SnapLands’ founder, Ryan White, M.S., is a rangeland specialist. His vision for working landscapes comes from over 20 years of professional work in ranching, land management, grassland restoration, education, and ecological accounting projects.  His career working with ranches, farms, NGOs, and government agencies has been guided by seeking and creating real financial, ecological, and social impact. He enjoys training, working with, and learning from diverse people and operations. He is a trained carbon accountant holding a M.S. in Greenhouse Gas Management and Accounting from Colorado State University. He is also a certified Master Gardener, Master Naturalist, Smithsonian Scientific Illustrator, Land EKG-PRO Specialist, Accredited Field Professional, Savory Institute EOV Hub Verifier, and Native Plant Master Naturalist.  He loves bringing more value to regenerative results and expediting services towards each client’s operational objectives. Today, SnapLands is one of the most applied rangeland consulting and monitoring services in the country today.

Ryan raises four children with his wife Bethany in northern Colorado. In his spare time he enjoys visiting clients, quality time with family, and painting plein air art of the farms, ranches, wildlife, and friends.

Brandon Dalton, M. S., is Director of Special Projects.  Brandon is intimately familiar with the realties of staffing, creating, managing, and implementing triple-bottom-line land management strategies.  He brings a hands-on international expertise in holistic management and rangeland management to every project.  His hard knocks from leading teams and agricultural businesses in New Zealand and the United States allows his practical insights to assist a diversity of cultures, rangelands, farmlands, and climates.  Brandon has created his own custom-grazing business and has worked for 13-years generating results and returns in restorative ranching and farming operations.  This includes overseeing large-scale government grazing permits, private family operations, and complex land portfolios on dry-lands and irrigated pastures with various livestock classes.  He has collectively managed hundreds of thousands of livestock and acres, including one of NZ’s largest stations on the South Island, Lee’s Valley.  He also heads a ranching internship program and various irrigation properties for Grasslands LLC.

His cowboy wife, Brandi, two sons, and daughter, regularly engage in ranch work on the Colorado’s Western Slope.  In his spare time, Brandon enjoys his additional passion in elk hunting, trout fishing, and competitive Jiu Jitsu.

Richie Hum, M.S., is Director of Product Development, and has an extensive expertise in conservation ecology and data management. Richie bring high-level details and accuracy to our clients’ ecological monitoring, forage and plant identification, remote sensing visualization, field ground truthing, statistical analysis, and field training. His practical field and technical savvy shares how clients natural resources and biodiversity are changing due to bio/geo/chemial influences on some of the worlds most complex land operations. He is passionate about working with others to help discern the health of their ecosystem and the value services it is providing to diverse land operations.

Born and raised in Colorado, Richie is intimately connected to the mountains and plains of the Colorado Plateau. He obtained his master’s degree from Appalachian State University where he developed a fondness for the flora of the Southern Appalachians. As an avid rock climber with a penchant for large boulders, he is often found hiding within the talus fields of the Colorado alpine.

Natalie Berkman, Land Management & Restoration Lead is based in western Montana and is seasoned livestock grazier and land manager. Natalie brings over a decade of farm and ranch experience across thousands of acres to our work in ecosystem health, project management, community collaboration, and program implementation.

She is a graduate of Quivira’s New Agrarian and Ranch Management Fellowship programs and maintains an active commitment to ongoing education through yearly stockmanship, ranch economics, and soil health workshops and conferences. She has served dozens of ranchers and hundreds of thousands of acres of working lands as SnapLands Rangeland Data & Stewardship Specialist.  Currently Natalie continues to expand her expertise in regenerative ranching, and she especially values the time sharing meals and connecting with ranchers across the region.

Skyler Smith, M. S., is Director of Ecological Restoration and Quality Assurance.  He graduated from Colorado State University as magna cum laude of his class with a focus in land restoration. He serves as SnapLands’ Rangeland Field Technician and Data Quality Manager. As a life long Coloradan, he is passionate about conservation and land restoration of all scales. He brings both a depth and breath of scientific knowledge about the plant communities and land restoration to rangelands.

Skyler graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and a minor in Restoration Ecology. He brings exceptional professionalism to his field work. In his down time, he is frequently backpacking in the Rocky Mountains and finding good reason to travel, go birding, and explore the outdoors.