Our Mission Impossible, a Land Ethic for Every Child

Abstract

As the human population grows, less land is available to support each person. Both the land and the people who depend on it are changing. Land care professionals and the organizations they form must also change. Whether those changes are for better or worse depends on how well we understand and adapt to change.

I was a Texas A&M graduate student when I attended the Society of Range Management (SRM) Convention in Great Falls, Montana. My young wife asked if I was sure I should spend our scarce money to become part of an organization that held its annual meeting in the middle of winter at frigid locations. Dad was equally skeptical. But I took my GI issued overcoat from mothball storage and went anyway. The meeting changed our lives. 

DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v36i3_box