the United States, and which hopefully we can expand to other coimtries of 

 the world with rangeland and rangeland problems that would be brought into 

 this particular committee. 



It's a commission that is sponsored by the Society for Range Management. 

 It has been the dream of some of our past presidents for the past several 

 years. It is one that we hope will focus on mutual problems of rangeland 

 of these three coimtries. Initially, a major effort here will be to carry 

 out, again, some of the goals of the Society for Range Management. Also to 

 bring in the seats of government of these three countries. We had a repre- 

 sentative from the United States Department of Agricultiire representing the 

 Assistant Secretary, Robert Long. We have some commitment from them, I think, 

 that will sponsor our next meeting of the commission to take a look at some 

 of these mutual problems. At the present time in Canada and Mexico, their 

 government is changing the same as ours could very soon, and we don't have 

 government names from these two countries at this time. We do have very 

 strong support from Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock Mr. Brauer 

 and Canada's Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Whelan. Again, this internation- 

 alism is helping to get mutual problems solved collectively. 



By the same token, in this area, the National Affairs Committee of the 

 Society for Range Management is working to develop the first world range- 

 land conference which will be held in Denver, Colorado in the summer of 1978 

 in the month of August. The conference will focus attention on rangeland 

 and associated problems, and some of the opportunities for improvement and 

 management of this resource. 



Our viewpoint toward range management is that we're looking at the hus- 

 bandry of rangeland, that it is a district discipline founded on ecological 

 principles, and that we must manage this land area and resource from it in 

 an ecological manner. 



Another major area or philosophy within the Society for Range Manage- 

 ment is that of education. We recognize that there is a continual need for 

 trained rangemen and range people to manage this resource. We feel that 

 these people must be trained in the structure, function, and analysis for 

 proper manipulation of the range ecosystem. A related organization that is 

 very close to the Society is the Range Science Education Council made up of 



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