"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."

"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.”

"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."

“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."