ranching
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Economic woes threaten the ranching lifestyle Another article about how the custom and culture of the ranching lifestyle is under threat but this one explains what the real threat is. Not so much environmentalists or government regulation but the economy and low beef prices combined with high beef processing prices are changing the economy for…
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They even resent wildlife guzzlers– “Members of the [Nevada] state Board of Agriculture argue that as their numbers increase, guzzlers are altering the landscape and taking precious resources, whether water or forage, from ranchers. They want to stop the Nevada Department of Wildlife from constructing any new guzzlers and are exploring possible legal challenges. Some…
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New path essentially creates a new road near Bear Lake Rancher admits that they departed from the approved route, which had an old fenceline already cut, because they didn’t want to go through the Forest Service process of getting it changed. “It’s just completely ridiculous, the process they have,” Wamsley says. The new route cuts…
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These self-starting manure fires are apparently all too common Southern California when it gets hot- Well . . . another negative side effect of ranching! Oh, and the location of the ranch where the fire began was kept a secret. Story in the LA Times.
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Famous country and western singer Merle Haggard is no friend of his local cattle ranchers- “The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There’s certain times of day that the…
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George Wuerthner asks: Is Ranching Sustainable ? (As featured on Red State Rebels) In case you didn’t guess; it’s a rhetorical question. The article also appears in Western Watersheds Project’s Fall ’08 Watersheds Messenger be