| September 18, 2006: Coming together for fire: The Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership Roundtable is bringing diverse stakeholders together to address wildfires in one of the West's most populous areas.
A guest column by Lisa Dale and Tom Fry.
Aug.
22, 2006: Power
to Change: A newspaperman with "green"
ideals helps a rural electricity co-op in western Colorado
tackle conservation and add locally produced power to the
grid. A guest column by Ed Marston.
June
26, 2006: Conservation
that pays: A Colorado couple ends the debate on grazing
by proving that ranchers can have their grass and graze it
too -- and turn a profit.
May
22, 2006: Instinctual
grazing: USU professor believes, and a Montana rancher
proves, that animals can be taught to forage in a way to improve
the range.
March
15 , 2006: Replenishing
land and people: For nearly three decades, a biologist
has worked the rangelands of the Southwest, and cultivated
the caregivers of that land in the process.
Feb.
15 , 2006: Think
like a creek: A retired Forest Service biologist
uses the natural meanderings of waterways to help restore
the ecological health of the land.
Jan.
16 , 2006: "A Working
Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement" urges
conservationists to abandon the unrealistic goal of "pristine"
and instead focus on working to create healty ecosystems.
Part II.
Jan.
4 , 2006: "A Working
Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement" discusses
new standards for determining rangeland viability and what
activities enhance it. Part I.
Nov . 15, 2005: A rancher
uses fire and rotational grazing to erase decades of abuse
and restore the native landscape on his New Mexico ranch.
Oct.
17, 2005: A new book "Gardeners
of Eden" urges humans to abandon their hands-off preservation
efforts and put Nature back to work.
Sept.
14, 2005: A California
woman whose family was forced to quit ranching now uses conservation
easements to help ranchers hold on to their way of life.
Aug.
3, 2005:
Scientists use adaptive management
practices to restore rangeland at New Mexico's Jornada Experimental
range. Part II.
July
27 , 2005:
Scientists use adaptive management
practices to restore rangeland at New Mexico's Jornada Experimental
range.
June
15 , 2005:The Nature Conservancy
helps sage grouse habitat restoration efforts by providing
graze to cattle on its Wyoming Heart Mountain Grassbank.
May
17 , 2005:
A New Mexico grassbank offers
ranchers free graze while prescribed burns and thinning actions
are done on their land.
April
18, 2005:
Environmental Defense is taking
its conservation efforts out of the courtroom and onto the
landscape via collaborative agreements.
March
8, 2005:
A rancher in Montana's wildlife-rich
Madison Valley puts wildlife first and creates a healthier
ecosystem for wolves, elk and cattle.
Jan.
18, 2005: A
Catron County rancher goes against community sentiment,
and saves his ranch through dialogue with the Forest
Service.
Dec.
15, 2004: In
remote Eagle Creek, Ariz., beleaguered ranchers soon
realized
they could join forces to care for the land or go under
on their own .
Nov.
18, 2004: A
Colorado couple shows conservation grows among neighbors,
and recreation is not the saving grace everyone seems
to think.
Sept.
20, 2004: A
growing number of ranchers find that if they treat their livestock
with gentle respect, they bring home more from the auction
yard.
Aug.
4, 2004: Much
of the Southwest's de facto wilderness needs work, including
with chainsaws, or natural landscapes will disappear
July
6, 2004: A
New Mexico ranch couple first decided the health of the range
was their top priority, but fat cattle and fatter bottom lines
followed
June
11, 2004: Arizona
rancher Jim Crosswhite uses government ideas and federal grants
to bring back water quality and wildlife habitat
May
10, 2004: New
Mexico ranchers unite traditional antagonists in a battle
over the damage coalbed methane drilling is doing to their
land.
April
1, 2004: New
Mexico rancher Sam Montoya proves ranching becomes sustainable
when the focus is on the grass, not on the cattle.
Feb. 18,
2004: There's
a new conservation movement across the West that favors cooperation,
not conflict, to restore the land. |
