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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

Articles

Vast Swaths of BLM Rangelands Don’t Meet Health Standards, Millions of Acres Remain Unassessed

As in this article, declining rangeland health is almost always blamed on too many cattle.

In fact, like declining forest health, the root cause is too few animals, left in the same places for too long.

As the ecologist Allan Savory has said for 50-years, “Our rangelands are understocked and overgrazed.”

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Videos

The Rules That Govern Life on Earth - with Sean B Carroll

The author of ‘The Serengheti Rules’ has shown that in order to be healthy, grasslands need (1) keystone grazers, (2) many prey species and (3) many predators. In this 50-minute video he explains these ideas at the home of the British Royal Academy.

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And that’s it - as always thank you..

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