Tag: ranch
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Protecting the Next Generations Right to Ranch
Rancher Terry Punt sat at the kitchen table talking about the ranch his wife’s family has been operating for the past 140 years. He talked about how they had carved out a living over many generations through hard work and ingenuity. They currently run a Hereford/ Angus cross commercial cow-calf herd and also, a birth…
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Abundant clean water: the west’s most valuable resource
Keeping the water flowing, a rancher’s fight to limit oil and gas development As hydraulic fracturing threatens aquifers, it puts ranching and other industries at risk in arid western Colorado. “Without drinkable water you cannot sustain life…but in this country, people are just totally unaware or totally uninterested by that,” Don Lumbardy said. “Look at…
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How an Oil Boom Takes on a Life of Its Own
“My name is Pat Wilson. I’m a 67 year old cattle rancher who’s had a somewhat checkered career. I grew up on the family cattle ranch by Bainville, Montana and worked at that through high school. When I went to college I came back every summer and worked on the ranch. Then I went…
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Feeling Helpless Against Oil and Gas Companies
“My name is Carol Nash, and we live here in Bridger. We raise cattle and sheep on our place. We weren’t involved at all until the news came out in the newspaper that they were planning on developing a gas well down here. Down near Belfry. It was a big learning process, because we knew…