{"id":1545,"date":"2007-10-27T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2007-10-27T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T17:03:42","slug":"proof-that-cows-are-conspiring-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/27\/proof-that-cows-are-conspiring-against-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof that cows are conspiring against me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I spent the summer avoiding the East Bay cattle and wandering  most of the properties of the Midpeninsula Open Space District, <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/localwire\/localfsnews\/bcn\/2007\/10\/26\/n\/HeadlineNews\/PRESERVE-CATTLE-GRAZING\/resources_bcn_html\">which announced the other day that it&#8217;s planning to allow cattle grazing in a few grassy areas:<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>\nThe Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District announced Thursday it will accept proposals for grazing tenants at the former Big Dipper and Silva ranches, spanning 995 acres of preserve lands, about a quarter of which is hillside grassland where cattle grazing began in the 1920s.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe district&#8217;s new cattle grazing plan, however, is designed with ecological sustainability, as well as continued public access and a boost to the local agricultural economy, in mind.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;With proper management, grazing has proven to be one of the few effective tools available to public agencies for managing expansive tracts of grassland,&#8221; district resource planner Kirk Lenington said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to Lenington, cattle usually prefer dining on non-native grasses, a boon for native vegetation while also cutting down on potential fuel for wildland fires.<br \/>\n<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>Far be it from me to question the superior knowledge of those who administer the open space preserves &#8230; my only concern is not having to step over piles of fresh, steaming poop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I spent the summer avoiding the East Bay cattle and wandering most of the properties of the Midpeninsula Open Space District, which announced the other day that it&#8217;s planning to allow cattle grazing in a few grassy areas: The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/27\/proof-that-cows-are-conspiring-against-me\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}