Presentation
Time:
Protecting the Last Grasslands
Date:
9:30 am –
3:00 pm
Bloomfield Community Center
101 S Broadway
Bloomfield Ne 68718
Bloomfield Ne 68718
Contact:
Nebraska Extension - Cedar County, (402) 254-6821, cedar-county@unl.edu
Please pre-register by Nov 6 to the Cedar County Extension Office at 402-254-6821.
Dirac Twidwell is a Science Advisor for the USDA NRCS, Great Plains region, and a national science team member for a new Great Plains Grasslands Strategy under the Working Lands for Wildlife Program. His program focuses on how relatively simple changes in rangeland vegetation affect every citizen in Nebraska. Dr. Twidwell has published in prestigious journals and has been an investigator on nearly $23 million in funding since joining UNL in 2013. His research has shown how natural disasters, collapses in rural livelihoods on working rangelands, the depletion of biological diversity, social programs like school funding, and the loss of unique cultural heritage are all threatened by the erosion of resilience in rangelands due to woody plant encroachment. Ultimately, the focus of his program is to create novel solutions to these types of threats and demonstrate how to enhance the resilience of working lands to better cope with the sustainability challenges of this century.
Dirac Twidwell is a Science Advisor for the USDA NRCS, Great Plains region, and a national science team member for a new Great Plains Grasslands Strategy under the Working Lands for Wildlife Program. His program focuses on how relatively simple changes in rangeland vegetation affect every citizen in Nebraska. Dr. Twidwell has published in prestigious journals and has been an investigator on nearly $23 million in funding since joining UNL in 2013. His research has shown how natural disasters, collapses in rural livelihoods on working rangelands, the depletion of biological diversity, social programs like school funding, and the loss of unique cultural heritage are all threatened by the erosion of resilience in rangelands due to woody plant encroachment. Ultimately, the focus of his program is to create novel solutions to these types of threats and demonstrate how to enhance the resilience of working lands to better cope with the sustainability challenges of this century.