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Kane and Two Mile Ranches Landscape

Situated amid three national monuments and sharing a 110 mile boundary with Grand Canyon National Park, the public lands grazing allotments held by the Kane and Two Mile Ranches include nearly 850,000 acres of high, forested plateaus cut by deep canyons, rolling grasslands, and slickrock badlands. Elevation ranges from less than 3,000 feet in the depths of the canyons to more than 9,000 feet on the forested top of the Kaibab Plateau. Over the past century, landscape-level impacts on forests, grasslands, and rivers such as livestock overgrazing, water development, logging, and fire suppression have created a patchwork of conditions across the ranches, with some areas retaining their intact natural character, others existing in a highly degraded state where large and unnaturally severe wildfires burn and invasive non-native species have taken hold, and many others existing at a precarious tipping point between intact and degraded states.  In partnership with the land management agencies, we are working to manage our livestock in the most ecologically responsible fashion possible.  We have also initiated an ambitious program of conservation science-based research, monitoring, and on-the-ground restoration efforts across the ranches in an effort to find solutions to critical environmental challenges facing the ranch landscape, and the surrounding varied landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.

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