Professors and students from Stanford University’s Biology/Earth Systems course titled Ecology and Natural History of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma (JRBPOO) visited TomKat Ranch
A Letter from Stanford Bio 105
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Sustainability Articles
Making a “Natural Experiment” on the Ranch
At TomKat Ranch we manage Harding Grass. This grass is tricky. It, and its cousin (from the same genus), Reed Canary Grass (RCG), give ranchers all over the Western US a lot of trouble.
Walking, Reading, Interpreting and Understanding the Land: Becoming a Land Doctor
Sometime in the late 1970s and early in my natural resources career, I secured a copy of Aldo Leopold’s Round River, a collection of essays edited by his son, Luna Leopold
An Uplifting Guide to Winning the Climate War: Cheaper, Faster, Better
Climate change is deadly serious business. But who knew fighting it could not only save the planet in the short timeframe we have but also be deeply fulfilling?
Out on the Ranch: Spring 2024
There is a lot of information that goes into our adaptive grazing plan here at TomKat Ranch. We have production/grazing data which tells us historically
Dung Beetle Populations at TomKat Ranch 2022 & 2023
We sampled for dung beetles in the spring and summer of 2022 and 2023 across 3 fields at TomKat Ranch:
