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Canadian researchers kept the leaves of this common bunch grass clipped to various lengths. Short leaves can only feed short roots. Both overgrazing and prolonged rest can cause short leaves.

Today's featured book:

Beyond the Rangeland Conflict. Dan Dagget explores how ranchers and environmentalists can work together to solve the environmental problems of the American West. Buy at Amazon, Booksense, or Half.com

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Soil Carbon Coalition founded. Enterprise, Oregon, January 2008--The Soil Carbon Coalition, with pending 501c3 nonprofit status, plans to advance the practice of turning atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter, and to advance public awareness of the soil carbon opportunity to enhance biosphere processes and reverse global heating.

Australian author reveals comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Enterprise, Oregon, July 2007--Biosphere Media has published a US/UK edition of Allan Yeomans's controversial book Priority One: Together We Can Beat Global Warming.

Allan Yeomans has a background in physics, chemistry, meteorology, and agriculture. He realized that the rapid development of soil organic matter could solve the global warming problem, in combination with a switch to nonfossil energy sources. But most scientists, experts, organizations, and governments are unfamiliar with soil-enhancing farming and grazing methods, or the large and rapid increases in soil organic matter that they were achieving. "The undue influence of the coal, oil, and gas industries on every aspect of American politics has blinded Americans to the opportunities we have to stop global warming," he said. Continue article...

Forestry that Works. 30-minute film about excellent forest stewardship, highlighting the opportunities for public land management, and some observations on fire. Forestry that Works page, with a trailer and ordering info.

Discover the most common cause of droughts and floods worldwide. Viewable as a Flash movie with quiz, HTML slide show, or downloadable Flash and PowerPoint versions for classroom use, presentations, and offline viewing. In 6 languages:

Water cycle basics
水循环常识
Водный цикл
Los principios fundamentales del ciclo del agua
Les principes de base du cycle de l'eau
المبادئ الأساسية لدورة الماء في الطبيعة

Today's featured story

Growing community power

by Peter Donovan (May 2001)

Here in northeast Oregon's Wallowa County, our local economy has depended on the export of commodities--lumber, cattle, and grain. People feel powerless, as if their future is being dictated by outside markets and money, urban environmentalists, and federal regulations.

When you are powerless, you can't hide the fact from the younger generation. They leave. By nature they want a chance to play, on the "A" team perhaps, and to swim with the current instead of against it.Read article…

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Supporting passionate people on their own terms reviews the Enterprise Facilitation projects helping local residents create jobs in Baker and Wallowa counties in northeast Oregon.

Untrained dogs of yesteryear by Bud Williams. Why this top livestock handler prefers "untrained" dogs to modern trial dogs.

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Making better decisions: Have you ever made a bad decision? Have you made decisions that seemed good at the time, but turned out to have bad consequences? Discover some common pitfalls of decision-making, and learn why it's so easy for conflict to happen, even among well-intentioned people.