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As researchers and educators, one of our biggest challenges is bridging the gap between research, teaching, and outreach.  This is especially true when it comes to getting pertinent information in the hands of those who make the most difference—private landowners.  As we discover practical solutions to natural resource management problems, we will share those solutions with private landowners and other resource managers via our Research Highlights publications and regional landowner meetings and conferences.

Upcoming Events...

Prescribed Burning Association Meeting

Please plan to attend the start up meeting for a Trans-Pecos Prescribed Burning Association.  The Borderlands Research Institute have partnered with local landowners to organize a regional prescribed burning association.  The meeting will be February 25, 2009 at the SRSU’s Range Animal Science Center.  Dr. Butch Taylor, founder of the Edward’s Plateau Prescribed Burning Association, and a long time proponent of prescribed fire, will be on hand to help local landowners complete the necessary paperwork to begin a local association. 

Prescribed fire is a valuable tool in rangeland management, but its application can be daunting to private landowners.  The purpose of the meeting is to form an association composed of ranchers that can assist one another in using prescribed fire.  Members of a prescribed burn association share equipment and labor, benefit from each others experience and training, and promote the use of prescribed fire on rangelands.  The prescribed burn association will also set standards for prescribed burning so that this tool is applied in a safe manner.  Prescribed burn associations can obtain grants for equipment and training that are not eligible to individuals.

The meeting will give ranchers an opportunity to discuss prescribed burning and begin the process of forming an association.  For more information, contact Dr. Bonnie Warnock at bwarnock@sulross.edu or 432.837.8488.