SERVICES
Rangeland Management
Tannas Conservation Services has extensive experience creating rangeland management plans for livestock and wildlife. We are experienced in completing plant community mapping, wetland mapping, range health assessments, detailed baseline transects, and comprehensive management plans for all forms of large grazing/browsing animals, including livestock and wildlife species.
We have provided dozens of long-term management plans for public lands management agencies, the Department of Defence, private firms, and National Park systems. Our team has the experience to address land management issues in virtually any ecosystem.
Rangeland Ecology & Management Services
Rangeland Ecology & Management Services:
At Tannas Conservation Services, we provide assessments on:
- Comprehensive Range Inventories: Range and riparian health assessments, detailed vegetation transects, Robel pole assessments, browse assessments, invasive species management, soil assessments, and production clips.
- Land Classification and Mapping: Plant community classification, high-quality map production, wetland assessments, land use studies, and management planning maps.
- Range Management Planning: Comprehensive analysis and presentation of data, multivariate and univariate statistical analysis, calculating sustainable carrying capacities, and creation of grazing management plans.
- Creating Complex Plans for Multiple Stakeholders: Integration of recreation, multiple species, rare species, and habitat protection into management plans.
- Baseline Documentation Reports: Vegetation inventories and full baseline documentation of lands for the development of conservation easements.
Specialized Skills and Abilities
Expert Plant Taxonomists: Authors of Common Plants of the Western Rangelands, including three award-winning rangeland agrologists and taxonomists.
Real-World Management Experience: Personnel have managed ranches and rangelands both privately and professionally for decades.
Experience
View ProjectsAt Tannas Conservation Services, rangeland management is in our blood, shaped by generations of ranching experience across Alberta. This deep, lived connection to the land informs every project we undertake, from the field to the final report.
- Over 30 years of experience completing rangeland inventories across western Canada.
- Completed over 15 management plans, including field work and reporting, and completed numerous additional field programs.
- Management plans and studies were completed for elk, plains bison, woodland bison, and cattle. Created complex management plans involving the management of multiple species at the same time.
- Created comprehensive management plans to protect rare species, as well as protect and enhance the habitat of rare species.
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Rangeland Health Expert Today
Our team brings decades of experience in rangeland health, plant taxonomy, and sustainable land management. With locations in Cranbrook, Kimberley, Cremona, Edmonton, Pincher Creek, and Calgary, we’re well-positioned to support projects across Western Canada. Get in touch to discuss your land management goals and how we can help.
