Frank E. "Fee" Busby Professor, Wildland Resources, College of Natural Resources Utah State University Logan, UT 84322-5200 Ph: 435-797-2319 E-mail: [email protected] Education: Bachelor of Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1968, Agricultural Education. Master of Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1970, Range and Wildlife Science. Thesis: Distribution and spread of woody phreatophytes on the Brazos River Flood Plain. Doctor of Philosophy, Utah State University, Logan, 1977, Range Watershed Science. Dissertation: Effects of livestock grazing on infiltration and erosion rates measured on chained and unchained pinyon-juniper sites in southeastern Utah. Employment: Utah State University, Logan Utah. 1. Professor in Department of Wildland Resources. July, 2005 to present. 2. Dean of the College of Natural Resources. July, 1998 to June, 2005. Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Morrilton, Arkansas. 1. Interagency Personal Agreement. March 1997 to June, 1998. Assigned full time from Winrock as Deputy Chief for Science and Technology for the Natural Resource Conservation Service (USDA). 2. Contract Assignment. February 1995 to March 1997. Assigned full time from Winrock as special assistant to the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA) to work on grazing land conservation issues and in training programs. 3. Director of U. S. Programs, August, 1988 to February, 1995. University of Wyoming, Laramie 1. Professor of Range Management. July, 1987 to July, 1988. 2. Director of the Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service. June 1984 to July, 1987. 3. Professor and Head of the Department of Range Management. June, 1979 to May, 1984. Utah State University, Logan Extension Range Management Specialist and Assistant-Associate Professor (teaching and research), September, 1972 to May, 1979. USDA, Soil Conservation Service, Colorado City and Post, Texas Soil and Range Conservationist, Student Trainee, Summers 1967-1970.

Professional Organizations: Society for Range Management Utah Section: Newsletter Editor (1973-1977), Youth Committee Chair and Director of Utah Range Youth Camp (1973-1978), Northern Chapter President (1974), Council (1974-1977), Rangeman of the Year (1981), Utah Natural Resources Field School (2005-present) Wyoming Section: Youth Committee and Director of Wyoming Range Youth Camp (19791981), Section President-Elect (1981), President (1982), Rangeman of the Year(1984) Society: Helped organize International College Student Conclave (1969-1970), Student Affairs Committee (1970-1972), Public Affairs Committee (1974-1977, Chair in 1977), Annual Meeting Program Chair (1979, Casper, Wyoming), Board of Directors, (1980-1983), Second Vice President (1984), First Vice President (1985), and President (1986), Fellow Award, 1987, Planning Committee (1987-1990), Summer Meeting Planning Chair (1993) Professional Activities (Selected): As Extension Range Management Specialist, helped organize and served as executive director of the Utah Rangeland Development Committee (1973 to 1977). This committee was set up to coordinate activities and information sharing among 17 industry, state, and federal organizations involved in rangeland management in Utah. The committee was organized under the Utah State Department of Agriculture. This group was instrumental in organizing the first and second Western Governors' Conferences on Range Management in 1975 and 1976, and in working with the Utah Legislature to establish the Utah Rangeland Development Revolving Loan Fund. Served as a member of the Old West Region Grazing Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Task Force (1979-1981). This task force was established by the governors or Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska to monitor the grazing EISs prepared by the Bureau of Land Management. The group provided advice to the governors for their use in commenting on the EIS process and on individual statements. Helped organize (and served as executive director) Wyoming Rangeland Use and Management Coordinating Committee. This committee was established to provide coordination and encourage cooperation among 19 private and public groups in Wyoming that use, manage, or own rangelands in the state. The major accomplishment of this committee was the establishment of the Wyoming Range Stewardship Program. This program helped ranchers, agency personnel, and other interested individuals and organizations develop coordinated resource use and management plans. In 1987 advised the College of Agriculture, University of Nairobi (Kenya) on establishment of cash crop, range, and livestock research and education center at Kibwezi, including developing strategy to integrate center into undergraduate curriculum of the college. Also reviewed the rangeland research program at the Koboko Range Research Station and research being conducted by Colorado State University in the Turkana region of northern Kenya.

In 1987, served as a member of the National Research Council Panel on Range Management. The purpose of this panel was to identify research needs- relative to rangeland use and management. In 1989, I was named chair of the NRC Committee on Rangeland Classification. I lead this committee until its report on Rangeland Health -- New Methods to Classify. Inventory[y. and Monitor Rangelands was released in January, 1994. In March, 1991, I advised the Government of Kuwait on arid lands research, including strategies to extend results of revegetation research to the Kuwait National Park and to grazing lands throughout the country. Serve as a member of the Ouachita National Forest Ecosystems Management Advisory Committee. The major responsibilities of this committee has been to advise the Forest Supervisor on issues related to the New Perspectives program, developing guidelines for "future forest condition," and advising on implementing the ecosystem management program of the Forest Service. Appointed by Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Agricultural Science and Technology Review Board in 1992. This board was created in the 1990 Farm Bill and charged with advising Congress and the Secretary of Agriculture on emerging agricultural and environmental issues and their potential impact on U. S. agriculture and rural life. Invited speaker (U. S. Dust Bowl Experience and Ecosystem Management in the Great Basin, USA) and consultant on issues of land degradation at Integrated Ecosystem Management Workshop, November 1-2, 1995, Beijing China. Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteer with UNDP in Uzbekistan (organized by Winrock International). September-October, 2005. Worked with staff of UNDP and a number of Government of Uzbekistan agencies to develop rangeland management program proposal for two communities in western Uzbekistan (Kyzyl Rovat and Kazhakadarya). The information provided was used by UNDP in a proposal to the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). Selected Publications: Woody phreatophyte infestation of the Middle Fork of the Brazos River flood plain. Journal of Range Management 24:285-287. 1971 (with J. L. Schuster). Range Research --1973. Utah State University Extension, Logan. Unnumb. Publ. 34p. 1973 (Editor). Loss of particulate organic materials from semiarid watersheds as a result of extreme hydrologic events. Water Resources Research 9:1443-1449. 1973 (with G. F. Gifford). Intensive infiltrometer studies on a plowed big sagebrush site. Journal of Hydrology 21:81-90. 1974 (with G. F. Gifford).

