Letter: George Wuerthner Responds to Sheila Barry
An ecologist argues that endorsing the benefits of livestock ignores the many negative impacts cows have on water quality, wildlife, plant communities, soils, and ecosystems.
Tag: ranching
Pro: Public Lands Need Cattle to Meet Conservation Goals
A livestock advisor who promotes biodiversity on grazing lands explains why cattle can be beneficial to conservation.
Could Dirt Save the World from Climate Change? This Marin Group Thinks So.
A project in West Marin shows how ranchers, and a whole lot of compost, can help mitigate climate change.
Keeping it in the Family in Rio Vista
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...
Urban Farms to Open Range
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...
Big Plans for Wild Lands
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...
Ranching Photo Exhibit
Intrigued by a way of life that is “so remarkably different from that lived by the other six and a half million people in the Bay Area, one that has...
