Working to Keeping Ranchers, Ranching!

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Grazing for Change features ranchers throughout California who are stewarding our state's wide open spaces. Take a moment to learn how ranchers are promoting endangered speceies, investing in public lands and conducting reserach to be better land managers.
 
Grazing for Change II - Stories of Ranchers Preserving and Enhacing California's Grasslands (click here for full document)

  • Foreword by Pelayo Alvarez
    Influencing Management - Chet Vogt, Elk Creek
    Monitoring for Success - Joe and Julie Morris, San Juan Bautista
  • Growing Green - Darrell, Callie, Ramsey and Dallice Wood, Vina & Susanville
  • Public - Private Partnership - Mike and Dan Byrne, Tulelake
  • Haven for Endangered Species - Tim, Melinda, Clayton and Carissa Koopmann, Sunol
  • A Balancing Act - George and Elaine Work, San Miguel
  • Grazing for Wildlife - Clint Victorine,  Hydesville
  • A Family Affair - Hank and Suzanne Stone, Scott and Karen Stone, and Casey and Angela Stone, Woodland
  • A New Way - Bruce and Sylvia Hafenfeld, Weldon
  • Grazing for Conservation  - Todd and Loretta Swickard, Standish
  • California Rangeland Conservation Coalition - Feature
  • California Rangeland Trust - Feature
  • Rangeland Fact Sheet

Grazing For Change I - Range and Watershed Management Success Stories in California
Click here for read the complete publication
  Watch a video on the California Rangeland Conservation Coalition that showcases the environmental benefits of grazing from partners and the value of grazing as a land management tool.

For nearly a one-half century, Fields Livestock, Castro Valley, has been grazing the same land in one of the most populated regions in the nation, California’s Bay Area. Hear how this ranching family improving public lands. (For complete story click here.)


 

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