Central Coast Rangeland Coalition

Adaptive rotational grazing and soil carbon sequestration

20220421
Adaptive rotational grazing and soil carbon sequestration

Thursday April 21 2022

Paicines Ranch, Paicines CA

Goal: Improve participant understanding of the role of grazing management in sequestering soil carbon on working California rangelands 

  1. Objectives:

    1. Participants will learn about the role of grazing management as a soil carbon sequestration strategy on rangelands and how it compares to other rangeland carbon sequestration strategies.
    2. Participants will learn about adaptive rotational grazing management and soil carbon sequestration, including:
      1. Defining adaptive rotational grazing - how does it compare to other soil carbon sequestration strategies on rangelands?
      2. The science of the impact of adaptive rotational grazing on soil carbon sequestration. This includes new research results, past insights, and knowledge gaps for future research.  
      3. Producer motivations, barriers, and costs of using adaptive rotational grazing 
    3. Landowners, ranchers, scientists and conservation interests will consider how soil carbon sequestration is measured (a) and how this interacts with current policies such as emerging carbon markets and California’s Healthy Soils Program (b).

Instructors

Paige Stanley  PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley

Grey Hayes Cal Poly Swanton Pacific Ranch

Sallie Calhoun  Pacines Ranch Owner

Carrie Richards, Richards Ranch, Oregon House, CA

Spencer Smith, Jefferson Center for Holistic Management, Modoc, CA

Darrell Sweet , rancher, Alameda County

Allan Renz , rancher, San Benito, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties

Jeanne Merrill  Policy Director, California Climate and Agriculture Network

Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science

Martha Skelley, Paicines Ranch

Documents & Publications

DocumentAuthor/Source
Meeting Agenda 
Attendees 
Soil carbon sequestration strategies on rangelands - the state of the science Paige Stanley
Adaptive rotational grazing + soil carbon sequestration - research findings from comparative sites in California Paige Stanley
How do we measure soil carbon and co-benefits on rangelands?Chelsea Carey
Adaptive rotational grazing at PaicinesMartha Skelley

Research and Monitoring at Paicine

Sallie Calhoun
Soil sampling in the field: how do we measure soil carbon?  Paige Stanley and Chelsea Carey