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AoR 150: Bildo Saravia & Lauren Svejcar - Artisanal Mezcal & Ranching in Mexico
Bildo Saravia is the owner and manager of Rancho el Ojo and Origien Raiz Mezcal. His story showcases the ways global marketing and communication can benefit local people oriented around rangeland eco…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
AoR 149: Wildfire Depletes Ecosystem Carbon Storage by >50% (Part 2) -- Germino, Maxwell, & Quicke
Dr. Germino’s latest research, published in the Communications Earth & Environment journal in November 2024, reveals a startling and significant finding: invasive grasses are turning western U.S. ran…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
AoR 148: Targeted Cheatgrass Grazing Research with Sheep -- Kelly Hopping & Riley Kowitz
A research study in the mountains of Idaho tracked cheatgrass consumption by sheep in the spring and fall. Listen to Kelly Hopping (Boise State University) and sheep rancher Riley Kowitz describe the…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
AoR 147: Wildfire Depletes Ecosystem Carbon Storage by >50% (Part 1) -- Germino, Maxwell, & Quicke
How does wildfire affect soil carbon, the ecological currency of the 21st century? Careful collaborative research involving US Geological Survey scientists, Envu, and Boise State University has begun…
Published on 10 months ago
AoR 146: Angus Whyte - Sheep Grazing in New South Wales, Australia
Angus's family has managed the Wyndham Station near the Anabranch and Darling Rivers in southern Australia for 4 generations. That and the promise of a great Australian accent should be enough to mak…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
AoR 145: Dr. John Buckhouse, Part 2, Reflections on a Half Century of Thinking in Wholes
Riparian management, water quality, and livestock grazing used in the same sentence can warm up a room with heated discussion. John Buckhouse has spent a lifetime contending for the Radical Middle, w…
Published on 11 months ago
AoR 144: Jay Wilde, Idaho Rancher, Builds Beaver Habitat to Restore Stockwater
"We have to think of beavers as our friend instead of our foe; for these watersheds to be healthy, you need beaver.” Rancher Jay Wilde experienced a paradigm shift some years ago that convinced him …
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
AoR 143: Dr. John Buckhouse, Reflections on a Half Century of Thinking in Wholes, Part 1
Riparian management, water quality, and livestock grazing used in the same sentence can warm up a room with heated discussion. John Buckhouse has spent a lifetime contending for the Radical Middle, w…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
AoR 142: Understanding Grazing Effects on Soil Carbon, the sequel with Dr. Paige Stanley
How do undergrazing and overgrazing affect soil carbon change? What does "optimal grazing" look like? This sequel episode with Paige Stanley goes deeper into the ways grazing factors affect the ecoph…
Published on 1 year ago
AoR 141: New Rangeland Wildlife Ecology & Conservation reference manual -- Lance McNew & Jeff Beck
"The fields of rangeland and wildlife management are brothers in the same fight for the conservation, protection, and management of wildlife and one cannot be completely understood without knowledge …
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago