Cattle play an important role in wildfire management by grazing fuel on California rangelands. The benefits of cattle grazing have not been thoroughly explored, though. Fire behavior is characterized in this paper by flame length. Fire behavior models suggest that these regional fuel reductions lower flame lengths, and lead to more manageable wildfires.
Ratcliff, F., Rao, D. R., Barry, S. J., Dewees, S., Macaulay, L., Peterson, R., … & Forero, L. C. (2022). Cattle grazing reduces fuel and leads to more manageable fire behavior. California Agriculture, 76(2-3).
