Late Registration $150 after December 28, 2018
Hotel Options
Holiday Inn and Suites (575) 538-2525
Comfort Inn (575) 534-1883
Quality Inn (575) 534-1111
Tour Information
The Gila Cliff Dwellings Tour will start at 10:30 with an hour of drive time. The drive will go through the Gila National Forest to the Cliff Dwellings of the Mimbres branch of the Mogollon Native American Tribe. The tour will include a history of use on the land and river over 700 years ago. A hike and tour up to the cliff dwellings and archeology site. One of our NRCS State Office Archeologist did her master thesis on the cliff dwellings and will be the trail guide and moderator for the tour. Total tour time 6 hours with 2 hours of drive time.
The Copper Mine tour will start at noon. It takes 15 minutes to get there. There will be a guide taking the participants into the open pit (its huge!) they will see mine equipment up close (Loaders and Yukons etc.) he will explain the geology/rock formations and the copper seams etc. they the participants will go to the labs and look at soil samples, mineral extraction procedures, etc. and then on the way out, the host will show some mine restoration sites. The rangeland they are creating after mining operations is beautiful! Total tour time 4.5 hours with 30 minutes of drive time.
Wednesday January 9th
10:30 am Gila Cliff Dwellings Tour (Optional but limited to 25 people + fee, sack lunch included)
12:00 pm Tyrone Copper Mine Open Pit Tour (Optional but limited to 35 people + fee, light snack included)
5:00 pm AZ/NM SRM Mixer
6:00 pm Section Business Meetings
7:00 pm Dinner (on your own)
Thursday January 10th
7:00 am Breakfast / Posters Up (Included w/ registration)
8:00 am Opening Speakers (10 min. ea.)
Jeff Witte, New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture
Judith Dyess, USFS Regional Office
8:30 am Collaboration / Relationships (30 min. ea.)
Ty Bays: Reclamation efforts and natural resource management at the Tyrone Mine
Shane Lyman: USFS Border Patrol Liason
Alejandro Carrillo: Greening the Chihuahuan Desert
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Education / Research (30 min. ea.)
Leticia Lister and Lan Hauser: 5 and 10 year monitoring results of aerially applied creosote treatments
Emilio Carrillo: Rangeland Analysis Platform
Dr. David Johnson: Regenerating the Diversity of Life in Soils-Hope for Farming, Ranching, Environment and Climate!
12:00 pm Lunch (Included w/ registration)
1:00 pm Range Livestock (45 min. ea.)
Dr. Craig Gifford, NMSU Beef Specialist: Cattle Nutrition on Rangelands
Larry Howery, UA Range Specialist and Professor: Potential to Genetically Select Cattle for Improved Grazing Distribution
2:30 pm Break
3:00 pm Education / Research (40 min. ea.)
Matt Reeves: Production Tool
Dr. Jeff Herrick: Land PKS tool
Chandra Holifield Collins, Soil Scientist, Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center- Rangeland Brush Estimation Toolbox (RaBET)
5:00 pm AZ/NM Social / Poster Session
6:00 pm AZ/NM Auction
7:00 pm Dinner / Awards and Recognition Banquet (Included w/ registration)
Key Note Speaker: Dr.Fred Provenza
Friday January 11th
7:00 am Breakfast (Included w/ registration)
8:00 am Young Professional / Student Presentations (~20 min. ea.)
Tatjana Mercado: Development of a Multidimensional Metric tonAssess Terrain Use of Rangeland Cattle.
Liz Delcamp: Analysis of 30-Plus Years of Monitoring on the Arizona Strip at the Landscape Scale (Preliminary Results)
Matthew McIntosh: Long-term Trends in Perennial Grass Production, Precipitation and Ambient Temperature in the Chihuahuan Desert
Arizona Section High School Youth Forum Delegates: Lauren Basteen and Alex Solano
Dave Stricklan: Dispersal of One-Seed Juniper (Juniperus monosperma) by a Diverse Frugivore Guild in Central New Mexico
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Young Professional / Student Presentations (30 min. ea.)
Natalya Robbins Sherman: Adaptive Management in Natural Resource Management
Yasser Almalki: Juniper sapling regrowth following targeted grazing treatments in relation to terpenoid concentration
Dr. Josh Grace: Importance of Maintaining Relationships and Coordination Among Public Land Stakeholders When Implementing Adaptive Management
12:00 pm Adjourn
