Building a more resilient California

Pro-California believers of a resilient state.

We're teachers, store owners, professors, animal lovers, and more — uniting to secure our state's future behind the superpowers of managed cattle grazing.
WHAT WE BELIEVE

Fire management

Cattle grazing has the power to mitigate wildfire spread and intensity by eating away vegetation that would have otherwise been fuel for fire.

Wildlife Conservation

Cattle grazing has helped keep the ecosystem in place for centuries. Today, ranchers manage over 38 million acres of forest and rangeland in California —giving wildlife a place to call home.

Food Sustainability

Managed cattle grazing is a sustainable cycle that successfully manages the land while producing a valuable protein source for Californians — converting grass to beef.

Resilient Rancher: Markie

May 12, 2024 No Comments

Markie Hagemean Jones is a wife, an animal lover, an appraiser and a mom. Like most moms, she juggles a lot. She is also a first generation cattle rancher.

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California is known for celebrities and the Golden Gate Bridge, but get to know some of California's lesser known treasures: wide open spaces.

Hear from the experts

"It’s easy to assume that grassland birds need grassland habitat, but it’s more nuanced than that. Just as there are different species of grassland birds, those different species have different habitat needs. By design, rotational grazing creates areas of short, mid, and tall cover that serve multiple species."
Matt AllshouseAudubon California
"Livestock systems … are too precious to society to become the victim of simplification, reductionism or zealotry. These systems must continue to be embedded in and have broad approval of society.”
The Dublin DeclarationOF SCIENTISTS ON THE SOCIETAL ROLE OF LIVESTOCK
"Some of our most biodiverse habitat for wildlife and plants are created by cows and by the ranchers that steward them. California needs grazing because cows remove about 12 billion pounds of dry forage or fine fuels, as we call it, from our rangelands every year... They're the most widespread, vegetation management activity and fire prevention activity we have in California today."
Dr. Lynn HuntsingerUC Berkeley
“There are areas where grazing is divided by a fenceline. On the side without cattle, the grass is tall and not much else is growing there. But just on the other side of the fence, there’s a healthy field of wildflowers where cattle have been."
Joseph Terry, senior wildlife biologist Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office

Californians making a resilient California.

Stories of Californians working to make the Golden State's open spaces more resilient.
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