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The coast ranges provide superlative grazing during the mild wet California winter.
Mount Diablo Ranch, Mount Diablo SP, CA (1981).
The long dry California summer eventually requires that supplementary feed be brought in for livestock.
Mount Diablo Ranch, Mount Diablo SP, CA (1981).
Classic cowboy country, oak savannas and grasslands ring the Great Valley.
highway 20 west of Williams, CA (1991).
Cattle have seriously diminished the habitat value of this natural pond by trampling the shoreline area.
Sindicich Lagoons, Briones RP, near Orinda, CA (88).
In many parts of the west cattle are still driven seasonally between winter and summer ranges at different elevations.
near Glennville, Kern County, CA (1984).
The soft adobe soils of the coast ranges are easily shaped into terraced cattle trails during the moist winter months.
Las Trampas RP, near San Ramon, CA (1990).
Though the city of Los Angeles bought most of the land, and water rights, in Owens Valley, a few areas of irrigated pasture and hayfields still exist.
Alta Vista, Round Valley, near Bishop, CA (1982).
Huge feedlots, for fattening beef cattle just before slaughter, pose significant local environmental problems.
near Denver, CO (1978).