As the primary tool for land transformation, the institute seeks to engage and build knowledge, skills and confidence in u.s. Farmers and ranchers through institute-hosted educational experiences. These educational experiences provide pathways for transferring institute research outcomes and operational experiences. The institute conducts practical, grazing land-focused agriculture research to observe, measure, study, and assess the ecosystem service responses to land management. This landscape-scale research occurs on institute ranches as well as other u.s. Grazing properties. This research is performed, in part, in conjunction with both land grant universities and NON-land grant colleges of agriculture. The institute's ranches are regeneratively managed and consist of 13,500 acres of introduced pasture and native grazing lands in southern OK, which is the subject of extensive ecological measurement and assessment as living laboratories. The ranches further serve as examples for management and production practices and outcomes.