Regenerative ranching - a holistic approach to managing grazing lands - may enhance ranchers' adaptive capacity and socioeconomic well-being while also providing an opportunity to mitigate climate change, according to a new study from Oregon State University, co-authored by Susan Charnley of the U.S. Forest Service and Paige Stanley of the University of California, Berkeley. Regenerative ranching practices rebuild ecological processes, allowing ranchers to reduce reliance on products such as chemical herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers, which are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions.