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8 Ways Ranchers help the environment …
Ranchers …
- Maintain and introduce habitat to areas they’ve restored including endangered species
- Use rotational grazing to improve and protect the land.
- Manage streams and wetlands to create a buffer that helps prevent bank erosion including preventing runoff and improving fish habitat
- They protect open spaces.
- Harness solar power to exploit Arizona’s plentiful sun to power ranches and their water supplies for not only their cattle but wildlife.
- Compost cattle manure into fertilizer products that can be used for golf courses, athletic fields, gardens and out organic farms that must lean on natural fertilizers.
- Control invasive weeds and reduce plant fuel build-up on grazing lands to avoid forest fires.
- Feed cattle crops grown locally to reduce the fuel needed for transportation.
Source: Arizona Ranchers and the Arizona Beef Council
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