Meet Our GLCI Specialists

Central National Technology Support Center

Kim grew up in Grand Island, NE and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and received a BS degree in Agronomy with a Range and Forage Option in 1985. She moved to Texas and attended Texas A&M University and received a Master of Agriculture degree in Range Science in 1989. Kim began conservation work with the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in Stephenville, TX May of 1988 as a Range Conservationist, and in 1991, moved to Perry, OK, as the Area Resource Conservationist. The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) becamethe Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in 1994 and she moved to Nebraska to serve as the State Range Management Specialist located in the North Platte, NE field service center. Kim took the position of the Northern Plains Grazing Lands Coordinator stationed in Lincoln, NE, in June of 2002. Currently she serves as the National GLCI Coordinator located in Fort Worth, TX. Her primary duties include providing leadership to the National GLCI, assisting the National Steering Committee with their activities, and also provide national grazing lands technical assistance.

Central National Technology Support Center

Central National Technology Support Center

Chuck was born in Lubbock, Texas and grew up in the big town of Notrees until age 7 before moving to Odessa where he graduated in 1983. After working in the oilfield and having an epiphany one evening, Chuck moved back to Lubbock and attended Texas Tech University. Chuck had several influential professors in the Range and Wildlife department at Tech, one who got him interested in prescribed burning, where he found his calling for the next few years. After graduation in 1992, Chuck began working as a Scientist for EG&G environmental services at the Nevada Test Site on the Yucca Mountain Project. Here, Chuck spent many hours traversing across the desert doing impact mitigation surveys, vegetation sampling, and various other biological research projects. Towards the middle of 1993, another influential professor from Tech approached Chuck with an opportunity for a Masters Degree program studying the Effects of Summer Burning on Texas High Plains Vegetation. Upon completion of his Masters Degree in 1997, Chuck became the ranch manager of a small 3000 acre cow-calf, stocker, and peanut operation in Girard, Texas. Towards the end of 1999, Chuck became a Rangeland Management Specialist in Waurika, Oklahoma. In 2001, a move to Lawton, Oklahoma saw Chuck as an Area Rangeland Management Specialist covering 6 counties in SW Oklahoma. In 2004, Chuck relocated to Woodward, Oklahoma as the Zone 1 Rangeland Resource Specialist. In 2005, Chuck was selected as one of the 3 GLCI Rangeland Management Specialists for the Central National Technology Support Center in Ft. Worth, Texas where he still resides today. Chuck has been a member of the Society for Range Management since 1990 and has been elected to several state section committees and boards. Chuck is a certified professional in rangeland management and certified grassland professional.

Eastern National Technology Support Center

Born and raised on a Central Indiana Crop/Livestock farm, Kevin graduated from South Putnam High School in 1975. In 1981, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Huntington College in Huntington, Indiana. Kevin majored in Biology Education with minors in Natural Resources and Business. He married college sweetheart in 1979, and was selected as an Aquatic Biologist for the city of Muncie, Indiana in 1981. Kevin began his career with the Soil Conservation Service as a Soil Conservation Technician in 1984 in Coldwater, MI, and became a Soil Conservationist in training from 1988 to 1990 at several southern Michigan locations. After being selected and serving for more than 10 years as a District Conservationist in 1990 in Coldwater, Michigan, he joined the Michigan NRCS as a State Grassland/Forage Specialist based at the East Lansing, MI State Office. In 2005, Kevin was chosen as one of two Regional Grazing Lands Specialist at the East National Technology Support Center, Greensboro, NC. His certifications include: the American Society of Agronomy (Certified Crop Advisor, 1997); the American Forage & Grasslands Council (Certified Grassland Professional, 2005). Kevin enjoys training NRCS staff, other agriculture advisory professionals and farmers the principles of good grazing management and how its many benefits help all resources including people.

Western National Techology Support Center

Gene is a GLCI Rangeland Management Specialist at the West National Technology Support Center in Portland Oregon. Raised on a dairy farm/beef cow-calf operation in western Oklahoma. Bachelor of Science degree in Range Management from Oklahoma State University. Professional experience with private grazing land owners in the Great Plains of Oklahoma, the Southeast Flatwoods of Florida, and the Great Basin of Nevada. Areas of background and interest: plant taxonomy, wetland delineations, prescribed burning, riparian management, animal husbandry, soil and range health, wildlife interactions, invasive and poisonous plants, landform geomorphology, monitoring, ecological function dynamics, land management conservation planning.