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2016 MALPAI BORDERLANDS GROUP SCIENCE CONFERENCE TRANSCRIBED PRESENTATIONS

Introduction by Ben Brown, Science Coordinator:

Ben:  “Thanks everyone for coming I am really gratified by the good turnout.  The weather could have been better but we have a lot of good folks here and a good program lined up for you.  Last year we dedicated our meeting to Charlie Painter who was a herpetologist with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.  He was their endangered species herpetologist.  Charlie passed away last year after a long struggle with cancer.  There is a Charles W. Painter Memorial Fund.  You can make donations to that fund in Charlie’s honor. There are three different entities that benefit from this fund.  One is the Chiricahua Desert Museum, another is the Southwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, and the third is the New Mexico Artists Blacksmiths Association.  Charlie, in addition to being a very good scientist, was a very good blacksmith.  He grew up in a family of blacksmiths and he continued that.

  We actually have two keynote speakers.   We couldn’t decide which one we wanted to be the keynote    so we just decided to have two of them. The first speaker this morning is Doctor Nathan Sayre.  He is a professor and department head at the Department of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley, but he is pretty well known to folks down here.  He wrote our 10th anniversary account of the Malpai Borderlands.  He has written a number of other papers on ranching and particularly the economics of ranching.  He is going to talk to us this morning about things from his new book, which is basically a history of grazing in the western United States.”

MALPAI BORDERLANDS GROUP 2016 SCIENCE CONFERENCE
MALPAI BORDERLANDS GROUP 2016 SCIENCE CONFERENCE

Keynote Speaker 1-Dr. Nathan Sayre

Nathan:  “Thank you Ben, and Bill, and Malpai.  It’s a pleasure to be here.  Thank you all for coming.  I am in the very,  very closing stages of finishing a book which I have been working on for probably 15 years…if you include all of the research,  and all the time when I was down here.   It’s a history of ‘range science,’ more than a history of grazing.  It’s a topic which for whatever reason, maybe lack of interest, has almost never been written about.   It’s a topic that historians have neglected.   And in the next couple of weeks I hope to send out the final version.  The University of Chicago Press, if they work quickly, might have it out by the end of this year.

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Keynote Speaker   Tom Sheridan

Ben Brown:  “We are off to a great start and I think the next presentation is going to be equally important to you.   Tom Sheridan is a research anthropologist at the Southwest Center and Professor of Anthropology at The University of Arizona, School of Anthropology.   He has conducted ethnographic and   ethno historic   research in the southwest and northern Mexico since 1971.  Along with Nathan Sayre he edited a very comprehensive volume looking at ranching and livestock in the west called    Stitching the West Back Together, and that’s the title of his presentation.”

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Doug Tolleson                                                                                                                                                                              The Ins and outs of planning for drought for ranch families

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2016 MBG Science Conference
Dennis and Deb Moroney                                                                                                                           

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2016 MBG Science Conference
Denny Iversen and Jennifer Schoonen                                                                                                                                               How can rancher-led collaboratives move into the future: dealing with succession and change.

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