Advanced mapping technology for advanced grazing management with Brady Allred and Bill Milton.
Rangeland covers about 1.1 million square miles in the United States - about a third of the country. These iconic grazing lands help feed the nation; act as recreational hubs that provide important revenue to local communities; supply water, mineral and wood resources; and are critical wildlife habitat.
Rangeland managers and landowners continuously battle conservation challenges from invasive weeds to megafires to ensure both healthy land and livelihoods, but it can be tricky to track how vegetation has fared over time across these large swaths of wide-open spaces. Researchers at the University of Montana, in collaboration with the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Bureau of Land Management, developed a new app to make that task a little simpler.
Blending old-school data collection with cutting-edge technology, the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is an interactive web app designed to assist in monitoring and managing America’s rangeland. RAP is powered by Google Earth Engine and merges machine learning, cloud-based computing, remote sensing and field data to provide the first-ever annual vegetation cover maps to help improve America’s rangeland.
Bill Milton and his wife Dana run 500 Angus cow/calf pairs on 15,000 acres of rolling prairie in central Montana. Their priority continues to be a healthy relationship between the land and the cattle while providing a rewarding way of life for their family. As stewards of the land, they continue to work toward returning the land to the original native grass, and Bill has use the Rangeland Analysis Platform extensively to advance his grazing management and landscape management.
Brady Allred is a professor of rangeland ecology and architect of the Rangeland Analysis Platform in the W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana. He works to advance rangeland conservation and management by focusing on rangeland dynamics, processes, and structure at broad scales.
Bill and Brady team up in this special Rural Resilience webinar to bring both technical and practical application of this innovative technology to your ranches and rangelands.
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