In the East Bay, livestock ponds are surprisingly important amphibian habitat.
Tag: rangelands
Climate Change
Climate Solutions Already Exist in Nature, a Reminder
California wants to go carbon negative. But even policymakers tend to overlook the best way to get there.
Farming and Ranching
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.
Farming and Ranching
Letter: Sheila Barry Responds to George Wuerthner
Santa Clara County livestock advisor Sheila Barry on why livestock grazing is valued for conservation.
Farming and Ranching
Pro-Grazing Pieces Don’t Do a Full Accounting of Livestock Costs
An ecologist argues that the presumed benefits of grazing—if they are real in the first place–can only be realized in small areas and/or result in excessive widespread collateral damage to wildlife, soils, water, and vegetation.
Farming and 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.
Farming and Ranching
Con: Cattle Grazing Is Incompatible with Conservation
Two experts on grazing offer their opinion on why cattle should be barred from public lands.
Wildlife
What People Talk About When They Talk About Sage Grouse
How the greater sage grouse, a chicken-like resident of the sagebrush prairie, became what some call the most important conservation story in a generation.
Spring Issue 2015
Range of Possibilities
If ranchers are such great conservation partners, why has ranching often been viewed as bad for the environment?
