MANDAN, N.D. — ‘Our Regenerative Ecosystem’ will be the theme for the 2018 North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition annual winter conference in Jamestown, N.D. National speakers for this one-day event will be Deborah Clark, Birdwell & Clark Ranch, Henrietta, Texas, and Author Didi Pershouse. Clark is a rancher focusing on holistically managing 4000-5000 stockers on 14,000 acres. Pershouse is the author of “The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money,” and the “Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function: A Teacher’s Manual.”
North Dakota speakers presenting at this conference are:
- Pete Kronberg – Forbes, N.D. Pete Kronberg is an innovative sheep producer and grazier, and a regenerative native landscape manager, and
- Ken Miller – Miller Ranch, Fort Rice, N.D. Ken and Bonnie Miller are the 2017 Leopold Conservation Award Winners. They operate a 2,000-acre farm and ranch. Over the past ten years, they have seeded the majority of their cropland back to a diverse mixture of grasses and legumes to complement their intensive grazing system.
There will be a time for questions at 4:30 p.m. followed by a social and cash bar with all participants and speakers.
The conference runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, at the Quality Inn & Suites, Jamestown, ND. Registration deadline is January 10. Registrations can be mailed to NDGLC, PO Box 325, Mandan, ND 58554, or made online at www.ndglc.com; you may also call 701-430-0428.
Tickets are $30 per person, $20 for NDGLC members, and include a noon luncheon. A block of rooms has been held under the NDGLC Winter Conference at the Quality Inn & Suites, 507 25th St. SW, Jamestown, ND. Call 701-252-3611 to reserve. For more information, email contact@ndglc.com.
This conference is sponsored in part by Natural Resources Trust and The North Dakota Natural Resources Conservation Services.
— The North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition
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