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AoR 160: Dan Dagget on People's Contributions to Nature and Ecosystem Successes in the Southwest
Dan Dagget was one of the original members of EarthFirst!, one of the more radical environmental activist organizations of the last 50 years. In his efforts to achieve health for the Earth’s ecosyste…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
AoR 159: Can Creative Arts Affect Public Perception about Rangelands? A Brief Musing by Tip
"Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who writes its laws." People think they are primarily 'thinking things', but this quote by a musician from ancient Athens speaks to the fact that m…
Published on 5 months ago
AoR 158: Frank Stick, Splendid Painter of the Out-of-Doors, by biographer Mike Mordell
Visual arts that draw attention to wild, open spaces have been culturally important in the United States. The outdoors painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were instrumental in making A…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
AoR 157: Grazing for Fine Fuels Management and Wildfire Mitigation, with Sergio Arispe
Can we effectively limit wildfire risk or change the fire risk profile using deliberate grazing? Or is this just wishful, simplistic thinking: "Cows eat fine fuel so that stops fire, right?" These ar…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
AoR 156: 15 Years of Life on the Range with Steve Stuebner & Gretchen Hyde
Over 15 years ago, the veteran journalist Steve Stuebner and Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission executive Gretchen Hyde set out to use the new media landscape to tell good news stories about rangel…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
AoR 154: National Grazing Lands Coalition & Summer Tour in the Pacific Northwest
The National Grazing Lands Coalition (NatGLC) promotes and supports ecologically and economically sound management of grazing lands for multiple benefits to the environment and society through scienc…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
AoR 155: Roots So Deep You Can See the Devil Down There, with filmmaker Peter Byck
Does grazing management make a difference? Can we raise livestock and wildlife and take carbon out of the atmosphere and put it in soil on the same piece of land? Meet Peter Byck, self-described scie…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
AoR 152: Nathan Sayre on the Genesis and Limits of Carrying Capacity
The concept of carrying capacity has figured prominently in rangeland ecology and wildlife biology for a century and more. Where did this term come from? Nathan Sayre, a cultural geographer at UC-Ber…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
AoR 153: Back to the Future with American Fibers - Cate Havstad, Daniel Mouw, & Ed Roberson at SXSW
Can Farmer-Founded Fibers Save American Fashion? Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of RangeRevolution leather goods, and Daniel Mouw, president of Duckworth wool clothing answered this question in a pre-pa…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
AoR 151: Targeted Grazing for Wetland Health - Maria Pacioretty & Chase Carter
The Sterling Wildlife Management Area in southeast Idaho suffered from accumulated dead cattails, bulrushes, and grasses. Wildlife the area is intended habitat for were avoiding it, especially migrat…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago