Meet Your Board

Meet your SECTION board

WE ARE RANGELANDS & WE REPRESENT YOU

past- president

Retta Bruegger

“One thing I love about rangelands is if you are a range nerd, even highway medians can be interesting. My favorite quote is by Jack Handy: ‘I don't think God put me on this planet to judge others. I think He put me on this planet to gather specimens and take them back to my home planet.’”

President

Courtney Hurst

PRESIDENT-elect

Dixie Crowe

"I love rangelands because the more you get to know them, the more they tell you about how their soils formed, their past use, who they are right now and why the current plant community is there, what wildlife they host, and what they could become in the future with some kind of change in management. You get to create a pretty amazing relationship with the land, if you listen."

Secretary

Amanda James

treasurer

lana Pearson

Board Member

Dan Nosal

"I love rangelands because they offer the opportunity for grazing animals, without artificial inputs, to convert native vegetation into a healthy grass-fed product. With proper holistic management, this can be achieved while regenerating the ecosystem for all life on the prairie. This regenerative grazing movement is why I am excited for the future of rangeland management!"

Board member

Baili Foster

" I love rangelands because the biodiversity can be subtle yet unique. At a first glance, they may seem uniform but once you actually stop and look around, you will notice the variety of color in the soil crusts, the abundance of insects working tirelessly, the simple wonder in the florets of a blue grama stem, and the song of a meadowlark."

Board member

emily lockard

Board member

Kasey Dollerschell

board member

CSU Range Club President and representative to the CSSRM Board

Committees & Chairs

Historian

Joshua Tashiro

“Nature is an open book for those who care to read. Each grass-covered hillside is a page on which is written the history of the past, conditions of the present, and the predictions of the future.” – John Ernest Weaver

Awards committee

Julie elliott

membership chair

Kathleen DelZell

"I'd attended many tours and meetings with my husband. After he died I needed to know how to manage land we'd bought in 1964. My family looks to me to take care of this land we love. How to learn? SRM, of course."