Rangelander has helped ranches increase their annual profit by over $500,000.

Planning

Rangelander has committed to help families and other management entities build plans to maintain the integrity of the land. We have worked with all types of operations resident, non-resident, large and small to create successful plans to operate profitably and transition into the future. In most cases, ranches we work with created better plans and have found methods to be far more profitable while maintaining or improving the land. One large ranch improved their profit in excess of $500,000 per year. Another ranch found that including a hunting operation, that is a focused part of the ranch plan, generated over $350,000 of additional revenue per year. However, it remains true that there is no one formula for success or succession, and concerted effort is needed to find the best choice for the individual ranch.

Maintaining the integrity of ranch operations is absolutely essential to the sustainability of the land. Loss of ranches due to poor profitability, no succession plan or no operational plan for the future generally causes fragmentation of the landscape. Fragmentation decreases or eliminates the capability to make land management decisions that make a real difference.

Dr. Roy Roath has contracted with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department doing wildlife habitat/rangeland management planning on crucial wildlife areas in Wyoming for 15 years. Roy has the unique knowledge and experience to analyze and understand vegetative composition and landscapes, determine what ecological functions are broken, and develop management strategies to help them function and produce to their full potential.
Gary Butler
Perhaps one of the most useful tools for assessing grazing impacts to rangeland resources is the Grazing Response Index (GRI) developed by Dr. Roath during the mid-90’s. The GRI has greatly improved our ability to plan grazing to provide for plant development and recovery and to respond to vagaries in weather.
Floyd Reed