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Results for keyword: ranching

Saying good-bye to the ranch

Four families cooperate on conservation easements in order to save a huge ranch in Colorado from development.

by Kerry Brophy Lloyd, Mar 14, 2012
Farmland conservation program may be plowed under

The Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to idle highly erodible cropland, is facing budget cuts and other challenges.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Sep 20, 2011
When some ranchers use poison -- just like the old days

Some ranchers in western Kansas are using a deadly biocide called Rozol to kill endangered species like the black-footed ferret.

by Ted Williams, Jan 21, 2010
The meat of the matter

In Righteous Porkchop, Nicolette Hahn Niman takes on factory farming but gives ranching a pass.

by Andrea Appleton, Aug 03, 2009
Coffee with the ladies

Rancher Mary Flitner visits with some female bovine friends before going off to have coffee with the human ladies of Shell, Wyo.

by Mary Flitner, May 05, 2008
Toxic bison

Dave Skinner wants Yellowstone to get a handle on its “toxic bison” before they infect more elk with brucellosis, which can then get passed on to cattle.

by Dave Skinner, Mar 03, 2008
Ranching still has a place on our public lands

Mary Flitner believes public-land ranchers and Forest Service employees can – and should – get along with each other.

by Mary Flitner, Dec 24, 2007
Looking forward, looking back

William Kittredge brings together new and selected essays about life in the West in The Next Rodeo.

by Claire Dederer, Oct 29, 2007
Living precariously with wolves and cattle

Bryce Andrews kills a wolf in order to save his cattle – and the lives of other wolves.

by Bryce Andrews, Aug 06, 2007
The noisy democracy of the West

The revised edition of Peter Decker’s Old Fences, New Neighbors examines the changes that population growth has brought to remote Ouray County in western Colorado

by Steve Weinberg, Jun 12, 2006