Restoring Montana's Forestland
The Davaz's dedication to preserving a diverse, scenic, working landscape has led them down a path of partnership and cooperation with the NRCS to achieve their land restoration and conservation goals.
The Davaz's dedication to preserving a diverse, scenic, working landscape has led them down a path of partnership and cooperation with the NRCS to achieve their land restoration and conservation goals.
For over three decades, the Kipps have been safeguarding this land, collaborating with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
Bart and Wendy Morris operate Oxbow Cattle Company just outside Missoula, Montana. They raise all-natural, grass-finished beef on about 5,000 acres of owned and leased land. The company worked with the NRCS through the Agricultural Land Easement and Enviromental Quality Incentives Programs.
Forestry management near Roundup, Montana, helps improve grazing and reduce wildfire risk due to overgrown and unhealthy forests.
The Grunenfelder Ranch near Helena, Montana, is being kept in operation, building a sustainable landscape and showing how ranching still has a place in an area that is rapidly becoming more developed.
The Barthelmess Ranch near Malta, Montana offers a beautiful landscape of sagebrush and hardy native grasses. NRCS Montana and partner organizations have assisted the Ranch to create a sustainable grazing model that will help ensure the beautiful landscape remains for years to come.
Hear from three producers across Big Horn County and the Crow Reservation that are using different methods to control the invasive warm season grass, ventenata.
The Bench Ranch has been using intensive, rotational grazing for 35 years to improve soil health and forage production.
The Key O Ranch, operated by the Keogh family, has been working with NRCS for decades to improve their rangeland health through grazing management to produce healthy cattle, clean water, and wildlife habitat.
The J Bar L Ranch manager, Stephen Becklund, has transitioned several old alfalfa fields to perennial pastures that provide good cattle forage and opportunities for intensive rotation grazing.