As time goes on, I find myself caring less and less about the stress of my livestock and more and more about my own stress. I’m sorry. That’s just how it goes. I think that means I have become a…
There are a lot of people telling ranchers how to be more eco. I think they are almost all… not quite right. Often the people who want to change ranchers lose sight of the forest for the trees. As someone…
Its easy to tell the world how it is and not listen when it tries to correct you. Science is a method for testing our ideas about reality and a system for accumulating and sharing that information. I think I…
Short grass is preferred by all kinds of mega-fauna, big and small. Theories without facts are at best pointless self-pleasure. At worst they can be dangerous propaganda. Theories that lack supporting data are like dry skeletons. In our little world…
Ideas are powerful. Wow, good blog post, Nate. Other people might have thought of that before. But most of the time when we think of the power of ideas, we think about the power of good ideas. As humans, I…
Often times when we think of biodiversity conservation… wait, let me start over. Assuming that anyone thinks of biodiversity conservation at all, they might think of a captive breeding program to save the last blue bellied mongoose. Or a last…
The reason I am in ranching is that I want to increase the amount of life in the world and, in my small way, ranching provides the best opportunity for me to do that. So with that being the goal,…
I need to practice what I preach. This week I am going to take a deeper dive into some of the themes discussed last week, “taller vegetation” and the biodiversity depression that goes along with it. I got…
Savanna. It’s official. Last episode, I left you with a real cliff-hanger. Is the water too high? With cattle coming in twelve hours, will Nate have a wreck? Sorry to have kept you in suspense for so long…
You and I and every living organism on this planet possess an unbroken legacy that stretches back 3.9 Billion years. Not once during that entire period was our genetic chain broken. Never did our ancestors fail. Not once did they…
