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Desert Grassland Restoration: Using Cattle to Stop Erosion

  • Chris Gill

Chris Gill

21 Mar 2016
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Second in a series on “animal impact”, this video shows cows being used to re-grow grass in deadspots, and how cows can help stop erosion by healing gully headcuts.

Animal Impact Made Easy #2 from Christopher Gill on Vimeo.

When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

Siskiyou County's wildfire crisis raises a fundamental question: what happens when a landscape loses the large herbivores that once helped shape it?
12 Aug 2026 5 min read
Restoring Biodiversity - 8/11/2026

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Crops grown beneath elevated solar arrays. US Tribes get bison. How extreme heat is costing us sleep. And more....
11 Aug 2026 4 min read
American Farmers Slid Solar Panels Over 62,000 Acres Of Farmland, And The Biggest Payoff Had Almost Nothing To Do With Electricity

American Farmers Slid Solar Panels Over 62,000 Acres Of Farmland, And The Biggest Payoff Had Almost Nothing To Do With Electricity

Research from the University of Arizona found that crops grown beneath elevated solar arrays often yielded as much or more than those in full sun while using significantly less water.
09 Aug 2026 4 min read
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