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Firefighting Cattle: Targeted Grazing Makes Firebreaks in Cheatgrass

October 01, 2020 Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research Service

Cattle grazing on a nearly half mile wide targeted strip of cheatgrass near Beowawe, Nevada, created a firebreak that helped limit a rangeland fire to just 54 acres this past August compared to rangeland fires that more commonly race across thousands of acres of the Great Basin.

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