by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 6, 2019 | Down to Earth, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Rangeland Science, Working with Nature
Glenn Elzinga is a rancher on mostly public lands in the Idaho Rocky Mountains. He’s also a forester, and his wife is a botanist…and together they have developed a practice of cattle grazing called “inherding”.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Feb 5, 2019 | Down to Earth, Economics, Farming, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Rangeland Science
We talk this week to On Pasture magazine founder Kathy Voth, whose mission is to make science accessible to people who need it–and to help keep them from being bamboozled by the latest agriculture fads.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Aug 28, 2018 | Down to Earth, Grazing, Ranching, Rangeland Science, Soil
Christine Su is CEO and co-founder of Pasturemap, a tool that helps ranchers increase productivity on their rangelands. We talk about the synergies among soil health, grass abundance, profitability, carbon sequestration, and intergenerational–and inter-regional–information sharing.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Aug 16, 2018 | Down to Earth, Rangeland Science, Soil, Working with Nature
Practicing regenerative agriculture Nicole Masters is an agroecologist who teaches, writes about, and consults on regenerative agriculture and soil regeneration. With projects in both the US and her home, New Zealand, she has worked on nearly a million acres of crop...
by Lynne Whitbeck | May 31, 2018 | Down to Earth, Policy, Radical Center, Rangeland Science, Rural Communities, Working with Nature
Saving the Gunnison Sage Grouse: Community Conservation in Action In Gunnison, Colorado, there is an innovative collaboration led by the National Resources Conservation Service and involving local conservation groups and state offices to conserve the Gunnison Sage...
by Lynne Whitbeck | Feb 28, 2018 | Down to Earth, Grazing, Rangeland Science
Science on the range: studying wide open landscapes in the American West Geographer Nathan Sayre talks about homesteaders, hubris, and healing … and the challenges facing public and private lands and the people and creatures who inhabit them. He is a professor of...
