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Photo monitoring gains momentum on rangelands
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
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ISDA rangeland monitoring specialists Brooke Jacobson and Tyler
Hamilton discuss a cooperative program with the Bureau of Land
Management to help ranchers monitor their grazing allotments.
They spoke during the Idaho Range Livestock Symposium in Twin
Falls on April 20.
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