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The Bugs We Can’t Live Without
“As discussed below, “Without insects, the world’s populations of larger insectivorous species like birds, bats and freshwater fish would simply collapse”.
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Wyoming’s Big Game Migrations 50 Years after the Creation of the Wilderness Areas
“Pitchstone Waters is just west of the Winegar Hole and Jedidiah Smith Wilderness Areas shown in this video. At this time, elk are migrating out of the Parks through us as an early winter drops […]
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The Rangeland Analysis Platform
“This innovative platform marries Landsat satellite imagery with thousands of on-the-ground vegetation measurements.
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Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #4
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. Fourth in a series.
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Lessons From the Prairie
A Land-Management Legend Offers 50 Years of Soil-Nourishing Wisdom.
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Scorched Portugal Turns to the Goat as a Low-Cost Firefighter
In nature, different animals eat different kinds of plants and there are specific species for every such “ecological niche”. Where native animals have gone missing, domestic goats can be used to replace animals that once […]
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Baby Boomers Are Leaving Behind a Trail of Luxury Ranches
It is true that Western legend no longer captures American imagination as it once did. But the main reason many Colorado – and Western – ranch sellers can’t sell their big ranches is that so […]
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Understanding the Ecological Role of Wolves in Yellowstone National Park
Loathed as a threat and nuisance, the wolf population in Yellowstone National Park was essentially wiped out by the mid 1920’s. That changed in 1995, when the National Park Service reintroduced them there, with the […]
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Grizzly Bears: The Fierce Predator of the North
Grizzly bears are at the top of the food chain, but much of their diet consists of fruit, roots, and grasses.
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