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Grazing Field Day

June 17 | 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Hitchcock Nature Center

Pre-registration is required. To ensure a high-quality participant experience, we are unable to accommodate walk-ins. Please click the icon above to register today.

Are you a cattle owner, landowner, conservation professional, or interested in public-private grazing partnerships?

Join us at Hitchcock Nature Center for a Conservation Grazing Field Day. The morning session will include discussions on grazing public lands, the benefits of native forage, and conservation grazing strategies. Lunch will be served, and a field tour will follow. Field tour highlights will include fire-grazing interactions, mobile mineral feeder impacts, exclosures, hiker gates, and solar water pumps.

Speakers include:

Aric Ping | Natural Resource Technician, Pottawattamie Conservation

Amy Crouch | Little Sioux Project Director, The Nature Conservancy  

Matt Vermeersch | Owner, Root and Raise Land and Livestock

Kayla Creek | Livestock Specialist, Iowa NRCS

Tucker Lutter | Iowa Conservation Manager, Audubon Upper Mississippi River

Chris Helzer | Nebraska Director of Science and Stewardship, The Nature Conservancy 

Contact: Kylie Jacott
Phone: (712) 828-2140
Email: [email protected]

Categories: Community, Educational, Outdoors

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