Active grazing
Cattle in the treatment area
Managed animal movement applies grazing pressure where it supports the agreed objective.
Precision managed cattle grazing · Southern California
Grazing for wildfire resilience.
Wildfires are dangerous, expensive and difficult to mitigate across large landscapes.
We provide a scalable, site-led solution for broad-acre fuel mitigation, habitat management and regenerative landscape stewardship.
Targeted · Scalable · Site-led
Managed grazing, planned around your goals70–80%target reduction in grazeable fine fuels
The challenge
Wildfire risk at scale.
Wildfires routinely cross or spot over fuel breaks, particularly under wind-driven conditions. When treatments are limited to isolated strips and small areas, large stretches of continuous fuel remain between them.
The solution
Precision grazing.
We use cattle and adaptive grazing management to reduce grazeable fine fuels, shape strategic fuel breaks and support land-management goals. Treatment plans adapt to site priorities, seasons, access, water and sensitive resources.
A flexible tool for broad-acre fuel reduction, habitat management and regenerative stewardship.
Wildfires can cross fuel breaks, especially under severe conditions. WRS combines broad-acre fine-fuel reduction with strategic fuel breaks.
Wildfire moving through grass and brush
The solution
Precision grazing.
We match animal numbers, grazing intensity and timing to the site and the result you want. Temporary or virtual fencing can support flexible containment and movement.
01
Discover the landscape
We get on the same page about your landscape goals, then map priorities, access, water and sensitive resources together.
02
Set the treatment
Agree on seasonal timing, cattle numbers, paddock size, moves and target outcomes.
03
Manage the grazing
Adjust daily or weekly as conditions change. Monitor forage use, animal impact and site constraints.
04
Review the result
Document activity and assess agreed indicators with maps, photographs and repeat measurements.
Measurable results
Measured impact.
Grazing programs are tailored to vegetation objectives, site conditions and project goals. We define what success looks like together, then document the work.
70–80%
Target reduction in grazeable fine fuels.
Actual utilization depends on forage, season, terrain, animal class, duration and site constraints.
01Remaining fine fuels are trampled to disrupt continuity.
02Pre- and post-treatment observations support clear reporting.
03GPS mapping and repeat photography make treatment areas visible.
04Agreed indicators keep habitat and stewardship goals in view.
Standing forageGrazed stripWe collaborate
Service built around your goals.
Every property has different needs. We listen, communicate clearly and adapt grazing plans to solve the challenges that matter to you. The right treatment can combine fuel reduction with habitat, access and longer-term stewardship priorities.
Let's take a walk →We collaborate with you to achieve
Strategic fuel breaks
Broad-acre fine-fuel reduction
Defined residual dry matter targets
Effective management of challenging terrain
Reduced invasive vegetation pressure
Habitat creation and protection
Conservation plan integration
Measurable improvement in soil and watershed health
Mitigation banking coordination
Carbon program feasibility
Controlled grazing in action
See the plan at work.
Cattle are moved from one temporary electric or virtual fence paddock to another regularly. This level of control allows us to manage grazing behaviour and parameters to meet your objectives.
Technology
Virtual fencing with Halter.
Halter combines GPS-enabled collars with a mobile app to draw virtual boundaries, move cattle and review grazing activity. Where the site and grazing plan call for it, virtual fencing can give managers more flexibility in directing cattle.
Explore Halter ↗Halter is a third-party technology option. WRS assesses fit alongside site goals, terrain, water, animal care and operating needs.
Grazing tools
- Set virtual boundaries and adjust paddocks
- Move herds through a phone app
- Review grazing history and animal locations
On the ground
Field work, made visible.
Photos and maps help show where grazing happened and how treatment areas compare. Each project page can grow into a fuller case study as monitoring data and land-manager approval become available.
Planning example
Start with a map. Manage in the field.
A grazing plan can translate landscape priorities into paddocks, water access, moves and monitoring points. The plan is refined with site staff as access and conditions are confirmed.
- Map priority treatment areas
- Plan for water access and terrain constraints
- Track movements and observations
Landscape context
Work at landscape scale
Terrain, vegetation and access shape the treatment plan from the start.
Document the change
Compare the treated strip
Use repeat viewpoints and agreed indicators to describe what changed on site.
Fires & grazing
Fire stories, grounded in the field.
Explore how fire behavior, fuels and grazing intersect.
Henderson Fire · Fuel assessmentHenderson fire case study
Grass within a brush landscape
Grasses and other nonwoody plants account for an estimated 29–37% of modeled pre-fire surface-fuel weight. About 60–64% of that herbaceous mass lies outside mapped grassland—highlighting why grazing assessments should include grass-rich openings within scrub.
A preliminary screening study; the share cattle could remove requires field assessment.
Fire professional perspective
Where grazing fits in wildfire management
CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Marshall Turbeville describes seeing fires stop at grazed fence lines and says grazing was the difference.
Case studies & practitioners
Grazing in practice.
Explore examples from practitioners applying grazing to different landscape goals. The projects shown here use site-specific methods; results vary by place.
Regenerative grazing
Grasslands Regeneration Project
Photo-led field stories explore perennial grasses, plant succession and vegetation change on a Chihuahuan Desert ranch.
Explore field stories ↗Conservation ranching
Audubon’s Bobcat Ranch
A 6,800-acre working cattle ranch in California demonstrates conservation ranching across grassland, oak woodland, wetland and chaparral habitats.
Visit Bobcat Ranch ↗Wildfire & habitat
Graze Ojai
A community-supported grazing program serving fuel reduction, vegetation management and ecosystem enhancement in the Ojai Valley and Ventura River watershed.
Explore the program ↗Evidence & reading
Grounded in research.
Research helps set realistic expectations. Results vary with vegetation, grazing timing, intensity, weather and landscape context; grazing is one tool within a broader management program.
Cattle grazing reduces fuel and leads to more manageable fire behavior
California Agriculture · California rangeland research on fine fuels and fire behavior.
Targeted cattle grazing to alter fuels and reduce fire behavior metrics in shrub-grasslands
Peer-reviewed research evaluating targeted grazing in shrub-grassland fuels.
Quantifying large-scale impacts of cattle grazing on annual burn probability in Napa and Sonoma Counties, California
Ecology & Society · A California landscape-scale analysis.
Targeted grazing for wildfire fuel breaks
USDA Climate Hubs · A practical overview of fuel-break implementation and coordination.
These references support informed planning; they do not predict outcomes for a specific property. Site-specific monitoring remains essential.
From the field
Grazing in motion.
Check out Deon’s Instagram for grazing videos from Virginia, South Texas and Southern California.
Deon’s Instagram
Meet the builder
Deon de Villiers
Builder · Wildland Range Solutions
Deon has practiced adaptive grazing management since 2018, with experience in South Africa, Virginia, South Texas and Southern California. He brings hands-on livestock management and a site-specific approach to each grazing plan.
Next steps
Let’s start with your challenges.
We work with you to define goals and implement solutions to achieve them.