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Melanie and her father, Glenn Elzinga, watch the herd as the sun sets in the Salmon-Challis National Forest. They’ll move the cows back to camp soon to keep them penned up for the night before another day of grazing the range tomorrow.

How an Idaho ranch family learned to live with wolves

Mar 07, 2022
Across the West, women are changing the ways land and livestock are managed. Ashley Ahearn saddled up for the Mountain West News Bureau to chronicle their big dreams – and daily challenges. This is the first story of a three-part series.
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 Adrienne Larrew and her pigs at Kiowa Creek Ranch outside Colorado Springs. The ranch is owned by the Audubon Society, which leases it to Corner Post Meats.

Ranching, and birding, amid Colorado’s suburban sprawl

Mar 07, 2022
Across the West, women are changing the ways land and livestock are managed. Ashley Ahearn saddled up for the Mountain West News Bureau to chronicle their big dreams – and daily challenges. This is the second story of a three-part series.
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Surplus Could Lower Beef Prices, Leave Nevada Ranchers Stewing

Aug 22, 2018

Nevada’s ranchers — and the rest of the nation’s cattle industry — face a beef glut and soft prices amid an uncertain export environment.

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Photographer Lucas Fogila Captures The Mining Boom in the American West

Mar 10, 2014

Photographer Lucas Foglia examines the uneasy coexistence between agriculture and mining in his latest book of photos, Frontcountry

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Federal Authorities Want To Protect Nevada's Sage Grouse

Oct 29, 2013

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to list the Bistate Sage Grouse as a threatened species. That could drastically change the way ranchers and energy companies can use land

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Praying For Rain: Ranchers And Farmers Face Another Dry Summer

Mar 27, 2013
Last summer was one of the worst on record for Nevada ranchers. High heat and dry conditions forced them to sell their stock and buy feed, cutting profit margins and convincing some that they'd be better off in some other line of work.
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One Million Acres of Nevada Land Sold to Florida Company

Dec 16, 2011

That sounds like a lot of land--and that's because it is. In fact, it's 12 percent of all privately held land in Nevada; It was sold last week to a Florida-based company that wants to increase mining and geothermal energy plants on its massive land holdings.

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