Editor's Note
"This is the first of four newsletters on issues surrounding the New Ranch. This edition discusses the Ecology of the New Ranch. Future newsletters will address the Economics of the New Ranch, the Market and the New Ranch, and the Community and the New Ranch."

Contents:

• "Melding Rangeland Ecology and Livestock Grazing Management" -Kris Havstad
• "From the Founders" -Jim Winder, Courtney White, Barbara Johnson
• "What About Nature? Or What Does Nature Have to Say About Grazing?" -Dan Dagget
• "To Rest, or Not To Rest: Lessons from a Chaco Fence" -Courtney White (with Kirk Gadzia)
• "The Senorito Creek Project"
• "Profile of Good Stewardship: The Davis Family and the CS Ranch"
• "The Far Horizon" -Courtney White
• "Monitoring and the USDA's Rangeland Monitoring Manual" -Dr. Kris Havstad