Grazing, Browsing and Conservation Partnerships: Overview

October 2010

Polk County Conservation natural resource specialist Loren Lown hopes that goats and cattle grazing in the Chichaqua Bottoms Wildlife Area will rejuvenate habitat and control invasive species. Also hear from Iowa farmers, who own the goats and cattle, about the benefits they get from this Leopold Center ecology project. Filmed August 2010.

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