HELPING PEOPLE HELP THE LAND

ENHANCING GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS WHILE SUSTAINING PROFITABLE RANCHING

Activities/Topics Include:

Range Plant Identification
Field Tours
Team Building
Lecutures
Identification of Wildlife Habitat
Rangeland Monitoring
Careers in Conservation

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A New Season Begins: Welcoming the 2025 Sandhills Ranch Interns

Over the next three months, these interns will live and work on ranches throughout the Nebraska Sandhills.

Using Prescribed Fire to Control Eastern Red Cedar

After a last check of the weather and a call to the county dispatch office, the landowner strikes the match to begin the prescribed burn. This is one of the many prescribed burns the newly formed Garfield, Loup, Wheeler (GLW) Prescribed Burn Association (PBA) will try to complete this spring.

Sandhills Stories the Podcast

Sandhills Stories is a Podcast featuring ranchers who live and work across a nearly 20 thousand square mile area known as the sandhills...

Our Focus

The Sandhills Task Force aims to enhance the Sandhill wetland-grassland ecosystem in a way that sustains profitable private ranching, wildlife and vegetative diversity, and associated water supplies.

Ranching

Wildlife

Vegetation

Water

Outreach and Education

Outreach and education have always been essential components in achieving the mission of the Sandhills Task Force.

Activities help foster an understanding and appreciation of the ecology of the Sandhills and the ranching culture.

Sandhills Stories

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Sandhills Stewards

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Nebraska Youth Range Camp

Ranch Internships

Eastern Red Cedar

Drought Management

Conservation Assistance

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Prescribed Fire

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Using Prescribed Fire to Control Eastern Red Cedar

After a last check of the weather and a call to the county dispatch office, the landowner strikes the match to begin the prescribed burn. This is one of the many prescribed burns the newly formed Garfield, Loup, Wheeler (GLW) Prescribed Burn Association (PBA) will try to complete this spring.