A relentless heat wave is piling on the difficulties faced by ranchers and farmers who've endured up to two years of drought in the Western ... of drought killing off pastures where cattle graze ...

One innovation is called inter-seeding or overseeding — drilling and planting new seed varieties into existing pastures to boost ... funded by a western SARE grant, did further experiments ...

In recent years, wildfire has become an increasing disturbance of sagebrush ecosystems in the Western United States. While these lands evolved with fire, in recent years, fires have started ...