Thu, Mar 09
|Flagstaff USGS Building
USGS building
Soil Health Workshop Flagstaff
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2023, 8:00 AM – 3:40 PM MST
Flagstaff USGS Building, 2255 N Gemini Dr, Flagstaff, AZ 86004, USA
Schedule
ADDITIONAL EVENT INFO
Cost is $15 at the door and includes coffee and lunch, please mention any dietary restrictions on the registration sheet.
Accepted payments are cash, check, or Venmo (@Elise-Gornish).
Each workshop provides 5.5 CEUs accredited through the Society for Range Management.
DRAFT AGENDA
8:00 – 8:30 Check in and coffee
8:30 – 8:40 Welcome remarks, pre workshop survey
8:40 – 9:20 Soil health: Background and fundamentals
Jeffrey Silvertooth, University of Arizona
9:20 – 10:00 Applied soil health for arid plants
Robert Masson, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
10:00 – 10:40 Soil health and semi-arid rangelands: Insights from long-term grazing experiments
Justin Derner, USDA ARS
10:40 – 11:20 Enhancing soil function with conservation management in arid regions
Katie Lewis, Texas Tech University
11:20 – 12:00 Managing grazinglands for multiple ecosystem services and soil health goals
D.J. Eastburn, University of California, Davis
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:10 Native grass cropping for soil health
Mark Haberstich, The Nature Conservancy
2:10 – 2:50 Small scale erosion control to infiltrate water and support range health
Cie’na Schlaefli, Tohono O’odham Nation
2:50 – 3:30 Wrap up discussion and post workshop survey