"People think ranching is so idyllic, like all we do is ride horses to check cows all day. They don't see this part. Maybe if they did, they'd appreciate their next meal a little more." "This part" ...
From atop my horse Cinco, a seemingly infinite landscape of high-desert scrub, arid sagebrush and sandy plains unfurls before me. Behind me, a herd of bison roam against a backdrop of snow-capped ...
In southeastern Colorado, a slew of green energy projects are being planned – some in partnership with landowners and some despite landowners. At the same time, the lesser prairie chicken has been ...
Cattle, cropland and crypto cash flow are all included.
Ranching West of the 100th Meridian is a book of essays that promotes the false idea that Westerners must choose between condos and cows in a landscape never meant for cattle grazing. Read more (HCN, ...
“We mimic nature. We work in sync with nature. We let nature heal itself.” These are not uncommon aims for ranchers and farmers concerned about the dire state of the environment, a growing community ...
On the side of a dirt road in Gunnison County, a herd of cattle is cooling off in the water of an irrigation ditch. Doug Washburn, range manager for Spann Ranches in southwestern Colorado, points at ...
The South Dakota State University Center of Excellence for Bison Studies in collaboration with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service recently published “Getting Started with Bison Ranching” as a ...
Nearly three years after environmental groups sued the National Park Service, the last dairies and cattle ranches in Point Reyes National Seashore have agreed to a roughly $30 million settlement that ...
On a late autumn day in the San Luis Valley, rancher Julie Sullivan strolled through her meadow past hundreds of piles of raked hay. Her foreman Hana Fancher and apprentice Morgan Atkinson followed, ...
After a decadeslong fight, the majority of ranching along the Point Reyes National Seashore will end by next year, thanks to a legal settlement involving environmentalists, ranchers, and the National ...