Holistic management expert to speak at CSC Nov. 9

Malmberg, a native of Gordon, Nebraska, will speak in the Chadron State College Student Center Monday, Nov. 9, from 5 to 9 p.m. The $15 registration fee covers the cost of the meal. NGLC will cover the cost of all student registrations. Attendees must register by Nov. 4 to reserve a meal by calling Christi Yeatts-Sprague at the Dawes County Extension Office at 308-432-3373.

Malmberg is a third-generation rancher and the recipient of many honors from agricultural organizations, environmental and wildlife interests, including the National Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen Beef Association. As founder and president of Ranchers Management Company, Malmberg managed ranch properties and consulted for individual ranches in the western U.S. for nearly 20 years.

For 31 years, he owned and operated Twin Creek Ranch, south of Lander, Wyoming. The ranch served as a laboratory for master’s thesis and other academic studies concerning the interaction of properly managed grazing and sage grouse habitat, wildlife friendly fences and migration, riparian habitat and migratory songbird populations.

Malmberg has been a practitioner of holistic management for nearly 30 years. He is a field professional for the Savory Institute and serves as the managing member of the Holistic Holdings International, LLC, which promotes the large-scale restoration of the world’s grasslands. He also serves on the board of directors of Grasslands-LLC and is the senior regional manager for the Northern Great Plains.

Insights Malmberg plans to discuss include the following:

• Key insights turning range management upside down.

• How do we practice holistic management?

• How holistic management deals with complex systems like ecosystems, finance and social relations.

• Results of holistic planned grazing.

• Planning, testing and assuming we are wrong.

• Can a cowboy learn quality of life?

• Moving grazing animals to the right place, at the right time, for the right reason, with the right behavior.

For more information about the program, contact Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition coordinator Ron Bolze at ron@nebraskagrazinglands.org.