Utah's Rangeland Development Program--research and theory to application. Utah Science 35:811. 1975. Pinyon Juniper Ecosystem. Utah Agricultural Experiment Station symposium proceedings. 196p. 1975 (editor with G. F. Gifford). Hydrologic impact of burning and grazing on a chained pinyon-juniper site in southeastern Utah. Utah Water Resources Research Laboratory, PRJNR012-1. 22p. 1076 (with G. F. Gifford and J. C. Buckhouse). Role of prescribed burning in western range and woodland ecosystems. Utah Agricultural Experiment Station symposium proceedings. 90p. 1976 (editor with Ed Storey). Agricultural education and the Cooperative Extension Service cooperate to provide in service range science preparation. The Journal of American Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture 19:2224 (with Gil Long). A project that made a second spring for Park Valley. Rangeman's Journal 5:8 6-88 (with Mike Ralphs). Prescribed burning: vegetation change, forage production, costs and returns of six demonstration burns in Utah. Journal of Range Management 32:267-270 (with Mike Ralphs). Riparian and stream ecosystems, livestock grazing, and multiple use management. In: Proceedings of the Forum--Grazing and Riparian/Stream Ecosystems. p 6-12. Trout Unlimited. Denver, Colorado. 1979. Effects of livestock grazing an infiltration and erosion rates measured on chained and unchained pinyonjuniper sites in southeastern Utah. Journal of Range Management 34:400-405. 1979 (with G. F. Gifford) Prescribed burning—effective control of sagebrush in Wyoming. Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin RJ-165. 12p. 1981 (with Mike Smith). Rangeland conservation needs, technology, and policy alternatives. In: Soil and Water Resources, Research Priorities for the Nation. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin. 1981 (with Don Hedrick, chair, Joe Schuster, Carlton Herbel, Gordon Kearl, Ken Renard, Tom Shiflet, Jim Teer, and Dick Whetsell). Rangeland habitat. In: Impact of Emerging Agricultural Trends of Fish and Wildlife Habitat. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. 1981. (with Jim Teer, chair, Ernest Ables, Don Hedrick, Fred Stormer, and Jack Ward Thomas). Meeting the needs of the rancher. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Ranchers Roundup. Texas Agricultural Extension Service Unnumb. Publ. 1983.

Range management--attempts to build a multidisciplinary field. In: Resources and People. p 18721 1. American Association for Advancement of Science Symposium Series. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 1986. Rangeland monitoring-performance testing of rangeland resources and management. In: Proceedings Rangeland Monitoring Workshop. p 10-13. USDI, Bureau of Land Management. Denver Service Center, Denver, Colorado. 1988. Achieving resource management goals through improved pasture and range vegetative cover. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 43:62-63. 1988. Sustainable Agriculture-who will lead? Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 45:8991. 1990. Rangeland health-new ways to classify, inventory, and monitor rangelands. Committee on Rangeland Classification, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. 1994 (chair, with J. C. Buckhouse, D. C. Clanton, G. C. Coggins, G. E. Evans, K. L. Gadzia, C. M. Jarecki, L. A. Joyce, D. Loper, D. L. Merkel, G. B. Ruyle, J. W. Thomas, J. H. Wald, and S. E. Williams). Rangeland health-new methods to classify, inventory, and monitor rangelands. Renewable Resources Journal 12:13-19. 1994 (with C. Cox). Sustainable use and management of the world's rangelands. 1991. In: 2nd International Congress of Range Management in the Persian Gulf. Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. Rangeland health -- new policies and methods to classify, inventory, and monitor rangelands. In: Lee, Linda (ed.). National Resources Inventory Symposium. Washington, D.C. Perspectives on sustainability--assessing rangeland condition or health. In: Lacey, John (ed.). Sustainable Livestock Symposium. Billings, Montana, pages 3-5. 1995. Rural development. In: The New Uses Council 1995 Farm Bill Briefing Book. Washington, D.C. Part 1, pages 1922. 1995. Establishing standards for rangeland health. Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy. 11:27-29. 1996. (with C. Cox). International experience: the 1930s dust bowl of the Great Plains, USA. In: Squires, V (ed). Integrated ecosystem management: putting it into China’s natural resource management agenda. Proceeding of the International Workshop held in Beijing, pages 34-45. 2004. Ecosystem management in the Great Basin of the United States. In: Squires, V (ed). Integrated ecosystem management: putting it into China’s natural resource management agenda. Proceeding of the International Workshop held in Beijing, pages 84-95. 2004.