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Results for keyword: Grazing

  • Believe it or not: Ranching has something to teach us

    Once denounced by many environmentalists, ranching is finally getting some respect, and Courtney White feels that it’s about time.

    by Courtney White, Aug 06, 2008

  • Yellowstone grazing allotments

    Buyouts and tradeoffs

    by Francisco Tharp, Mar 21, 2008

  • The granddaddy of all collaboration groups

    In his beautiful, compact book Working Wilderness, Nathan Sayres tells the story of the Malpai Borderlands Group, “the most hailed example of collaborative place-based resource management in the West.”

    by Paul Larmer, Apr 30, 2007

  • Rainbow Gathering lacks one color — green

    The writer gives an eye-witness account of how her sheep-grazing allotment became home to thousands of Rainbow folks

    by Sharon Salisbury O'Toole, Jul 03, 2006

  • Trouble on the Valles Caldera

    The Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico was supposed to be a grand experiment in collaborative management, but the current board’s push to expand grazing and curtail public input has led to clashes with local environmentalists

    by Laura Paskus, Nov 28, 2005

  • Strange bedfellows make a grazing deal in Idaho

    Anti-grazing activist Jon Marvel makes a deal with ranching magnate J.R. Simplot, allowing cattle to continue to graze on federal land in Idaho

    by Ray Ring, Oct 03, 2005

  • Science: The chink in Quivira's armor

    The Quivira Coalition has a lot of anecdotal evidence supporting its claim that its grazing methods work, but hard, independent science on the topic is much harder to find

    by Tony Davis, Sep 05, 2005

  • The 'New Ranch' poster child hangs on by a thread

    Rancher Jim Williams believes the Quivira Coalition helped change his life, but restoring his arid rangeland has proved difficult, and between drought and an uncertain economy, the future of his ranch still hangs in the balance

    by Tony Davis, Sep 05, 2005

  • Hope for the West's open lands

    The Quivira Coalition is working hard to try to preserve the West’s remaining private ranchlands – but much more needs to be done to protect this invaluable land

    by Paul Larmer, Sep 05, 2005

  • Rangeland Revival

    The Quivira Coalition wants to bring peace and prosperity to the West’s public grazing lands, but some critics question whether the collaboration-based group can accomplish its goals

    by Tony Davis, Sep 05, 2005
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