Building Wildfire Resilience - Reducing Risk with Rx Grazing

2025 Rustici Rangeland Science Symposium

Reducing Wildfire Risk with Prescribed Grazing

sheep in yellow starthistle - Dan Macon

Dan Macon presented state-of-the-art strategies for reducing wildfire risk on forests and rangelands. He detailed the impact of grazing on wildfire fuels, the co-benefits and tradeoffs of prescribed and targeted grazing, and the considerations necessary to use livestock as fire mitigation tool. 

Download a PDF of the full presentation here

Download UC Rangelands & UCCE prescribed grazing and wildfire brief