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Broweleit Recognized for Range Management Contributions
Kansas Ag Connection - 10/25/2016

Bob Broweleit of Seneca, Neb., was awarded the 2016 Nebraska Section, Society for Range Management (SRM), Service Award. This award recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions in service to the range industry or range management profession. Jeff Nichols, president of the Nebraska Section of SRM and Karla Jenkins, past president, presented the award to Bob during the Section's annual banquet which was held in Gothenburg.

Broweleit has been a member of SRM since 2004. He has served on the Nebraska Section Council beginning in 2011 through 2016. Bob's tenure on the council and time as President was extended to two terms due to a prior council member being unable to fulfill their term after moving out of state. As president, Bob was responsible for planning two annual Section meetings, one in Ainsworth and one in North Platte. He has served as the Awards Committee chair for two years and has represented the NE Section at the National Advisory Council meetings at the International SRM meetings. Bob is currently serving as the chairman of the nominations committee, which recruits and facilitates elections to fill the successional council seats for the NE Section. Bob has stepped up to serve as interim News Letter Editor on various occasions in order to get the business of the Section distributed to the membership.

Broweleit graduated from Kearney High School in 1977, and received his Bachelor of Science from University of Nebraska -- Lincoln in 1982. He earned his Master of Science degree in Agronomy in 1997. Bob is a Nebraska Lead Program Fellow, class 29 (2009-2011).

Bob began his career as an Ag Research Technician for UNL and worked in that capacity until 1998. He then spent 6 years as an Ag Extension Agent in Kansas for K-State University. In 2004, Bob moved back to the Nebraska Sandhills where he was employed by the NRCS and served as the Coordinator for the Sandhills Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) in Mullen. In 2010, Bob took on his present role as a Soil Conservationist with NRCS at Thedford.

Broweleit has maintained and worked on his personal ranch, Bent Bar C Cattle Co. in his free time throughout his career. He has implemented wise range management improvements by installing additional livestock watering facilities and cross fencing to facilitate rotational grazing on his pastures.

Bob is an active member of the Thomas County Visitors Committee. He served as one of the initial members of the West Central Weed Management Area and was influential in getting this organization launched in order to bring awareness and action to combat noxious weeds to the area.

Bob and his wife Connie have two grown children. In his free time you will find Bob primarily working on the ranch, but you may catch him fishing on the banks of the Middle Loup River, which flows directly past his front yard in Seneca.


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