2009 Grazing Season

Winter grazing projects are underway. LSLM is offering shared funding for Grazing Service to Homeowners and Neighborhood Associations.  Additionally, LSLM offers Fire Watch Service and Red Flag Service in most CA locations.

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For a list of free community based services,

please visit the Community section of our site.

Most Recent Additions to website:

Trends in Ecological Fuel Management (FireSafeCouncil)

CA Wool Growers Annual Adventure

Post-Modern Environmentality

Appropriating Environmentalism
Fire Mitigation / Grazing Primer
Grazing & Media Archive

Living Systems has distinguished itself for its innovative approach to land management (Trained Herds) and through a commitment to community and environment.  We are engaged in business that is environmentally and socially responsible, and that approaches land management holistically.  Our work in the area of fire mitigation focuses on ecological fuel management in Urban/Wildland Intermix areas.  In addition, we facilitate habitat restoration in riparian and other biologically sensitive areas and vegetation management of noxious and invasive weed species, including yellow star thistle, cape ivy, poison hemlock, French and Scotch Broom.

Goats and grazing animals have been used for countless years as land management tools and are a popular alternative to the conventions of mowing, disking, and burning.  Managed Grazing takes into account multiple levels of ecology and environment including: vegetation types, soil types, watershed functions, plant recovery mechanisms, nutrient flow and energy cycling.  All can be managed, monitored and improved with proper management procedures.

                    “California Indians practiced resource management at four levels of biological organization:

the organism, the population, the plant community, and the landscape.  They used resource management techniques

at each of these levels, or scales, to promote the persistence of individual plants,  plant populations, animal populations,

plant associations, and habitat relationships in many different vegetation types in California.” 

from M. Kat Anderson's Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge

and the Management of California's Natural Resources

Management Standards

Onsite with LSLM

    " Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in,

where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

  - John Muir