How Beavers Build Dams
For 20-million years, beavers have been nature’s water engineers. In North America – before Europeans trapped them out – 400-million beavers impounded 50-million surface acres of water. Beaver eradication was a disaster for continental hydrology. …
Coffee Beans Are Good for Birds, Fancy Brew or Not
As described in this article, naturally-raised coffee tastes better. And the practices that produce better tasting coffee benefit birdlife. Few Americans realize how much better naturally raised foods taste. Or that our Industrial Agriculture with …
Building Riparian Resilience Through Beaver Restoration
As this article explains, every aspect of desert ranching and conservation of wildlife is enhanced by beavers.
Installing Posts for an Artificial Beaver Dam
A simplified version of these artificial beaver dams will work great in a desert gully or runoff channel in spots where a plug and spread is impractical because there is nowhere to spill the water. …
Can The Wild Horse Fire Brigade Really Work?
To be healthy, forests and grasslands need to be grazed. The grazing must come from more than one species. For millions of years in North America, horses and their ancestors have been part of the animal …
At Hamburger Central, Antibiotics for Cattle that Aren’t Sick
Over 70% of antibiotics used in the US are for confinement livestock – cattle, pigs and chickens – about 75% of which pass through to humans. This is a huge health issue for consumers. And …
Mowing Encourages Yearly Return of Grasses and Wildflowers in Texas’ Roadways
The reason that Texas’ roadways are brush free, have excellent grass cover and lots of wildflowers is because at just the right time of their growth – once or twice per year – they …
Otters Making a Welcome Return to Texas Waterways
The return of otters and beavers to Texas rivers is a very good thing for the environment.
Uprooting FDR’s ‘Great Wall of Trees’
This article highlights the environmental mentality of the modern farming methods taught in our universities. As described below, farmers are destroying the Northern Great Plains shelter belts which the WPA planted – for their benefit …
Urban Coyote: Myth or Fact?
Surprising facts about coyotes.