With the advent of the second Trump administration, priorities within the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management will be shifting to a less restrictive approach to how the lands they currently ...

That was a key takeaway from the Rustici Rangeland Science Symposium at the University of California, Davis, in February. Because targeted grazing can effectively reduce fuel loads and manage invasive ...

BOISE, Idaho — Raising sheep and lambs is one of Idaho's oldest agricultural traditions. It's also an industry among the top 10 in the United States for wool production. Easy to say, they bring a lot ...

In an innovative approach to wildfire prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service is enlisting the help of hundreds of sheep to graze in the Arrowhawk Fuels Reduction Project area ...

The Center for Biological Diversity on April 29 notified federal agency leaders that it plans to sue over a grazing plan’s Endangered Species Act implications. A March 31 memorandum of understanding ...

U.S. Senators John Curtis (R-UT) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced the Strategic Grazing to Reduce the Risk of Wildfire Act, bipartisan legislation to direct the Department of the Interior ...

MALAD, Idaho — May 6, 2025 — A recently published University of Idaho-led study suggests extending fall grazing of federal allotments could stymie invasive annual grasses while providing ranchers with ...