2025 Annual Meeting
October 7th - 9th, 2025
Alpine, Texas
Business Meeting Agenda
The Future of Grazing and Agriculture:
Integrating Tradition with Innovation for Management
Abstracts are now being accepted for Oral and poster presentations at the Texas Section Society for Range Management Annual Meeting that will be held October 7th – 9th in Alpine. The theme for this year’s meeting is “The Future of Grazing and Agriculture”. All abstracts should be ≤ 300 words and follow the format and style of Rangeland Ecology and Management (see example below). Submission of abstracts should follow format guidelines because this is a component of the student’s overall final score. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be submitted to Dean Wiemers, dwwiemers@swtxc.edu. (note new email address). Please specify in email the student classification and presentation type. Deadline for submission of all abstracts is September 14th, 2025. All presenters will be notified of acceptance by September 21st.
1. Oral presentations
Graduate students with completed research and young professionals who recently completed a graduate program are encouraged to submit abstracts related to rangeland and wildlife ecology and management. Each abstract must include completed results to be considered for the oral presentations. A maximum of 8 abstracts will be selected for oral presentations based on research quality and campus representation. Abstracts that were not accepted for the oral presentations will be able to present their results in the poster
session or in the Lessons from the Field presentations. Awards will be given to the top 3 outstanding oral presentations. The Land Steward Award will also be given to the oral presentation that provides valuable information to natural resources stewardship and will be selected by landowners and ranch managers.
2. Poster Presentations
Undergraduate, graduate, and TSSRM members are encouraged to submit abstracts related to rangeland and wildlife ecology and management, as well as, other relevant information in rangeland ecology or management. Students are encouraged to submit abstracts with preliminary results. Posters should not exceed 48” in length and 36” in height. Awards will be given to the top 3 outstanding undergraduate and graduate poster presentations.
Don Pendleton Memorial Award
East Foundation–Texas Section of the Society for Range
Management Three Minute Thesis Contest 2025
The East Foundation-Texas Section of the Society for Range Management Three Minute Thesis competition will take place at the Texas Section Society for Range Management annual meeting in Alpine, Texas October 8-9, 2025. Three Minute Thesis (3MT) https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/ is a research communication competition developed by the University of Queensland in Australia. It challenges graduate students to make a compelling presentation on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes. The competition helps students develop academic, presentation and research communication skills and the capacity to explain their research to a non-academic audience.
The mission of the East Foundation is to support wildlife conservation and the other public benefits of ranching and private land stewardship. We engage with university programs to strengthen the pipeline of talented scientists and well-informed decision makers. We conduct programs such as 3MT® because we need more management-minded scientists and more science-minded managers. Through this, we are developing future leaders that will be well-grounded in applied science, able to communicate to decision-makers.
Why Compete?
improve your ability to communicate science to people who are not scientists
hone your “elevator speech”
promote your research to decision makers
cash awards
because it is the right thing to do
Contact Information and dateline
The title of the presentation, name of the presenter, institution, and 1 PowerPoint slide (Widescreen 16:9 format), should be emailed to Dr. Benjamin Turner (benjamin.turner@tamuk.edu) by October 1, 2025.
For general questions or information concerning the contest, please contact Dr. Turner at the above email address or via phone at (361) 593-2464.
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Host Hotel Information
Hotel Parker, Quarter Circle Seven Resort
2800 US-90, Alpine, TX 79830
(432) 837-1100
Website
Reservation instructions: Call the hotel directly for blocked rooms, use "TSSRM" as the group name.
Hollland Hotel
209 W Holland Ave, Alpine, TX 79830
(432) 837-2800
Website
Reservation instructions: On the website, click on "book a room", enter dates (oct 7 to 10), then enter "SRMC' into the promo code box. You will have until 8/22/2025 to book or we will remove block.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
2004 US-90, Alpine, TX 79830
(432) 837-9597
Website
Reservation instructions: Call or book online, use "TXS" as the group name. The last day they will have to book a room will be on September 7th.
Quality Inn
2401 US-90, Alpine, TX 79830
(432) 356-1703
Website
Reservation instructions: Call or book online, use "TSSRM" as the group name.