Profiles written by Courtney White, originally published in Headwaters News.
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Reseachers at the Jornada Experimental Range found Corriollo cattle from Mexico are best at rustling up forage on arid lands.

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"What role might livestock play in this emerging concern for sustainability?

"At the Jornada Experimental Range, this question is very much on the mind of Dr. Ed Frederickson.

"For starters, he wants to know how beef cattle use landscapes and what their impacts are over time.

"It's an interesting question, in part, because there really aren't any specific answers," said Frederickson. 'Like most ecological questions, every component of the system being studied is changing at various rates. The situation is never the same at any two points in time....'"