By midsummer last year, many streams were just a series of stagnant pools. When livestock crowded the streambanks for water, state and local officials issued stern warnings again and again.

No range management textbook is complete without a cautionary photo of bloated livestock that got into a patch of something or other that they oughtn’t to have. Native rangelands host a range of picturesque killers from larkspur to lupine to locoweed. Let stockgrowers beware!

Successful beef producers maximize available pasture. Planting annual forages is a time-tested way to increase yield per acre for a grazing herd of cattle.