How to Starve an Ecosystem

Here is an interesting opportunity for folks. WWP is putting on a seminar about new research regarding how livestock disrupt the normal nitrogen flows.



We’re excited to invite you to the first installment of our 2025 Webinar Series! Join us for a compelling presentation that uncovers how human activities are reshaping the sagebrush steppe ecosystem—and what we can do to restore it.


Webinar Details

Title: How to Starve an Entire Ecosystem

Date/Time: January 23, 2025, at 12 PM MST

Presenter: Roger Long

Where: Zoom – Virtual

RSVP: Click here to RSVP

About the Webinar

Learn how livestock grazing and agriculture disrupt nutrient dynamics in the sagebrush-steppe, with a focus on nitrogen flows. Roger Long will shed light on how these disruptions impact plant and wildlife communities, offering insights into the challenges and opportunities for ecosystem restoration.


About the Speaker

Roger Long is an accomplished ecologist with a focus on nitrogen cycling in the sagebrush steppe ecosystem. His research emphasizes the critical role of nutrient dynamics in ecosystem health, with a special interest in sage-grouse recovery. Following a 20-year career in corporate information systems, Roger returned to academia to earn advanced degrees in biology and ecology. His professional journey spans teaching, research, and advocacy for conservation.


We look forward to seeing you there!

The WWP Team


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  1. Daryl Avatar

    93 million cows replaced the 60-million bison we had, not to mention all the other ungulates; you aren’t going to sell eating crickets to Americans like the WEF is trying to shove up our ass.

    Cheers

  2. Jonathan Ratner Avatar

    Nearly all of the 60 million bison were in the great plains which is an entirely different ecosystem, which can sustain large herds of large herbivores. The arid west had very low densities of herbivores.

    I suggest reading Mack and Thompson at https://sagesteppewild.box.com/s/kkwq7ony9nzk3fczxini2uo13gpdx8rq

    and the USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station GTR-169 at https://sagesteppewild.box.com/s/nryq7iaxwd684ar4q13q0qhtqme5lc6s

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Jonathan Ratner

Jonathan Ratner has been in the trenches of public lands conservation for nearly 25 years. He started out doing forest carnivore work for the Forest Service, BLM, and the Inter-agency Grizzly Bear Study Team, with some Wilderness Rangering on the Pinedale Ranger District. That work lead him directly to deal with the gross corruption within the federal agencies' range program.

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