Rancher Takes an Unconventional Path to Restoring His Land
“Chris Gill, 72, together with his family own Circle Ranch in far-West Texas. He thinks of the desert habitat, its flora and fauna, as a single system.”
Call for Horse Grazing Pilot Study To Explore Wildfire Mitigation
Wild horses and burros, properly managed in combination with other animals, can help prevent wildfire.
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The Vanishing Mule Deer
As this beautifully photographed video from The Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) observes, our precious mule deer are vanishing. MDF blames ‘competition’ of humans for land. This is inaccurate. The irregular, long term decline of mule …
West Texas Beaver Wetlands: The Historic Record
When European settlers arrived in North America in the 1500s, they found as many as 400 million beavers. These four-footed water engineers had created—and maintained—an estimated 50 million acres of beaver ponds. Beavers populated the …
Needed: A Safer Way to Fight Wildfire
Recently I was touring ranches near Ruidosa, New Mexico, and learned that toxic chemicals contained in fire-retardants like these had washed into their river systems, killing the fisheries which they are now trying to detoxify …
A New Study Suggests That Even The Toughest Pesticide Regulations Aren’t Nearly Tough Enough
“There were 1.6 million new cases of cancer last year, with 580,000 dying of the disease. Farm and industrial chemicals certainly play a major role in this epidemic. Yet little is done, with the poison-makers …
The Secret Lives of Well-Digging Burros
“Far-West Texas burros are eradicated by state and federal parks & land managers based on the belief that they “compete” with other wildlife for water. In reality – as this Arizona study explains – “it …
Boyd Elder Is the Most Famous Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
“A great profile on our pal Boyd Elder.
Are North America’s Wild Horses Native?
The fake science of invasive species biology classifies horses as “invasive” “exotics” that “compete” with “natives” to “harm” “ecological systems”. These terms are neither scientifically defined, nor consistently applied. As Dan Flores, author of American …
Can Livestock Restore Drought-Stricken Grasslands?
Americans assume our range practices are the most advanced anywhere. Yet these ideas originated in Africa and remain generally unaccepted by American universities and agencies.
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Wild Texas
“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that …