Rancho Potrero Prescribed Grazing Project (Request for Proposal/Qualifications)

Description: Provide qualified contractors to design and implement a managed grazing program on an approx 50-acre section the purpose of the program is to use prescribed livestock grazing as a restoration tool: first to remove accumulated annual-grass thatch, and then, over the successive season(s), to suppress non-native annual grasses and shift the competitive balance in favor of native perennial bunchgrasses. This is a habitat-restoration grazing project, not a forage or vegetation-management-for-hire arrangement. The agency seeks a contractor whose grazing operation is oriented toward ecological outcomes and who can demonstrate direct experience applying managed grazing for conservation or habitat-restoration purposes. The successful proposer will be expected to bring both livestock-management expertise and an understanding of california grassland ecology to the project.