Abstract
The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension created the Nevada Range Management School (NRMS) in 2005 to improve the sustainability of grazed rangelands. In Nevada, USA, over 670 individuals have attended two or more of NRMS modules. In 2011, the United States Forest Service International Program (USFS-IP) invited the NRMS cadre to help develop a similar curriculum for the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. Versions of this curriculum were also taught in 2014 to international participants in the USFS-IP International Rangeland Seminar and Agricultural Extension staff in the Republic of Georgia. The curriculum’s foundation modules address plant growth, development, physiology and grazing, and the timing and duration of grazing, and routinely received high marks for clarifying important concepts and providing knowledge the recipients could use to improve grazing management. International participants also identified numerous approaches to apply this knowledge in their own countries. Observation and feedback from program participants in Morocco and the Republic of Georgia indicate that application of knowledge gains is difficult when there is little or no control of when livestock access the grazing lands.
