Society for Range Management

The Society for Range Management was organized in the summer of 1947 after a 1946 meeting of interested parties, with Joseph F. Pechanec as its first president. The Society was officially formed at its first meeting on January 29-31, 1948, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its mission was “to foster advancement in the science and art of grazing land management,” and it was established to provide an outlet and a venue for the dissemination and promotion of the principles of range management. By 2002, the Society had accumulated approximately four thousand members in forty-eight countries. To read an in-depth history of the Society, refer to the booklet, A History of the Society for Range Management, 1948-1985, contained in Series IV, Publications, of this collection.

From the guide to the Society for Range Management records, 1894-2000, 1940-1990, (University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.)

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