Droving sheep at sunset with storm – Powder River Basin – Wyoming. Photo credit: Flickr CC via Jeremy Buckingham MLC. Talk about an idyllic farm picture. Scatter some sheep across a green “veriditas” pasture under a few trees. Or watch a collie herd a flock of sheep across a mountain rangeland. This mammal is a [...]
Sheep “Flock in Owens Valley, 1941.”by Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984Photo: U.S. National Archives
Scottish farmers and landowners are being offered generous tree-planting grants and a government assurance that forestry cover will be expanded from 17% to 25% of the country by 2025. Yet despite the lures very few have been enticed to turn any of their land over to commercial conifers.
