Dr. Haarmann is the ranch manager at the Banded Peak Ranch near Chromo, Colorado. He has over 25 years of experience in natural resources management and has focused most of his career managing large, high elevation, mountain properties in NM and CO. He has a PhD from the University of New Mexico in Biology with an emphasis in Ecosystem Ecology. Dr. Haarmann strives to manage natural resources by focusing on ecological resiliency, forest and watershed health, and wildlife habitat. He is particularly interested in collaborative landscape-scale partnerships that bring together public and private land managers. He is intrigued by the concept of applying science-based adaptive management techniques and teasing apart the nuances of successfully coupling science with operations on the ground.
Before coming to the Banded Peak Ranch, he worked as Ranch Manager on the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico. He also worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and surrounding property as a resource manager and researcher responsible for projects in natural resources management and planning, wildlife management, forest/fire management, and ecotoxicology. He has on ongoing interest in agroecology and sustainable food production and has owned small businesses focusing on local production of beef, pork, honey and pollination.
Together with his wife, he spent two years in Paraguay as a Peace Corps Volunteer working in beekeeping, agroforestry and environmental education programs. He has conducted agricultural extension projects in Paraguay, Bolivia and Mozambique. Dr. Haarmann serves on several boards and working groups including the Chama Peak Land Alliance, San Juan Headwaters Forest Health Partnership, Upper San Juan Watershed Management Project, San Juan Cutthroat Trout Working Group, Archuleta County Fair Livestock Board, and San Juan National Forest Resource Advisory Council.
