“Come on cows!” More than a few dozen youth and adults – some campers and parents, some staff, some volunteers – formed a chorus of calls for the herd of Scottish Highland cattle to move, for the first time, from the pastures on south campus at Angelic Organics Association to the north campus we call Kinnikinnick Fields, 80-acres of remnant, and degraded, oak savannah. It will be the cows’ primary task to help restore this land.
Historically, this region was a vast oak savannah whose profound fertility was built up over many centuries in great...