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75 million buffalo would keep that stuff ate down. 30 million would be a good start!
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75 million buffalo would keep that stuff ate down. 30 million would be a good start! Kind of the original high stocking density/short duration rotational grazing scheme, eh? Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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75 million buffalo would keep that stuff ate down. 30 million would be a good start! Kind of the original high stocking density/short duration rotational grazing scheme, eh? Geno yes, wildfires and Indian fires set where fuel allowed, no imported nuisance species then.
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You'll welcome cheatgrass when you have Yellowstar thistle. ah yes! Centaurea solstitialis! I have seen pure stands covering 1,000s of acres, in CA. Lots in WA, ID, and OR too. nasty.
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They Graze year round up on Arizona State Trust lands The Cattle are sick skinny and look like walking dead. no grass to talk about. All they have to eat is Scrub Oak. I do not think they eat the Cedars and Pinion Pine.
One of the Guys that I know up there told me when we were driving around that he Purchased one of the Local Ranchers Cows to eat and show support to the Rancher.
He told me that he could not eat it and he would not even feed it to his dogs it was so bad. they ground it up and used it as fertilizer. He said he had never tasted anything so foul in his life and tough as rawhide. That sounds like what the longhorns looked like before they started importing Herefords and other English breeds. I've never eaten longhorn but they sure look scrawny. I know they'd live on pretty sparse ground if they had to. These poor animals look like Bones with a very Thin Leather stretched so tight around them they look worst that an anorexic girl wearing Spandex Absolutely no meat to them at all . Heads hanging so low like they could not even hold them up any longer. if someone had them in a corral they would put them down to save them from the Starvation they were going threw.
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Longhorns can be quite vigorous. Just put them on some western Canadian or northern US mountain summer range. I like 'em..Just cowboy up, boys. Mexican fighting bulls can be even spicier. Cross 'em and replace those lazy English breeds.Sleep with one eye open in hunting camp....just a thought
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Your BLM leases have cattle on them in winter time?? No Jim, calves are shipped just the outlaw cattle are grazing free. We have quite a few winter BLM grazing allotments.
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