Range Riding Producer Toolkit

The primary pathway for integrating the collective experience and knowledge of partners in this project was through the producer toolkit for conflict reduction. Guided by livestock producers and other dedicated people working on a daily basis to reduce, manage and mitigate predation risk on working wild landscapes, the toolkit highlights decades of experience compiled into three documents and is a compilation of direct experience and knowledge of risk assessment, range riding, carcass management, and various types of electric fencing.

Developed through Technical Advisory Committees, these documents were co-produced amongst livestock producers, researchers, and non-profit and state agency representatives. Each document provides a comprehensive overview of range riding, carcass management, and fencing, and conveys context specific application through the risk assessment framework as well as the six principles of predation risk management mentioned above. Of note, the Range Riding Toolkit provides a concise definition of the practice, (see Figure 2), as well as best practices for implementation– two important contributions that have not been well described in other producer-facing documents prior.