Matt Barnes
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- | The Tao of Cow – Working with nature to make it easier to get where we're going
- A West That Works Home
- Boudreaux's Doggie Bloggie
- Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming
- Columns - Along the Frontier
- Desert Rats: A Field Guide
- Gunnison Basin and Crested Butte Conservation News from HCCA
- Home on the Range with Bunchgrass Beef
- La Pastora de Jaca
- NewWest.Net All Headlines
- Polymath Poseur
- Ranching in South Dakota
- Renewable Communities Alliance
- Rocky Mountain Authors at the Tattered Cover
- ryan parks photography
- schnitzerPHOTO
- Shining Horizons
- Society for Range Management Blog
- Stephen Bodio's Querencia
- The Bovine Blog
- Thoughts for a Passing Afternoon
- Twisted Wire
- Walking the Barrow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Environment |
| Occupation | Rangeland and wildlife conservationist |
| Location | Dolores, Colorado, United States |
| Introduction | Matt Barnes provides ranch and rangeland stewardship for whole-systems resilience through his company, Shining Horizons Land Management, LLC. He is also a Research Associate with the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, and was previously Field and Research Coordinator at People and Carnivores. He managed the Howell Ranch in western Colorado from 2010 - 2012. He is a Certified Professional in Rangeland Management, past President of the Colorado Section of the Society for Range Management, and serves on the editorial board of Rangelands, where he recently edited a special issue on Strategic Grazing Management for Complex Creative Systems. He is a writer, photographer, and artist, exploring the American West and rangelands of the world by foot, horse, boat, pickup truck, and motorcycle. |
| Interests | Exploring, reading, writing, photography, art, living on the land, integral theory and practice, meditation, travel, kayaking, canoeing, motorcycle riding, home brewing, western dancing |
| Favorite Movies | Living in the Future's Past, Into the Wild, Legends of the Fall, Lonesome Dove, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The New Frontier, Sukhavati, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada |
| Favorite Music | Americana music, flamenco, folk music, Mongolian long-tone singing, western music, world music |
| Favorite Books | A Sand County Almanac, Beyond the Rangeland Conflict, Desert Solitaire, For the Love of Land, Home Land, Masked Gods, Revolution on the Range, The Border Trilogy, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, The Power of Now, Where the Bluebird Sings the the Lemonade Springs, Wolf Totem, The Ancient Child, Ceremony |