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 […]
Forests for Carbon Storage
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 […]
Alan Savory gives a popular and very misleading TED talk
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 […]
The need to manage national forests as carbon sinks
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 […]
Canada’s boreal forest top-rated carbon warehouse
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 […]
In Obama’s Team, 2 Camps on Climate
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 […]