Learning From the Dust Bowl

Abstract

Sixty- ve years ago a group of people working on land that was too cold, too dry, too hot, or too high for crops or intensive forestry came together in Salt Lake City. They formed the American Society of Range Management (now SRM) to focus the emerg- ing science of land management on rangelands. They recognized that rangelands had deteriorated when even the best known agricultural practices of the time were applied. The emerging science of ecology became the cornerstone of the new profession. And managing change was their long suit.

DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v35i1_box