The past few days, the international news outlet The Guardian featured the research of local Siskiyou County rancher-naturalist William E. Simpson II in its online and print editions in the United Kingdom and the U.S.
As a former member of the Future Famers of America and rancher in the 1960’s, Simpson’s foundational understanding of the value of livestock grazing using cattle and sheep to help manage wildfire fuels has been augmented by his research with wild…




