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Understanding Brittleness to Better Understand Your Land

  • Chris Gill

Chris Gill

15 Jan 2018
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Learn the concept of brittleness and how understanding where your region falls on the brittleness scale can affect the management options for your ranch or farm.

Understanding Brittleness to Better Read Your Land from Savory Institute on Vimeo.

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C.S. Lewis's 1944 Lecture "The Inner Ring."

The Wild Horse Fire Brigade offers a natural solution: horses graze the grass and brush on vacant wild-lands, and manage fuels that cattle avoid and that fuel extreme fires, creating safer landscapes without costly mechanical treatments or prescribed burns that often release even more toxins.
29 May 2026 5 min read
Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #2

Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #2

We use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in sagebrush meadows.
28 May 2026
Restoring Biodiversity - 5/26/2026

Restoring Biodiversity - 5/26/2026

Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission proposes rule that would require harvest reporting. Using goats instead of herbicides to control weeds. And more...
27 May 2026 1 min read
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