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Articles

What is Regenerative Grazing and Why Does It Work So Well?

Domestic animals can either hurt the land, or heal the land.

Can we graze livestock in a way that repairs, rebuilds, revitalizes, and restores ecosystem function?

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Videos

Small Pasture Management for Cattle

This video is about Utah Cattleman Darrell Yardley, who attended an NRCS (National Resource Conservation Service) pasture management school and instituted a rotational grazing system on 23 acres. As he explains, this has produced more forage for his cattle.

In the West, the stocking questions usually are “how many mother cows per acre?” In the drier areas of Texas, the question is usually “how many acres per cow?” These are the wrong questions: Both ignore how much time cattle are left in any place, and how much ‘rest’ or recovery, is allowed between grazings.

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Releasing Beaver on the Fall River in Idaho, 5-Miles from Yellowstone Park

This video of Pitchstone Waters’ second beaver release during the summer of 2020 contains excellent remarks by staff of the Idaho Fish and Game Department.

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