Today, sheep and goat grazing is being rediscovered and honed as a viable and effective tool to address contemporary vegetation management challenges, like controlling invasive exotic weeds, reducing fire risk in the wildland-urban interface, increasing soil fertility, improving vegetation, and finding chemical-free ways to control weeds in organic agriculture.
More and more plants are trespassing across millions of acres. From invasive weeds to excess fire fuels, these unwanted plants are spoiling and fracturing America’s landscapes. Now, a new breed of land and livestock manager is riding to the rescue. Grazing-for-hire sheep and goat operators and managers of private and public lands are teaming up to tackle these plants. Their work is renewing and refreshing the land.
Employing livestock to manipulate vegetation is as old as grazing itself. Promoting grazing to manage vegetation as a paid service – typically called prescribed or targeted grazing – is a more recent phenomenon. As targeted grazing has gained a foothold in the land management arena, both research and experience have evolved to provide land managers and grazing-service providers with more definitive tools for managing vegetation.
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Roger Ingram presented “Targeted Grazing Survey Report” at the Range Management Advisory Committee (RMAC).
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