Back to our GRASSroots: Healthy Grasslands Workshop

Big Bar Guest Ranch
Cariboo-Chilcotin
June 19-22, 2003

Each year, the GCC hosts an event in order to bring people together to discuss and learn about grasslands and grassland-related issues in BC. In 2003, in honour of the GCC's beginnings, we decided to return to the place where the GCC was conceived, namely, Cariboo country and the historical Big Bar Ranch.

In the Educational Summary Package, you will find a summary of the events that took place, including speaker summaries on topics of range management and grassland ecology; photos and maps of the Churn Creek Protected Area. Please browse through the summary and enjoy the Cariboo grasslands and all their splendour.

The educational summary package includes summaries of the following topics:

Building Blocks of a Healthy Grassland

• Selected Wildlife Topics: from Insects to Bighorn Sheep

• Vegetation and Microbiotic Communities

• Soils, Litter layers, Hydrology: Kent Watson and Bill Chapman

• The Effects of Defoliation: Summary by Wendy Gardner

Saturday Working Grasslands Tour

• Badgers in the Cariboo

• Biosolids research

• Photopoint Monitoring By Jim White

A sincere thank you to the following sponsors for making the Healthy Grasslands Workshop possible with their generosity: