Jim Howell

Biographical Information
"Jim Howell was raised both in California and Colorado, where his family has ranched since the late 1800s. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Animal Science from Cal Poly Pomona, completing his final year as a foreign exchange student at Lincoln University in New Zealand in 1991. Right out of college, Jim cowboyed on a large diversified ranching operation in western Colorado, then managed a 1000-cow pasture-based dairy in east Texas. From 1994-96, he co-managed (with wife Daniela) the 34,000 acre High Lonesome Ranch (a former learning site of Holistic Management International) in the Chihuahua Desert of southwestern New Mexico.

"After traveling extensively in Africa in 1996, Jim and Daniela settled on Jim’s family’s ranch in high altitude southwestern Colorado, near Cimarron. Their primary enterprises include custom cattle grazing, big game guiding and outfitting, small scale sustainable forestry, and educational seminars, both on the family ranch and adjacent leased ranches. Jim and Daniela also lead educational trips to ecologically and economically vibrant, creatively managed ranches in Argentina, Australia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and New Zealand.

"Jim helps bring holistic management decision making and planning to ranching clients across the American West. He is a frequent speaker at grazing, land, water, and holistic management conferences. His growing expertise is in the analysis of the economic and ecological viability of large, forage-based livestock production models and he now leads the Savory Institute’s land management arm, Grasslands, LLC.

"He has published one book, For the Love of Land—Global Case Studies of Grazing in Nature’s Image."

His wife is Daniela Ibarra-Howell.