Louis Martin

Louis Martin is the founder and CEO of Round River Resource Management, LLC, a land and livestock management company dedicated to managing ranch lands and livestock for economic and ecological sustainability. Louis has been involved in the ranching industry for over forty years and has been a student of Holistic Management since 1985. As a graduate of Texas A&M University, Louis served as the manager of the TAMU Beef Center for 18 years, before moving to eastern Utah to manage a large public lands ranch near Vernal. In 2003, Louis moved to Colorado, and in 2008, founded Round River after being selected to lease and manage the Brett Gray Ranch by the Colorado State Land Board and The Nature Conservancy. Today, Round River manages over 50,000 acres of ranch lands, using regenerative, time­controlled grazing practices and livestock as tools to restore ranch lands and provide profitability to land and livestock owners while offering a pathway into ranching for aspiring agriculturists through an internship/apprenticeship/mentoring program. Louis also serves on the CSU Board of Governors and he and his wife Cathy live on the Brett Gray Ranch near Rush, Colo.