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> Cattle ranching, particularly in "undeveloped wilderness" is incredibly destructive of the local environment. This is the opposite of the truth. In fact cow
by delichon 2y ago
> Cattle ranching, particularly in "undeveloped wilderness" is incredibly destructive of the local environment.
This is the opposite of the truth. In fact cows are cultivating, manure spreading and seeding machines that vastly improve their future forage just by doing their thing, if not over grazed. I know a local rancher who makes all of his money as an elk hunting guide on his property. He keeps a herd of cattle for the purpose of improving the forage for the elk, and for his own table.
I invite you to come and hike on this land. I very much doubt that you would conclude that it has been damaged by the cows. In most places you could walk through a time warp to three hundred years ago and you couldn't tell the difference.