Mitchel McClaran (PhD ’86, UC Berkeley) is Professor of Range Management with a focus on rangeland ecology and policy since 1986. He is a Fellow in the Bart Cardon Academy for Teaching Excellence, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Range Science and Education Council in 1999, and was named a Fellow in the Society for Range Management in 2014. Since 2020 he serves as the Director of the Arizona Experiment Station, in the Division of Agriculture, Life, and Veterinary Sciences and Cooperative Extension., and since 2004 he serves as Director for Research at the 21,500 ha UA Santa Rita Experimental Range. He has authored or co-authored 120 scientific publications. More details are available at http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran.