Ten Sleep Ranchers Mentor GrowinG Interns
Laura and Keith Galloway first read about UW’s GrowinG internship program in the local paper.
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It’s not easy to find the Mike Smith highway, even if you know what you’re looking for: a faint two-track meandering through several bumpy miles of sagebrush outside Saratoga, Wyoming.
That hasn’t stopped the route’s namesake—retired rangeland management specialist Mike Smith—from visiting this site annually for nearly 40 years. Every July since 1987, Smith has traversed this windswept stretch of rangeland to collect data for his longest-running research project.
Originally, his objective was to examine how sagebrush removal affected vegetation in the area. “But, in order to effectively do that, we collected a lot of other information, including information on annual precipitation,” he explains. Over time, the study has not only provided data on the economics of sagebrush treatment, but also on the relationship between annual precipitation and forage production, sagebrush regeneration, and more.
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