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How this California business puts animals to work preventing wildfires

by Maria Hollenhorst

Oct 25, 2023

Shepherdess Land & Livestock offers prescribed grazing services with sheep and goats.

“We use our animals in a very special, targeted type of manner, very different to traditional ranching with grazing animals,” says Cole Bush, owner and operator of Shepherdess Land & Livestock in California’s Ojai Valley.

Paul Mirah Collins

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The business of "wildfire survival" is booming

by Kaleb Roedel

Aug 11, 2022

Tree trimming and brush clearing around a home can improve its chances of making it through a blaze — but those services can be costly.

Dustin Carlson, a foreman with Wilderness Forestry, uses a high-powered weed trimmer on brush in northwest Reno, Nevada.

Kaleb Roedel/Mountain West News Bureau

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