HRM activities
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Previous Years Activities
- NFWF grant is approved to help pay expenses on Reed Ranch improvements, Annual Symposium, Ecosystem Education for urban 6th graders at Hornsby Bend Biosolids facility, the HRM newsletters, website, resource directory and brochure.
- January, the HRM of TX Valley Conference in Edinburg
- February-March annual conference, Managing Texas Ecosystems for the Next Generation held in Kerrville
- March booth at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Convention
- May field day at the Reed Ranch
- Quarterly newsletters
- 1 Board meeting and several committee meetings
- March Annual Conference, Systems in Agriculture and Land Management in Fort Worth
- March booth at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Convention
- October field day with Elaine Ingham on soil biology
- ctober symposium on what comes after brush control, Reversing Desertification on Rangelands (link this to Newsletter - Fall 01 - p.6)
- November booth at the annual Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching in Austin
- Ongoing projects, La Copita Ranch near Alice and the Mitchell Lake sewage waste wetlands near San Antonio.
Individual members are busy hosting clinics in holistic management, livestock handling and grazing for profit. They are forming grazing clubs and growing clubs to support one another in the practice of holistic management. Jim & Judy Reed were awarded the Lone Star Stewardship Award. Several members are involved in the youth education at Hornsby Bend.
- The March Annual Meeting "Managing for Drier Times" in Waco
- May PlanIt Texas field day at the Red Corral Ranch near Wimberley, produced by the PlanIt Texas coalition, an HRM of TX project
- May ranchers symposium in Midland, hosted by the HRM of TX Advisory Board specifically for managers of large tracts
- An extensive membership survey of evaluation and desired direction and services
- June workshop in Fredericksburg on the principles of Holistic Management
- June field day at Clymer Meadows
- June field day at the Gifford Ranch
- July Prairies & Savannas Conference HRM as co-sponsor, several members speaking
- September animal handling seminar at the Maddox Ranch near Colorado City
- September workshop on "The Basics of Holistic Management" in San Angelo
- October seminar on sheep and goat research at the Sonora Agricultural Research Station, co-sponsored by TAES
- Quarterly Newsletters and board meetings
In addition, members stepped out on their own to form management clubs by phone (Guy Glosson), Malcolm Beck continued to keep his speaking calendar full, Peggy and Richard Sechrist were invited to speak in many venues, Dr. Wayne Hanselka was extremely active with the Society for Range Management, Clint Josey takes an active role in Native Prairies Association, John & Linda Heaton are active in Native Plant Society. The Sechrists are active in Texas Organic Growers Assn., Drs. Dick and Pat Richardson teach children Ecosystem appreciation and research methods at Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Facility.
- March, the HRM of TX Annual Meeting in San Marcos with focus on the management tools.
- April tour of the Rosewood Ranch in Ennis, TX
- May tour to a hunting ranch in Mexico that manages for wildlife using grazing as a tool.
- May field day at the Bamberger Ranch in Johnson City produced by the PlanIt Texas coalition
- May "How To" course in Holistic Resource Management in Brady at the Ford Ranch.
- September seminar on grading and processing beef, co-sponsored by Tarleton State University
- Quarterly issues of the Newsletter
- Quarterly board meetings and additional committee meetings. In addition, HRM leaders traveled far and wide to carry our message to others:
- In July, Drs. Dick & Pat Richardson traveled to New Mexico to teach a 5 day course " Holistic Management in the Classroom" for educators, sponsored by the Savory Center for Holistic Management.
- Peggy and Richard Sechrist traveled to Southern SAWG, SARE and TOGA conferences
- Panhandle members put on Promised Land Network symposiums every year
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