Pitchstone Guides
Guides.
Some questions do not belong to a single subject. These Guides bring years of evidence, experience and argument together around the questions that matter most.
Choose a Guide ↓Four questions.
One connected landscape.
Begin with the governing idea, or go directly to the question that brought you here.
The Land is One System
Begin with the idea that connects the entire archive: soil, water, wildlife, fire, grazing and human decisions continually act on one another.
Read The Land is One System →Managed Grazing
When grazing helps, when it does not, and the conditions that determine the difference.
Read the Guide →Native, Exotic & Invasive Species
An evidence-first examination of species labels, ecological function and outcomes on the land.
Read the Guide →Ethical Wildlife Management
The responsibilities, tradeoffs and consequences behind active wildlife decisions.
Read the Guide →What a Guide does
Follow the argument. Test the limits.
A Guide takes a question seriously enough to show both what the evidence supports and where certainty ends.
Makes an argument.
It gives the reader a position to examine, not a pile of disconnected links.
Shows the evidence.
Claims lead to observations, studies, experience and cases that can be followed further.
Names the limits.
Conditions, tradeoffs, counterarguments and uncertainty remain part of the answer.
Reconnects the land.
Each question opens into the soil, water, wildlife, fire, working lands and people around it.