Smokey The Steer: The Surprising Role of Cattle in Community Wildfire Management

Keith Manders clearly remembers the night that wildfires raged close to his home. “My wife looked out the window at four a.m. and saw flames coming down the mountain,” he recalls quietly. “You can imagine how we felt.” Fortunately for the rancher from Summerland, B.C., their house was spared, as was most of the crown land that Keith uses seasonally to graze his cattle. The experience reinforced what he and other local ranchers had known for years—that cattle can be effective tools to mitigate wildfire behaviour...

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