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"I am tired of 'no'.

"Recently, I attended a meeting at the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada where two ranchers, a husband and wife team, tried hard to convince the BLM to let them implement a visionary and audacious plan to restore life to Teel's Marsh, once a thriving terminal lake but now a lifeless salt flat. They passionately argued that they could revive the marsh by repairing the dysfunctional water cycle in the 100,000-acre watershed. Their daring idea? Break up the capped soil (often impervious to water infiltration) with the ground-disturbing impact of a thousand, or more, cattle hooves.

"The ranchers' credibility rested on their long experience in range restoration, including their success in creating life on sterile mine tailings through the 'poop-and-stomp' action of animal impact. And their work was backed up by monitoring data they explained...."