Facilitators

Doug Jobes

Regenerative Ranching Advisor

Doug Jobes serves as a regenerative ranching advisor at Noble Research Institute. Prior to his role at Noble, Jobes served in the U.S. Army 75th Ranger Regiment before transitioning to agriculture, where he gained experience in row crop production in the Southeast and beef cattle operations in Georgia and Oklahoma. His professional career includes serving as a private lands consulting biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife, assistant director for Texas Native Seeds and director of project maintenance and recreation for the Lavaca Navidad River Authority. Doug earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife management from the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forest Resources and a master’s degree in natural resource ecology and management from Oklahoma State University. He is passionate about pairing practical working knowledge with larger ecological concepts to help ranchers achieve regenerative stewardship. 

At Noble, Doug focuses on ecosystem processes and rangeland and wildlife management.