California Browsing Academy

2004 Browsing Academy

Colfax, CA

This event is closed for 2008, please check back.

Fees and Enrollment: $175 (includes lunches and course materials) 
NO REFUNDS.  Your check or credit card enrollment guarantees your space.  No walk-in registration provided due to set-up needed for the Academy hands-on activities.


Miscellaneous:
Accommodations - Browsing Academy
Map to Edwards Tree Farm, Colfax, CA
Browsing Academy Photo Album

 About The California Browsing Academy
The purpose of the California Browsing Academy is to teach, demonstrate and provide practical experience in using goats to reduce fuel loads and control invasive plants. The California Browsing Academy will be a three day course emphasizing the practical application of research based grazing and browsing principles using goats. Our target audiences are ranchers, land managers, and agency personnel who manage livestock on privately owned or public pasture and rangeland. Participants learn by actually applying the principles taught in real brushy areas with live goats.


After completing the Academy, course participants will be able to:

1. Identify target plants to be grazed to determine best time of the year to browse.
2. Apply principles of time control, animal impact, and stock density to reduce fuel loads and invasive species.
3. Assess carrying capacity of brush and forage and develop strategies to adjust stocking rate.
4. Monitor results of browsing by using the indicators of rangeland health to determine whether browsing strategies are meeting desired goals and if any change is needed.
5. Apply principles of animal behavior to reduce handling stress.
6. Determine supplementation needs of goats.
7. Develop a herd health and breeding program.
8. Develop marketing strategies for different classes of goats

  For More Information
Contact Roger Ingram at the UC Cooperative Extension Office/Placer County, located at 11477 E Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603, call (530) 889-7385, or email at rsingram@ucdavis.edu

 Accommodations - Browsing Academy  

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ON_LINE Registration 2008 California BROWSING Academy
Browsing Academy Photo Album