Range Academies
Topics
- Plant identification and grassland ecology
- Kansas Rangelands: Being Prepared, using adaptive management to be ready for whatever comes your way!
- Interactive Ecology...Know your plants
- Reclaim the Range: Tools and Strategies
- The Range Roadmaps: Getting Directions
- Landscape Art and Economics
- Planning the Future-Understanding the Past
- Rangelands Resources: Can you see harmony?
- Management Decisions: Beyond Educated Guesses
- Planning with Purpose: Putting it all Together
- Range Developments: Location, Location, Location!
- Managing rangelands for wildlife
- Managing rangelands for livestock types
- Forage and animal balance
- Sampling, measuring, and monitoring...evaluate what you have, decide what you want, check to see if you are making progress.
- Learn with your neighbors! Receive expert instruction from ranchers as well as agency and university staffs!
Academies
REGISTRATION FOR EACH ACADEMY ENDS ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE EVENT
Costs
Tuition, room and board is $350 per person. Additional people from the same ranch or outfit will be charged $300 per person.
Scholarships
Scholarships of $175 are available for ranchers and others. Scholarship forms must be received by the KGLC Coordinator no later than two weeks prior to the class beginning.
Apply for Range Academy Scholarship
Lodging
Both academies provide air-conditioned sleeping rooms with double occupancy. (Note: You do need to bring along your own bedding, towel and wash cloth.)
Meals
Meals are provided including a Wednesday evening steak fry (2 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 2 suppers).
Accommodations
At both sites are comfortable with easy access to range sites and learning areas.
KGLC Range Academy Sponsors
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- K-State Research and Extension
- K-State Experiment Station - Hays
- Fort Hays State University
- Westar Energy
- Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
- The Nature Conservancy
- KS Section - Society for Range Management
- Security State Bank, Scott City
- First National Bank, Scott City
- Feed-Lot Magazine
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Kansas Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
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