Carrus Land Systems, LLC, is an organization of experienced land management professionals who share a common vision for improving ecological outcomes on a large scale. CARRUS couples efficient capital markets with ecologically sustainable, socially responsible, and profitable large scale land management. Our market-based approach to sustainable stewardship is born of experience and system understanding. The following guiding principles serve as the filter through which we evaluate opportunities and make decisions.

At Land EKG™, our mission is to: Continually seek, develop, or supply the most useful & practical landscape monitoring and management innovations available, with the purpose to improve the prosperity of agriculture, rural communities, and natural resources of our nation and world.

Land EKG - Canada - providing land monitoring, grazing management and consulting services for private and public land stewards.

BEHAVE is a research and outreach program that explores the principles of animal behavior. Our primary focus is on diet and habitat selection of livestock. Understanding how animals learn will enable us to train animals to fit our landscapes rather than having to modify our landscapes to fit our animals. Using grazing as a tool will reduce our use of expensive machinery, fossil fuels and toxic herbicides. By understanding how animals learn we can use their natural behaviors to manage weeds, enhance biodiversity, improve feeding systems, minimize use of riparian areas and much more.

Founded 30 years ago in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets. 

An internationally recognized research institute that provides evidence-based policy options to resolve land-use issues, support dialogue and identify new approaches to secure Alberta’s prosperity through transformational land management.

The Conservation Finance Network at Island Press deliversconservation finance tools and training to people working to protect, restore, and steward natural areas. Our goal is to help people accelerate the pace of land and resource conservation through the use of innovative funding and financing strategies. To this end, we are building a community of practice that brings together thought leaders, practitioners, and partner organizations. This network will advance the field of conservation finance by fostering new ideas and ensuring that those ideas are implemented in policy and practice.

The Oldman Watershed Council, or OWC, is a community-based, not-for-profit that works with everyone to find practical solutions to environmental challenges that impact us all. People depend on a healthy environment but we also need a healthy economy and we have social and cultural needs too. Everything is connected so we must work together to make trade-offs, solve problems, plan for the future and have the quality of life we want right now. It takes time and effort to work collaboratively but OWC is building a new way of managing our water and land where we all do our part, work together and think long term. We believe it's worth the investment.

We’re the people writing for journals, and making presentations at agriculture conferences. You’ve seen our names on your seminar lists, read our blogs and websites, and maybe even attended field days at our farms and ranches. In 2012, a group of us sat down at the Northeast Pasture Consortium and talked about what our travels and reading have told us: that while you read many of the available magazines and newsletters and attend lots of conferences, you need something more. So we decided to put together an online publication that would give you access to the latest research and farmer/rancher experience written in plain English and focused on turning ideas into farm and ranch ready practices.

Our goal is to help farmers and ranchers be more profitable by helping them use their livestock's natural behavior as an inexpensive alternative for mangaging weeds and other vegetation. We choose field projects each year that will advance our knowledge of what livestock, and in particular cows can eat, and to find easy, profitable ways for producers and land managers to accomplish their goals. We share this information on this web site, with our blog thetaoofcow.com, and in videos and books.