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Bad Ranchers, Bad Cows

By Vickery Eckhoff, February 27, 2015 // 78 Comments

Few Americans visit the nation’s public grass and forest lands; fewer still know what livestock damage looks like on them.

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"The Heretic: Livestock Is The Only Hope For A Dying Planet"

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Allan Savory’s Fantasy Thrills Ranchers, But He’s Wrong

By James McWilliams, February 18, 2015 // 33 Comments

Allan Savory has made a career claiming that beef can reverse global warming. His working hypothesis—and do note, it is nothing more than that—is that repopulating desertified landscapes with cattle would revive grasslands, sequester carbon, and, no joke, save the... [View more]

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Sustainable Cowboys or Welfare Ranchers of the American West?

By Vickery Eckhoff, February 12, 2015 // 100 Comments

Five hundred million dollars[1]. That’s what 21,000[2] ranchers who graze their livestock on America’s iconic western rangelands are estimated to have cost US taxpayers... [View more]

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The Media Adores Ranchers. Here’s Why They Shouldn’t.

By Vickery Eckhoff, February 7, 2015 // 41 Comments

The US livestock industry has enormous economic and political clout. But news reports consistently highlight a small segment of it — ranchers grazing livestock on... [View more]