8:00am      Registration opens

9:30am      Welcome and Overview

9:50am      Session 1 – Weather and Climate

Building Climate Resilience across California's Rangelands: Approaches for Sustainable Ranching, Adaptive Management, and Collaborative Conservation, Leslie Roche, Russell L. Rustici Endowed Specialist in Rangeland Watershed Science, Professor of Cooperative Extension in Rangeland Management, UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences

Climate-smart Agriculture: Rangeland Soil Health, Dr. Anthony T. O’Geen, Professor & Soil Resource Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Russell L. Rustici Endowed Chair in Rangeland Watershed Science, UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources

Outlook for California rangelands, Daniel Swain, Climate Scientist, California Institute for Water Resources, UC ANR and Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, UCLA

11:20am    Networking, Poster Session, and Lunch

1:00pm   Session 2 – Building Wildfire Resilience

California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force: Expanding the use of prescribed grazing as a landscape management tool, Patrick Wright, Director of the Governor's California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force

State-of-the-Art Strategies for Reducing Wildfire Risk on Forests and Rangelands, Dan Macon, UCCE Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor, Central Sierra, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources; and Bianca Artadi Soares Shapero, Targeted Grazing Practitioner and Project Manager at Star Creek Land Stewards Inc.

Ranching through Wildfire, Tracy Schohr, UCCE Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor, Plumas, Sierra, and Butte Counties

2:20pm    Break

2:50pm      Session 3 – Ranching with Wolves

Status of Gray Wolf Population and Conservation in California, Axel Honeycutt, State Wolf Coordinator, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Understanding the Scale and Scope of Wolf – Cattle Conflict on California’s Ranches, Ken Tate, Professor and CE Specialist in Rangeland Watershed Sciences, UC Davis

Quantifying the Economic Impacts of Ranching with Wolves, Tina Saitone, Professor of Extension, UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics

4:20pm      Wrap-up Discussion

4:30pm      Mixer, Networking and Poster Session