Forestries Fig Trees May Benefit Climate By Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone - New Scientist Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer
Chronic Wasting Disease Chronic Wasting Disease Detected for First Time in Yellowstone National Park Chronic Wasting Disease has officially reached Yellowstone National Park. The first confirmed case in a mule deer underscores the growing challenge facing wildlife managers as a fatal disease continues to spread through deer, elk, and moose populations across the American West.
Bio-Diversity Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #4 We use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in sagebrush meadows
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Not Your Ordinary Horse Ranchers Michelle Gough and William E. Simpson II are two researchers who have chosen an unusually rugged life in the wilderness to study a free-roaming herd of heritage wild horses along the California-Oregon border.
Biodiversity Researchers Dump Tons of Coffee Waste Onto Degraded Land, 2 Years Later It’s Transformed Researchers have witnessed incredible results after dumping 30 truckloads of coffee pulp, a waste product of the coffee industry, onto an area of degraded former farmland in Costa Rica.
Animal Growth Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #3 Third in a series: On the Fall River in Idaho, 5-miles from the southwest corner of Yellowstone Park, we use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in sagebrush meadows. Third in a series. NOTE: this post was originally published to this site on October 21,
Wildlife & Hunting A Wolf Pack Challenged a Grizzly Over a Bison Carcass in Yellowstone. Then the ‘King’ Showed Up A wildlife photographer captured a rare standoff between a wolf pack and two grizzly bears fighting over a drowned bison in Yellowstone. Everything changed the moment the huge adult male — what one expert calls the “king of the carcass” — arrived on scene.
New World Screwworm Idaho Adds Requirements For Animal Entry In Response To U.S. New World Screwworm Cases The Idaho State Department of Agriculture instated additional state entry requirements for animals on Wednesday following detections of New World screwworm — a flesh eating parasite — in Texas and New Mexico
New World Screwworm Screwworm Cases Rise in Texas The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in Texas has risen to four as officials work to stop the spread of the invasive pest that could decimate the U.S. cattle industry.
water control Beyond Scarcity: Can We Restore Vitality in a Drying West The American West must move beyond a mindset of water scarcity and begin thinking in terms of restoring ecological vitality.
Bio-Diversity Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #2 We use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in sagebrush meadows.
Bio-Diversity Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #1 We use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in forests and meadows
Wildlife & Hunting Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Proposes Rule That Would Require Harvest Reporting - Impacting Mountain Lion Populations The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will vote in May on a proposed rule that could significantly improve how we understand and manage mountain lion populations in Texas.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Wild Horse Grift The song "Wild Horse Grift" is a powerful, truth-telling country-western style track that exposes the exploitation of America's wild horses by certain large "advocacy" nonprofits.
buying and selling ranches My Wild Land: The Place - Trailer The My Wild Land series, presented by Muley Fanatic Foundation was launched in response to the rapid residential growth of western states in recent years and subsequent loss of wildlife habitat.
Elk Why I Hunt: A New Mexico Elk Hunt Special thanks to RMEF Films partner Bass Pro Shops and the Express UU Bar Ranch in New Mexico. Thanks to their commitment to conservation, RMEF is able to tell this story
Regenerative Ranching Idaho Cattle Ranchers Seek Ways to Restore Western Land. But the Answer Isn’t Simple Despite the benefits of rotational grazing, it’s still a limited practice, with less than half of cattle operations using it, according to a study published by the USDA
Wild Horse Fire Brigade There Is A Place For Native Wild Horses On Remote Public Lands In Their Natural Role Reducing Understory Vegetation And Suppressing Fire It turns out that wild horses are the best species at understory grazing in extremely rugged, predator filled, back country, fire prone, wilderness areas.
Bio-Diversity Living Soil Film This 60-minute documentary features innovative farmers and soil health experts from throughout the U.S.
Land Stewardship Water Your Livestock, Legally Understanding your water right, and how stockwater fits within it, helps to ensure responsible water resource management in a complex and evolving legal environment.
Behind the Scenes of a Wolf Hunt Wildlife: Behind the Scenes of a Wolf Hunt “Amazing drone video of a wolf pack hunting moose in a Canadian winter. https://sire-ngcuk-pmd.fichub.com/mpx/NGP_NatGeo_GS/395/1016/video-1576503557_425615429375_mp4_video_1920x1080_4000000_primary_audio_eng_6.mp4 NOTE: this video was originally published to NationalGeographic.co.uk on December 16,
Conservation Gulleys for Grassland Restoration #12: Chupacabra Dam Another example of a small dam that spills water from an eroded gulley, to reduce road washing and to irrigate a few acres of grassland
Conservation Gulleys for Grassland Restoration: #7 Best Equipment When we divert rainstorm runoff from eroding gulleys to restore desertifying canyons and grasslands, what are the best equipment & practices?
Bio-Diversity Gulleys for Grassland Restoration #9: Harvesting Water in Steep Canyons Restoring the Southwest’s desert grasslands takes water. Most ranches treat eroding gulleys and roads – and their stormwater runoffs – as liabilities.
