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Prairie Grass vs. Cropland: What Happens Beneath the Soil Tells the Story

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Prairie Grass vs. Cropland: What Happens Beneath the Soil Tells the Story

A remarkable side-by-side look beneath prairie grass and agricultural cropland reveals just how much of a healthy grassland ecosystem exists where we can't see it.

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.

Ranchers Are Falling Into Debt and Selling Land. Carbon Credits Are a Way to Keep Farming

Ranchers Are Falling Into Debt and Selling Land. Carbon Credits Are a Way to Keep Farming

By introducing regenerative agricultural techniques that lock carbon into grazing pastures, Grassroots Carbon is offering a new income source to farmers

Gulleys for Grassland Restoration #12: Chupacabra Dam

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

America’s Ambitious Plan to Restore the Wild West

America’s Ambitious Plan to Restore the Wild West

By reintroducing iconic species like bison and pronghorns, we’re helping them reclaim their rightful place on the plains.

Trees Are Spreading Across the Great Plains. They’re Actually Making Climate Change Worse

Trees Are Spreading Across the Great Plains. They're Actually Making Climate Change Worse

We normally think of trees as being good for the environment. But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they’re heating up the earth as woodlands take over grasslands.

The Function of Time in Environmental Recovery

The Function of Time in Environmental Recovery

Understanding the grass and grazer relationship NOTE: this article was originally published to ACHMonline.org A deep dive into a Holistic Management key insight Understanding how TIME affects overgrazing (environmental damage), rather than animal numbers is one of the Four Key Insights that Allan Savory describes in Holistic Management, A

Livestock: A Powerful Tool

Livestock: A Powerful Tool for Wildfire Control

Quoting the article below, “Livestock grazing is also proposed as a potential solution for wildfires such as those that have devastated several western states this year. Researchers with the University of California Cooperative Extension are evaluating how much fine fuel — grasses and other plants known to start fires — cattle eat.

Restoring an Icon

The story has been told again and again: During the late 1800s, hunters all but wiped out one of the continent’s most iconic animals, the American bison. By the beginning of the 20th century, a species of huge ecological and cultural value had vanished from the prairie, surviving only