Gardner receives Sustained Lifetime Achievement Award
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BOISE, IDAHO – Greg Gardner received the Sustained Lifetime Achievement Award at the Society for Range Management’s 76th Annual Meeting in Boise, Idaho earlier this February. The Sustained Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by the Society for Range Management (SRM) to members for long-term contributions to the art and science of range management and to SRM.
Gardner, a beef cattle rancher from Polson, earned a degree in range management from Montana State University in 1979 and has been involved with range management ever since. He and his wife, Lynn, purchased their current 7,000-acre ranch in 1990 and have worked hard to further develop it into a model of good range management. They have built five miles of new fence, put in nine miles of stock water pipes, and installed a pumping system to lift stock water nine hundred vertical feet to obtain more uniform grazing. The extensive infrastructure updates allowed Gardner to implement a successful rest rotation system. He has also been aggressive in the control of invasive species. Gardner is a firm believer that one must be a good steward of the land in order to be a successful rancher.
Besides working hard on the ranch, he has found time to serve two years as president of the Western Montana Stockman’s Association. He has served ten years on the Lake County Conservation District Board, hosted range tours for the local the soil conservation district, and, for ten years, he headed up local youth education programs focused on land stewardship. The Polson Chamber of Commerce has twice named Gardner “Ag Person of the Year.”
For the tremendous contributions to the science and management of rangeland ecosystems he has made, it is with great honor the Society of Range Management recognized Greg Gardner with the Sustained Lifetime Achievement Award.
