Reporter

A full room listened to 15 talks and several live-

ly discussions about ecological site descriptions

and state and transition models. There was a lot

of interest in how we can make models con-

sistent across the nation, and how to integrate

current and historic data.

There was also a poster session in which at-

tendees interacted with presenters on topics in-

cluding multivariate methods of STM develop-

ment and how to develop ecological site keys.

Jamin Johanson, the lead organizer, did a great

job facilitating the talks and presenting several of

his own.

International Mountain Section Dinner Monday January 30, 5:30 PM

Olive Garden River Front Park, 221 N. Wall St

Spokane, (509)624-1853. Directions: About 3 blocks

west of Convention Center on W. Spokane Falls Blvd.,

then south ½ block on North Wall St.

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Schedule Changes &

Errata

Monday, 8:30am-11:30 CANCELLED: The Land Treatment Digital Library Project Advisory meeting has

been cancelled.

Monday, 1-5pm UPDATED INFO: At the GLCI Riparian Grazing Forum, John Williams will replace Rod

Childers in the 1:30 presentation.

Tuesday 8:00am, CANCELLED: The Technical Session, “Vegetation Management & Restoration” will open at 8:20 rather than 8:00. The 8:00 presentation, “Zero-till openers for sod-seeding alfalfa in crested wheatgrass”

by P. Jefferson & N. Greg, is cancelled.

Tuesday-Wednesday CANCELLED: Poster Session A #61, p.78 of Pocket Guide, “Wolves and Wild Horses: When old world predator and prey meet again on the sagebrush steppe in Nevada” by R. Leary & T. Wolfe.

Tuesday-Wednesday ADDED: Poster Session B #2, p.81 of Pocket Guide, will be “PhD Student 2011

Winning Poster.”

Tuesday-Wednesday CANCELLED: Poster Session B #26, p.84 in Pocket Guide, “Survey of impacts of insect biological control on soil N transformations in Tamarix

-invaded ecosystems in the Great Basin” by S. Uselman, K. Snyder, R. Blank.

Tuesday-Wednesday ADDED: Poster Session B #26 will now be, “2011

MS Student Winning Poster.”

Headings in Pocket Guide pages 82, 84, 86,

88 should read, “Tuesday-Wednesday.”

Help the SRM earn

$30,000!!!

If we spend $80,000 on food & beverage

(ticketed events and cash bar sales only) SRM

will earn a $30,000 credit towards our rent at

the Spokane Convention Center. We are cur-

rently at $64,200 or 80%!! Our target for cash

bar sales at the Trade Show mixer is $4000

(non-alcoholic drinks count too). There will be

lots of food tonight. We will supply the food,

you need to purchase a few beverages.

Thank you!!!

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Rangeland Infra is a data management tool

originally created to track constructed

features on the national forest lands.

Come join us for demonstrations and

discussion on the following topics:

1:00 - Create Permit process & the Permit Map

2:00 - Entering short term monitoring

3:00 - GI tool for data cleanup

4:00 - Q/A session on Upward Reporting

Tuesday, January 31st

1-5pm in Spokane

Convention Center 102 B&C.

RANGELAND INFRA

Trade Show Vendor

Symposium

Wednesday Morning 8am SCC

201A. Five vendors will demon-

strate their products and answer

your questions.

Wilbur Ellis

BFI Native Seeds

Tru-Test Fence

L&H Seed Co.

Great Basin Science Delivery

Project

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High School Youth Forum Presentation Session

Room 111B Spokane Convention Center Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Session Moderator: Bracken Marburger, 2012 HSYF President

Time Speaker and Section Title

8:00 A.M. Welcome and Introductions

8:15 Makayla Heisler, South Dakota Where Do Grouse Stand in Our Rangelands?

8:27 Isaac Studtmann, Pacific Northwest Juniper Management in Eastern Oregon

8:39 Wyatt Warr, Utah Water Our Most Valuable Resource

8:51 Erin O’Brien, Texas Got Rain?

9:03 Nakayla Lestina, Colorado The Importance of Native Pollinators and

Their Habitats

9:15 Tevyn Baldwin, Nebraska Sainfoin – A New Solution

9:27 Morgan Klaiber, International Mountain Wind Power; A Rancher’s Perspective

9:39 Cole Brown, Idaho Range Management to Promote Perennial

Vegetation Growth for Healthy Rangelands

10:05 Nicole Taylor, California-Pacific Solution: Biodiversity

10:17 David Everhart, Colorado Drought Management

10:29 Lupe Villasenor, Pacific Northwest Horse Lake Ranch Restoration

10:41 Josslynn Barker, Utah Noxious Weeds

11:53 Laura Gorecki, Nebraska Hay: It’s What’s for Dinner

11:05 Serina Lee Pack, New Mexico What Will Grow? Native Grass Research to

Assist in Mining Reclamation Projects

11:17 Amanda Lee, Arizona Want to Invest in Some Real Estate? Invest

in Bat Condos!

11:30 LUNCH

1:30 P.M. Clint Sorensen, Utah To What Extent Does the Loss of Sagebrush

Cause the Decline in the Sagegrouse Popula-

tion?

1:42 Charli Swinford, Texas Prescribed Burns: A Force of Good

1:54 Alyssa Johnson, Pacific Northwest Dealing With Drought: Managing Your

Land and Livestock

2:06 Kassidy Linabery, Nebraska Cherry County Ecological Diversity

2:18 Kaylee Anthony, California-Pacific Ravenous Delicacy

2:30 Cheyanne Foeppel, Colorado Grain-Finished Beef vs. Grass-Finished

Beef: The Truth Revealed

3:00 Austin Schultz, Nevada Birth Control in Wild Horses

3:12 Victoria Cross, Idaho The Effect of Increase CO₂ on Annual Plant

Growth

3:24 Aaron Weishuhn, Texas Reclaiming the Ranch

3:45 Judges’ Critique

4:00 Forum Pictures

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Sponsors The Idaho and Pacific Northwest Sections of the Society for Range Management

heartily thank the following meeting sponsors:

Platinum:

Silver:

Presenting:

Rancher’s Forum

DuPont

Granite Seed

Idaho Farm Bureau

Leffel, Otis & Warwick CPAs

Alan Schroeder, lawyer

Washington Chapter SRM

Western Reclamation

Coffee Break

BKS Environmental

Giant Water Tanks

Granite Seed

Sharp Bros. Seed

Curtis & Curtis Seed

Synergy Resource Solutions,

Inc.

GLCI Riparian Forum

Nevada Section SRM

Leffel, Otis & Warwick CPAs

PNW Section SRM

Texas Section SRM

Native American Rangeland Forum

Clearwater Seed

Colville Confederated Tribes Range

Department

Wild & Feral Horse Symposium

Nevada Dept. of Wildlife

Nevada Wilderness Project

Roaring Springs Ranch

Event Sponsors

Student Activity Sponsors

Dow AgroSciences

Gebber’s Farm

PNW Section SRM

Washington Chapter SRM

Western Reclamation

Mongolian Symposium

Dow AgroSciences

Mongolian SRM

Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Jim O’Rourke

Peabody Energy

SRM Spokane 2012 Planning

Committee

Utah State University

PNW

Section

SRM