Posts Tagged: wildlife

Frac Sand’s Wild Refugees

Posted March 29th, 2015 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, clean energy future, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, Wildlife.

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project There’s a farm near the Jackson County, Wis., community of Hixton that is in the process of being destroyed by being turned into a… Read more »

Grazing as a Public Good in Western Minnesota

Posted July 30th, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog.

As a Nature Conservancy scientist based in a Midwestern state, Steve Chaplin thinks a lot about the impact agriculture has on ecological treasures such as native tallgrass prairie. “Other than… Read more »

Healthy Farms, Healthy Frogs, Healthy Land

Posted December 2nd, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

While walking a piece of North Dakota landscape under a withering summer sun, one’s thoughts turn to moisture—or rather, the lack of it. So when I and other participants in… Read more »