About me
Fourth-generation Nevada rancher Agee Smith brings his forward-thinking approach not only to the family business but to collaborative stewardship efforts around the region. Agee is the managing partner of the Cottonwood Ranch located in the remote O’Neil Basin of northeastern Nevada. After serving in the Marine Corps in Vietnam for two years, he graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a degree in animal science. In 1995, the Cottonwood Ranch changed its grazing program using Holistic Resource Management as a way of thinking and managing, taking into consideration and working with the people, land, animals, and plants (above and below ground). The ranch is a participant in multiple holistically minded stewardship groups, and Agee avidly pursues continual learning in resource management, livestock handling, grazing, and history.
