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Farming with The Wild
Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches
Dan Imhoff
Excerpt from Program:
"Today, roughly two-thirds of public, private, and tribal lands are used for agriculture, either in grazing, haying, or row cropping. This expansion of agriculture, primarily to support the grain-fed livestock industry, has sent ripple effects across the landscape. Half of the wetlands in the lower 48 states have been lost in the last century. Each year, some 670 million birds are exposed to pesticides in the United States, of which 10 percent are fatal. In order to protect livestock from predators 100,000 coyotes, bobcats, bears, wolves, and mountain lions are estimated to be killed each year by U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services. It is not surprising, then, that farming contributes to 42 percent of the endangered species listed in the United States, and ranching to 26 percent. With only nine percent of U.S. lands designated as wildlands, the future of biodiversity depends on the protection, restoration, and expansion of habitat into existing agriculture. Fortunately, there has been an effort underway for some time to combine agriculture and conservation at a deep level. This nation-wide movement can be described by a number of terms: conservation-based agriculture, agroecology, agroforestry, ecoagriculture, permaculture, and farming with the wild.
"Daniel Imhoff is a writer and researcher and has been published extensively on issues related to food, sustainable agriculture, the environment, and design. A co-founder of the northern California-based nonprofit Watershed Media, he has written and published books designed to catalyze awareness and inspire direct action around urgent issues, including: The Guide to Tree-Free, Recycled, and Certified Papers (1999); Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood (2001); Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches (2003); and Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World, published in Spring 2005 by Watershed Media and Sierra Club Books. Imhoff is also the president and co-founder of the Wild Farm Alliance and the co-host of a monthly Farm and Garden radio program on Mendocino County Public Broadcasting where he regularly interviews leading activists in the world of sustainable agriculture. He lives with his wife and two children; they divide their time between Healdsburg, CA and a small homestead farm in California's Anderson Valley."
Presentation Outline:
Dan Imhoff
Excerpt from Program:
"Today, roughly two-thirds of public, private, and tribal lands are used for agriculture, either in grazing, haying, or row cropping. This expansion of agriculture, primarily to support the grain-fed livestock industry, has sent ripple effects across the landscape. Half of the wetlands in the lower 48 states have been lost in the last century. Each year, some 670 million birds are exposed to pesticides in the United States, of which 10 percent are fatal. In order to protect livestock from predators 100,000 coyotes, bobcats, bears, wolves, and mountain lions are estimated to be killed each year by U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services. It is not surprising, then, that farming contributes to 42 percent of the endangered species listed in the United States, and ranching to 26 percent. With only nine percent of U.S. lands designated as wildlands, the future of biodiversity depends on the protection, restoration, and expansion of habitat into existing agriculture. Fortunately, there has been an effort underway for some time to combine agriculture and conservation at a deep level. This nation-wide movement can be described by a number of terms: conservation-based agriculture, agroecology, agroforestry, ecoagriculture, permaculture, and farming with the wild.
"Daniel Imhoff is a writer and researcher and has been published extensively on issues related to food, sustainable agriculture, the environment, and design. A co-founder of the northern California-based nonprofit Watershed Media, he has written and published books designed to catalyze awareness and inspire direct action around urgent issues, including: The Guide to Tree-Free, Recycled, and Certified Papers (1999); Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood (2001); Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches (2003); and Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World, published in Spring 2005 by Watershed Media and Sierra Club Books. Imhoff is also the president and co-founder of the Wild Farm Alliance and the co-host of a monthly Farm and Garden radio program on Mendocino County Public Broadcasting where he regularly interviews leading activists in the world of sustainable agriculture. He lives with his wife and two children; they divide their time between Healdsburg, CA and a small homestead farm in California's Anderson Valley."
Presentation Outline:
- Elements of Farming with the Wild
- Agricultural Benefits of Conservation-based Agriculture
- Other Benefits of Conservation-based Agriculture
- More Basic Benefits of Conservation-based Agriculture
- Salmon Safe
- Grass Farming Movement
- Wild Garden Farmers
- Watershed Activism
- Creating Connectivity
- Watershed Media
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