July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
A broad coalition of agriculture and environmental groups working on rangeland science and advocacy based on the idea that working landscapes and healthy farming and ranching communities are critical components of maintaining healthy ecosystems.
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
The Alameda County Resource Conservation District provides technical and educational services for natural resource conservation and agriculture enhancement. Collaborates with private landowners, local, state, and federal agencies and other organizations to develop and implement various conservation and agricultural strategies.
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April 24, 2012 by Jacoba Charles
A project in West Marin shows how ranchers, and a whole lot of compost, can help mitigate climate change.
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October 01, 2011 by Jacoba Charles
For more than a century, Jeanne McCormack’s family has grown grain and raised livestock on a few thousand acres near Rio Vista. But she and her husband Al Medvitz didn’t take a straight line to ranching. Instead, they detoured through Africa and Asia. Now, they’re in it for the long haul.
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October 01, 2011 by Sibella Kraus
Even though foodie culture is an ever-growing phenomenon in the Bay Area, it’s still surprising to many that nearly half the land in our region is dedicated to ranching or farming.
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April 01, 2011 by Glen Martin
When it comes to the challenge of preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, population growth, and other pressures, you have to think big. A new regional plan does just that with a proposal for a comprehensive Conservation Lands Network whose implementation would help ensure the preservation of diverse habitats essential for the survival of healthy populations of native species.
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January 01, 2002 by Marilyn Smulyan
Intrigued by a way of life that is “so remarkably different from that lived by the other six and a …
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