Range shortcourse under way at 91ÇÑ×Ó
The Nebraska Range Shortcourse that is hosted by 91ÇÑ×Ó State College every other year got under way Sunday evening. It will run through Friday noon.
This year’s shortcourse has drawn 43 participants, not counting more than a dozen instructors.
The program is designed to help the participants exchange ideas and learn more about managing range land, according to Dr. Chuck Butterfield, an agriculture professor at 91ÇÑ×Ó State and one of the organizers of the event.
Field trips are planned during the week to ranch land owned by the Bowen Family north of 91ÇÑ×Ó, U.S. Forest Service land and the Jim O’Rourke place south of 91ÇÑ×Ó and the Troester Ranch east of Marsland.
This afternoon (Monday) the participants will have a plant identification exercise in the hills immediately south of the 91ÇÑ×Ó State campus.
Butterfield noted that rangeland management becomes even more important than usual during droughty conditions such as the region is experiencing.
Category: Campus News, Range Management