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Forage for Conservation
Profiles written by Courtney White, originally published in Headwaters News.
Headwaters News Website
A New Mexico grassbank offers ranchers free graze while prescribed burns and thinning actions are done on their land.
Excerpt:
"In 1997, author and conservation leader Bill deBuys had an idea - and a problem.
"The idea was a novel one: to get natural fire back on the land using the tool of a grassbank -- to be located on a stretch of national forest land on top of Rowe Mesa, forty miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"His inspiration came from the Gray Ranch, part of the Malpai Borderlands Group in southwestern New Mexico, which offered its grass to ranchers in exchange for conservation easements on their home property...."
Headwaters News Website
A New Mexico grassbank offers ranchers free graze while prescribed burns and thinning actions are done on their land.
Excerpt:
"In 1997, author and conservation leader Bill deBuys had an idea - and a problem.
"The idea was a novel one: to get natural fire back on the land using the tool of a grassbank -- to be located on a stretch of national forest land on top of Rowe Mesa, forty miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"His inspiration came from the Gray Ranch, part of the Malpai Borderlands Group in southwestern New Mexico, which offered its grass to ranchers in exchange for conservation easements on their home property...."
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