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A New Era of Wild Horse Management
The Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Gather has come to a close. After a month’s work of early mornings and late evenings, over 900 horses will...
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Jun 8, 20207 min read
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Hundreds of Wild Horses in California Set for Roundup, In Hopes of Saving Wildlife
Written in 2018 The US Forest Service is set to roundup 1,000 wild horses from the Modoc National Forest. The gather is set to begin...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20203 min read
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Eyes on the Range
On a chilly fall weekend, I joined a diverse group of wild horse lovers to convene at the Twin Peaks herd management area (HMA), for a...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20203 min read
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What About Wildlife?
This evening I was riding on the back of a horse in a field of budding purple alfalfa. With every step that the horse took, hundreds of...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20205 min read
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What's the Fuss With Grass?
A long time ago, before colonization, native bunch grasses thrived in California. Bunch grasses, such as squirreltail, or wild rye,...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20204 min read
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Rediscovering Our Underdogs
As August is upon us, my thoughts turn to fall and the proposed gathering of wild horses. Modoc National Forest intends to gather 1,000...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20204 min read
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The Way of the Pronghorn
I’ve spent the last two years on and off in the Finnish and Norwegian arctic learning about traditional reindeer husbandry and how a...
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Jun 8, 20205 min read
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UCCE - Modoc 2019 Intern Wrap-up
The past 6 months working as an intern for UCCE in Alturas have been a blur of summer and snow, grass and soil, wild horses and...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20202 min read
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Land Management: Not a Recent Invention
Growing up, I went on a lot of road trips. These road trips typically spanned across rural America everywhere west of Illinois. There...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20203 min read
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An Outsider's Inside Look at a Wild Horse Gather
By SB The 2019 Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Gather is about halfway through and I thought it would be a great time to share some of my first...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20204 min read
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Good Fire
The 80-acre UC Berkeley Forestry Camp in Plumas County serves as a unique opportunity to implement techniques and research related to...
devilsgardenucce
Jun 8, 20204 min read
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