Key Functions
  • Communicates Range Branch extension materials to clients, districts and partners.
  • Works with partners to develop opportunities for client and staff learning.
 

Range Extension Education

Rangeland Management School

BC Rangeland Management School

The BC Rangeland Management School is a multi-agency partnership which includes: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; BC Cattlemens’ Association; BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands; BC Ministry of Forests and Range; Ducks Unlimited Canada; Grassland Conservation Council of British Columbia and Thompson Rivers University. 

Over seven hundred participants from ranches, First Nations, government agencies and other interest groups have attended one or both of the two courses now offered across BC by the school since it started in 2007.

The school’s mission is “To collaboratively deliver a rangeland management extension program, based on scientific principles and practices, throughout the province.”

Course #1 is a classroom introduction on ‘The Principles of Rangeland Management’ for the topics of: plant growth; time and timing of grazing; rangeland nutrition for cattle; and cattle behaviour on rangelands. 


Course #2 is a classroom and field workshop introduction to ‘The Grazing Response Index’ (GRI) which is a grazing management decision aid that builds on the rangeland management principles introduced in Course #1 to support practical grazing management decision making.

For the school’s current schedule please see BC Rangeland Management School site on the British Columbia Cattlemens’ Association web page at: 

http://www.cattlemen.bc.ca/rms.htm

Partnering for Rangeland Education is an article on the BC Rangeland Management School in the recent issue of BC Grasslands published by the Grassland Conservation Council of BC and it may be viewed at:

http://www.bcgrasslands.org/bc_grasslands_magazine_winter_09.htm

For further information please contact Russ Horton, Range Extension Specialist, Range Branch at Russ.Horton@gov.bc.ca or 250 371-3826.

FRPA Range Training Guide

The FRPA Range Training Guide outlines the major changes to range planning and practices contained in the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA) and the corresponding Range Planning and Practices Regulation (RPPR). This guide also covers changes to range practices as a result of the amendments made to the Forest Practices Code and regulations on December 17, 2002.

This guide is an overview guide and is designed to be read together with: