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Cooperative Extension works to improve lives, communities, and the economy through a statewide network of knowledgeable faculty and staff. As a part of our land-grant university, Cooperative Extension plays a critical role in our mission to educate our communities and empower the next generation of experts to grow sustainable regional and global economies, and to develop new knowledge and technologies to benefit society.
Extension Faculty
In the face of prolonged drought and increasing weather variability, many decision-makers desire data, information, and consultation to better plan and manage their resources and operations. Cooperative Extension faculty and our county agents conduct research and provide educational programs on rangeland resource planning methods, vegetation monitoring and restoration techniques, and Indigenous or Traditional Ecology Knowledge.
Flavie Audoin
{Flah-vee Oh-dwan}Assistant Professor
Cooperative Extension Specialist in Plant-Herbivore Interactions and Targeted Grazing
Elise Gornish
Associate ProfessorCooperative Extension Specialist in Ecological Restoration
Jacob Hennig
Assistant ProfessorCooperative Extension Specialist, Public Lands Grazing
Michael Kotutwa Johnson
Assistant ProfessorCooperative Extension Specialist, Indigenous Resilience
George Ruyle
Professor and Specialist Emeritus, Range Management
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Natural Resource Users Law and Policy Center
The Natural Resource Users Law and Policy Center (NRULPC) is a creative partnership of the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law and Cooperative Extension that grew out of grassroots discussions. The Center’s aims are to collaborate with stakeholders, mentor student clinicians and fellows, provide scholarly legal and policy analysis, and address the underrepresented law and policy needs of the natural resource community of Arizona and the West.