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Steffens, Tim

Tim Steffens

Assistant Professor and Extension Rangeland Resource Management Specialist
Office:
Department of Agriculture Sciences, West Texas A&M University
Email:
tsteffens@mail.wtamu.edu
Phone:
(806) 651-2781
Resume/CV
Undergraduate Education
B.S. Agricultural Education, Tartleton State University
Graduate Education
M.S. Animal Nutrition, Texas Tech University
Ph.D. Rangeland Ecology and Management, Colorado State University

Professional Summary

Dr. Steffens has a joint appointment with the Agriculture Sciences Department at West Texas A&M and with Texas Agrilife Extension in the field of rangeland resource management. He has been a rangeland management specialist with Colorado Cooperative Extension. He has also managed a 1300 cow ranch for the Mescalero Apaches in southern New Mexico. His experience also includes working directly with producers on rangeland issues including grazing management, prescribed fire, livestock nutrition and T&E species as a Rangeland Management Specialist with the USDA-NRCS in southeastern Colorado. He also worked as the extension project manager for the nationally recognized Seco Creek Water Quality Demonstration Project. His current research and extension interests include managing ecological succession using targeted grazing management, developing integrated livestock-rangeland-cropping systems to improve soil quality and improve conservation as well as brush and weed management

Current News

  • Department of Rangeland, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management celebrates first annual Excellence Awards ceremony and dinner. April 25, 2022
  • Legacy degree students receive Senior Merit Award April 22, 2021
  • Innovative agricultural solutions necessary to advance human health, sustain natural resources March 16, 2021
  • Texas ‘wild pig wars’ leader assumes role in national task force March 15, 2021
  • Pasture-cropping practice could improve degraded Texas grassland soils March 15, 2021

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