Imagine the Great Plains 200 years ago. You had an environment with many animal species utilizing the same prairie and yet not overgrazing it. If you take a look at each animal species that existed, ...

Environmentalists are trying to cut two federal land management agencies off at the pass over expansion of grazing rights.

Many familiar grains today, like quinoa, amaranth, and the millets, hemp, and buckwheat, all have traits that indicate that they coevolved to be dispersed by large grazing mammals. During the ...

A cow at the Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center in Browns Valley being tracked as part of research on cattle grazing personalities. (Maggie Creamer/UC Davis) Not all cattle are the same ...

Federal Move Could Remove Hundreds of Montana Bison From Public Land Amid Cattle Grazing Fight ...

Secrets regarding the spread of the world's grasslands — which proved vital to countless species of grazing animals and may have influenced humanity's evolution — have now been uncovered in fossil ...

A proposal to revoke permits allowing a conservation group's bison herd to graze on federal land argued the animals are wildlife, not livestock.

Most grazing animals spend their time in open pastures. But there is a movement to raise livestock in the forest to benefit animals and the environment. If you see a cow out grazing in the Midwest, ...

The idea with targeted grazing is to focus on landscape and vegetation goals, according to Dan Macon, the UC Cooperative Extension livestock and natural resources advisor for Placer, Nevada, Sutter ...

You know, not every solution needs to be complicated to be absolutely awesome. Take the humble clothespin, for example, two pieces of cleverly carved wood (or plastic; we won’t judge) and a spring.

From tongue rolling alpacas to irritable yaks and perturbed pigs, new research has lifted the lid on why some farm and zoo animals cope well with captivity and others display signs of stress.

Large grazing animals have a strong selective force on plants, certain plants have evolved traits to thrive on pastoral landscapes. Spengler and Mueller theorize that yak herding may have helped drive ...