About Katlyn
The Results Oriented Grazing for Ecological Resilience (ROGER) collaborative group was formed in 2016 by a group of Nevada ranchers and several federal and state agency staff and other local partners. The purpose of this rancher-led collaborative is to achieve land management objectives that improve overall ecological resilience, landscape health and productivity, and support ranching. Over the past four years, this group has strived to create avenues to bring various parties together to communicate, share information, ask the “hard” questions, work through disagreements, and learn together to develop solutions to the issues at hand. This group functions as an information, learning, and communication venue that supports individuals and groups to find new and adaptive land management techniques. The group is focused on the following topics: outcome-based grazing; adaptive management planning; wildfire management and assessment and monitoring. This collaborative model of doing business is allowing for creative and innovative ways for numerous stakeholders to work together across ownership boundaries to find solutions and common ground to landscape scale issues.
Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush Rangelands is supporting ROGER by providing funding to contract with Resource Concepts, Inc. to bring on board Katlyn Mendive as the ROGER Facilitator. Mendive was hired as the part time coordinator in August of 2020 and will help coordinate this group’s future endeavors. Additional funding partners include the NV BLM State office, the USFWS, and the US Forest Service. Listen to a webinar about their work here.
BLM Offices Supported: Nevada BLM State Office, Multiple District/Field Offices
Position Established: 2020
