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PHOTO PROVIDED I Listen to the Sky by Andrea Durfee. While taking in one of Andrea Durfee’s vibrant watercolor or acrylic paintings that seamlessly, almost imperceptibly, blend human forms with landscapes, it’s hard to believe she just wings it. No preliminary sketches. No color studies. “If I have the impulse, then I ll sit down and just sketch on the actual canvas or the paper and go from there,” Durfee says. “The first thing that s laid out is the figure, and then I build the landscape around it. So it s very much paying attention to the body positioning, and what emotion that is communicating.”
Carbon sequestration While some science suggests that regenerative ranching can result in climate change mitigation through carbon drawdown into soils, that is not usually the driving factor behind ranchers’ decision to adopt the practice, said the study’s lead author, Hannah Gosnell, an OSU geographer who studies the human dimensions of climate change.
Understanding what motivates ranchers to adopt carbon-friendly practices will play an important role in efforts to expand the use of managed grazing systems to reduce climate change impacts, said Gosnell, a professor in Oregon State’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.
“What we found is that ranchers manage regeneratively for all these other benefits, and if there’s some measureable soil carbon sequestration and it contributes to climate change mitigation, then that’s icing on the cake,” she said.
A new, peer-reviewed paper on White Oak Pastures' practices advances our understanding of the climate impact of beef and the power of regenerative grazing to store carbon in the soil.