Green Grazing

While job searching, I ran across this article about the Aridland Grazing Network, published on the Nature Conservancy's website. I think its great to see that TNC has widened its view of grazing to include... well... grazing.

For so many years TNC avoided collaboration on grazing and went straight for permit buy-outs on public lands, and a rewards system for not grazing on privately owned lands. The Aridland Grazing Network is just that; a network. TNC hosts workshops in which interested parties can meet and input their ideas.

I think its great to see that the agency has began to work with ranchers on finding better ways to graze. After all, a ecologically productive area does not necessarily have to be economically unproductive.