Integrating GPS and GIS Technology to Improve Land Treatments 

Workshop Hosted by the Rangeland Technology and Equipment Council (RTEC)

Society For Range Management 62nd Annual Meeting (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Sunday, February 8, 2009
 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM,  Room: Nambe 

Mike Pellant & Nancy Shaw, Organizers

1:00  Workshop overview  [abstract & presentation]
         Mike Pellant, RTEC Chair and USDI BLM, Boise, ID
 

1:15  Looking at the big picture to plan land treatments [abstract & presentation]
         Eva Strand, University of Idaho, Moscow
 

1:40  Precision herbicide spraying with GPS technology [abstract]
         Barney Lee, North Star Vegetation Management Specialist, Inc., Gardendale, TX
 

2:30   Integrating remote sensing and observations into decision support systems for invasive
          weeds [abstract & presentation]
          E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD
 

2:55   Adapting GPS technology to rangeland reclamation [abstract & presentation]
          Glade Jones, Hindsite Co., La Barge, WY 
 

3:20   Using GPS to track livestock on the landscape [abstract & presentation]
          Pat Clark, USDA ARS Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID
 

4:30   Business Meeting
          Plan RTEC Workshop for Denver 2010 meeting
 

For more information regarding RTEC or this workshop, contact:

              Mike Pellant (Michael_Pellant@blm.gov) or Nancy Shaw (nshaw@fs.fed.us)