Members of the Modoc Washoe Experimental Stewardship Program Steering Committee will discuss various rangeland management topics when they hold a business meeting, Thursday February 5 in Modoc County. The meeting is open to the public.
On February 5th, the committee will convene a business meeting from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bureau of Land Management Surprise Field Station, 602 Cressler St., in Cedarville. Members of the public are welcome to attend,
Call: 1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 974 6590 7929
Passcode: 630060
The committee will accept public comments at an appointed time during the meeting. Agenda topics include Wildlife Research: population studies and hunting season, Wild Horses and Burros: Carter/Coppersmith Buckhorn gather EA and Mustang Camp, and new grazing regulations.
Committee members will provide status reports from their areas of representation, and managers from the Bureau of Land Management and the Modoc National Forest will provide reports.
The Modoc Washoe steering committee is part of the national Experimental Stewardship Program, created by Congress in the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978. The program encourages rangeland management innovation and incentives for improving conditions on public rangelands. It focuses on public lands managed by the BLM’s Applegate Field Office east of the Warner Mountains, and Modoc National Forest lands in the Warner Mountain Ranger District.
The committee membership includes livestock grazing permit holders, and representatives from the BLM Applegate Field Office and Modoc National Forest Warner Mountain Ranger District. Representatives from the California and Nevada departments of fish and wildlife are members, along with representatives from the timber industry, invasive weed control interests, wild horse and burro interests, resource conservation districts, the Natural Resources Conservation Service,
local government, and environmental and sporting interests from California and Nevada. Representatives from the University of California and University of Nevada cooperative extension services also are members.
Source: Modoc Record
