members of those colleges and universities that teach range management 

 throughout the United States. We keep a close liaison with this group and 

 working together we can insure that the philosophy of the Society is dis- 

 played in those people who come forth as trained range managers of the future. 

 Not only trained in the art and science of range management, but we feel 

 these people should be supplemented with study in other various natural re- 

 source disciplines as well as the social sciences and very specifically in 

 oral and written communications. I think this is one of the things that we 

 all need to work on as much as anything else. 



I mentioned the professionalism that is an individual characteristic 

 that results from one's attitude or state of mind as much as it does from 

 training. Certainly professionalism doesn't depend on formal training in 

 a field. 



As we look at rangeland inventories, we feel that to foster land mana- 

 gement and be of the greatest benefit to man, that we need an inventory of 

 the area we are working with and that we would like to see this experiment 

 worldwide. Certainly, to improve it within this country and then to look 

 at it from the standpoint of an overall world situation and this is a major 

 goal within the International Rangeland Commission. To look at inventory 

 of rangeland to see which area is of greatest possibility for intensive man- 

 agement improvement and to increase production of those goods and services 

 that we can expect from rangeland. We realize that the intelligent use of 

 the range resoiirce must be based on economic and social decisions that are 

 compatable with the capabilities of the biological systems, and that in the 

 long run the economic and social actions cannot be at variance with the ec- 

 ological principles and the capacity of this resource. We recognize that 

 livestock grazing is most often a principle use of rangeland due to the in- 

 herit nature of the land itself as has been pointed out by Dr. Dyksterhuis. 



We recognize that the production of protein is of vital importance to 

 the world food situation and that livestock offer a real opportunity for the 

 conversion of the product of rangeland to this needed world commodity. We 

 recognize that wildlife management knowledge and practices must be integrated 

 into the range management system, and again this has been alluded to this 

 morning. Water is a resource from rangeland and one that I think we are re- 

 cognizing more and more as one of our major products of this vast area of 



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