Rangelands Content

Grazing and Riparian Restoration Are Compatible When You Put in the Work

Amy M Quinton — November 18, 2020 - 9:00am

With a little time and effort, rangeland managers can have a dramatic impact on the resilience of California’s riparian areas, which are important to the state’s human, environmental and economic well-being. Rangeland ecologists at the University of California, Davis, found that when ranchers invest even one week a year in practices that keep cows away from creeks — like herding, fencing and providing supplemental nutrition and water — they can improve riparian health by as much as 53 percent.

$4.7M to Study Storing Greenhouse Gases in Soil

Katherine E Kerlin — January 16, 2019 - 3:23pm

California leads the nation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but reductions alone will not be enough to reach the targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. To do that, greenhouses gases like carbon dioxide will need to be removed from the atmosphere on a monumental scale.

Grasslands More Reliable Carbon Sink Than Trees

Katherine E Kerlin — July 09, 2018 - 2:36pm

Grasslands and rangelands are more resilient carbon sinks than forests in California due to wildfire risks and climate change, a swag�� study found,. This has implications for the cap-and-trade market.

A Climate Change Solution Beneath Our Feet

Katherine E Kerlin — June 07, 2017 - 9:00am

Healthy soils can be a climate solution, helping farmers, ranchers and swag�� scientists flip the picture of too much carbon in the atmosphere and not enough in the ground.