Matt Skoglund

Um, I got y'all messed up.

Yeah.

So they'd come in, make a mess of the place and then leave for a long time.

So the West evolved with high intensity, short duration impact followed by a long recovery.

So we have our ranch.

So we're trying to, they call it biomimicry, just mimicking nature.

And that's what we're doing on a vastly smaller scale on our ranch.

But we have it cross-fenced into a whole bunch of different pastures.

And then the herd just moves around.

And so whatever pasture they're in, every other pasture is being rested.

Okay.

And this time of year, it's particularly important because we've got all sorts of nesting grassland birds, waterfowl, sandhill cranes, and...

What happens is you create this mosaic, which is what would have happened a thousand years ago, where you've got stuff they haven't hit yet.

And by late June, that grass gets pretty tall.

Stuff they grazed maybe a month ago, and that's like medium.

And then stuff they just hammered that's like a Walmart parking lot.

And because the entire West evolved with this, for birds, depending on whether they're

you know, uh, nesting, raising chicks, feeding, like they use all those different habitats differently.

And so, um, so yeah, so, so, so that's what we do on our place.

So we run it as one herd year round.