wildlife

Frac Sand’s Wild Refugees

March 29, 2015
Brian DeVore
agriculture, clean energy future, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, Wildlife
erosion, frac sand mining, fracking Bob Christie, hydrofracturing, Land Stewardship Project, mine reclamation, overburden, wildlife, Wisconsin frac sand

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project There’s a farm near the Jackson County, Wis., community of Hixton that is in the process of being destroyed by being turned into a frac sand…
Grazing as a Public Good in Western Minnesota

July 30, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog
conservation grazing, grasslands, Land Stewardship Project. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, managed rotational grazing, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan, Nature Conservancy, prairies, public lands grazing, riparian corridors grazing, wetlands, wildlife, wildlife refuges, WMA

As a Nature Conservancy scientist based in a Midwestern state, Steve Chaplin thinks a lot about the impact agriculture has on ecological treasures such as native tallgrass prairie. “Other than plowing, grazing…
Healthy Farms, Healthy Frogs, Healthy Land

December 2, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
amphibians, Apocalyptic Planet, Burleigh County Soil Health Team, cover crops, diverse farming, Farm as Natural Habitat, frogs, Land Stewardship Project, perennial farming systems, pollinators, riparian grazing, soil health, sustainable agriculture, wildlife

While walking a piece of North Dakota landscape under a withering summer sun, one’s thoughts turn to moisture—or rather, the lack of it. So when I and other participants in a soil…