The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting proposals for private landowners to graze cattle on parts of Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge, beginning in May of 2023. The selected landowner will enter into a Cooperative Agricultural Agreement to conduct grazing on specified units of the Refuge. This conservation grazing opportunity has the potential to last through August of 2025. Cattle will be rotated at specific intervals through multiple different pastures within the Refuge. More than 1,600 of the Refuge’s 23,000 acres will be grazed in 2023. The objective of grazing on the Refuge is to manage its grassland and wetland habitats and improve conditions for migratory birds and other ground-nesting birds. Rotational grazing is used in conjunction with prescribed fire and other management activities to mimic the historical disturbances that the tallgrass prairie of western Minnesota evolved with.
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