Steering Committee will discuss various rangeland management topics when they hold a field
tour and business meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 24 and 25, in Modoc County. The
tour and meeting are open to the public.
On June 24, the committee members will convene at 9 a.m. at the Modoc National Forest
Headquarters office, 225 West 8th St., in Alturas, and depart immediately for a tour of Fitzhugh
Creek meadow restoration projects. Members of the pubic must provide their own vehicles,
lunches and water. High clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles are required.
On June 25, the committee will convene a business meeting at 9 a.m. at the Bureau of Land
Management Surprise Field Station, 602 Cressler St., in Cedarville. Members of the public are
welcome to attend, or participate virtually via Zoom, using this registration link and information:
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/96455658087?pwd=vKYotJLFMjU089bobL5RN9H8KgNnoi.1
Meeting ID: 964 5565 8087
Passcode: 360463
By telephone: Dial +1 669 900 6833 US
The committee will accept public comments at 11:30 a.m.
Agenda topics include wild horse management, funding programs from the Natural Resources
Conservation Service, bear population information and hunting season potential in the Warner
Mountains, and a report from a master’s student’s study on the relationship between livestock
grazing and songbirds in Warner Mountain meadows. 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.
Members of the Modoc-Washoe Experimental Stewardship Program
