Cattle congregating in the riparian area, Chama, New Mexico. Photo George Wuerthner
SOIL CARBON AND LIVESTOCK
Rangelands make up a large proportion of the Earth’s surface, and the soils hold a significant amount of sequestered carbon (Schuman,G.E et al. 2001). Rangelands are estimated to contain more than one-third of the world’s above […]
Continue Reading →Currently, there is a bill in the Massachusetts legislature that would ban logging on all of the state lands. The premise of the legislation is that logging contributes significantly to CO2 emissions. The legislation sponsors argue that the best use of Massachusetts state-owned property is to maintain intact forests for carbon storage.
If […]
Continue Reading →Holistic grazing guru pieces together false assumptions to produce ineffective but popular recommendations on climate change-
Allan Savory is a name not well known to most people concerned about climate change. However, he has been preaching his gospel of holistic grazing for a generation now and is somewhat loved by the Western livestock grazing industry, […]
Continue Reading →Forest fire prevention? Thinning? Maximize size of individual tress? Leave it alone? It’s hard to say
The article below is related to the one posted about “Sen. Udall sponsors bill to attack pine beetles.”
It’s good to finally see some attention to the role of forests as carbon sinks, but it is not clear how […]
Continue Reading →The Carbon the World Forgot — the boreal forest-
“The boreal forest stores more carbon than any land-based ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report that says the Amazon is no match for Canada’s boggy bush.”
It turns out that a major reason is all peat under the trees. Too many carbon sequestration […]
Continue Reading →Want a relatively inexpensive method of removing carbon with small economic impact? Remove livestock from the vast acreage of public lands-
Story in the New York Times. Two camps. By John Broder (story doesn’t mention the above because Obama team is unaware of how much cattle and sheep reduce the amount of carbon rangelands […]
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