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Land
Resource Consulting
Which side of the fence do YOU want to be on?
This part of Running Enterprise is diverse, complex, and very involved. For any of you that have had a chance at a management position, you know exactly what I am talking about. The thing about natural resources is that managers are usually blessed with all of the business decisions plus blessed with making management decisions for livestock, wildlife, and what is truly beneficial for the land you are managing. Anybody that has taken this type of management seriously (such as a land resource manager) knows that money, the land, and the resources on that land usually never match up to a perfect fit, like a jigsaw puzzle would. Although managing money, personnel, animals, land, yourself, and Mother Nature seems like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, it isn't.
Like most good consultants, Running Enterprise has its own theoretical framework that aids in designing management plans. Exclusive to Jason himself, it is called "Thinking Outside of the Bubble." You may say why not just think outside of the box? Well, first, it is not original to Running Enterprise, and second, it does not fit agriculture any more. Let me explain: A box has equal sides, 90 degree corners, and stacks very easily. If you are in the box, you are very secluded and nothing every changes for you. If you think outside the box, you are still around things that make you comfortable, you have those 90 degree corners, and that is it. You are trying new things, experimenting, and incorporating these things into your life (which is very good), but you are still limited.
“Thinking Outside of the Bubble” is more fitting for those of us in agriculture. Think of water bubbles; they are different sizes, shapes, vary in number, can go around corners, and can change speed without explanation. This sounds to me more like the modern agriculture we are now in. Therefore, this is the paradigm in which Running Enterprise focus' on while consulting with clients.
Everything we do out on the land has consequences (good and bad), just as it would if you were to pop a water bubble. By using this philosophy, we are able to focus on small things that really affect the big things, and we are also able to focus on the big things that impact the small things.
What Will a Consultant do for You?
It doesn't matter whether you are a landowner, rancher, farmer, manager, or any other type of business person, a consultant can be used as a valuable tool or resource. A consultant provides input, information, and views as an outsider looking inward on your business without bias to help make your business better and more efficient. A land resource consultant can combine science, higher education, history, and logic out on the land. It is my hope through Running Enterprise that I can provide a service that will enhance your operation, bring things to light, and capitalize on opportunities. Finding the good in the bad and finding the bad in the good is never a one-step process, but it is a process that needs to occur to fit the goals and objectives of a successful business.
Consulting with Running Enterprise
Identify: A management team, resources, and goal and objectives.
Topics to focus on for a management plan
- Family
- Capital
- Property
- Food
- Management
- Markets
- Legalities
- Management Plan
- Interest groups
- Healthcare
- Water
- Plants
- Maps
- Soil
- Carbon Sequestration
- Weeds and Pests
- Fences
- Maps
- Shelter
- Many, many more, depending on your individual situation.
This is just a template that we use to start developing management plans. As you can tell, they can get very involved, but they are only as involved as you make them.
In conclusion, the goal of consulting with Running Enterprise is to better your lifestyle, show you opportunities that you may not have known about or done before, and to serve as a link between you, scientific research, history, and logic. Finally, we are the one that applies all of this out on the land with you, guiding you, and applying all of these principles together in an effort to better your operation, your lifestyle, and the land.
Jason Walker is a Technical Service Provider with the NRCS. He can consult in collaboration with the NRCS, the NWTF, or alone. Contact us for pricing
or more information.
Photo taken as part of a photo-monitoring effort to address range management issues on landowner's property.
Every good land steward needs utilization cages to monitor grazing practices.
These were built by
Running Enterprise for a landowner.
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The goal of this dam diversion was to restore 1.5 miles of creek,targeting wildlife and cottonwood regrowth. We assisted with skidsteer work on this project. |
Tree-planting experiment for the NWTF done near a coalbed methane field near Decker, MT.
Working with the NRCS, Wyoming Game & Fish, NWTF, and a private landowner planning wildlife habitat for a ranch.
Dead cottonwood debris placed to encourage shrub growth - cooperative experiment with the NRSC and the NWTF.
Windbreak built with dead cottonwood debris.
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03/31/2009
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