When holistic management is too land-focused, the needs of the people on the land gets lost.
Essays
Posted inFebruary 22, 2016: Fractured
The time of painful impossibilities
A reading by U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.
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Can we make sense of the Malheur mess?
A writer finds camaraderie and despair inside the Oregon standoff.
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Ranch Diaries: Should we name the animals we raise to eat?
The point of our company is good food but it’s bittersweet to see our calves go.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2016: Sagebrush Insurgency
Cursing the mountain
An adventurer asks whether his failures in the alpine zone are caused by blasphemy.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2016: Sagebrush Insurgency
In ‘Gold Fame Citrus,’ the nascent genre of cli-fi looks to California
A new climate change novel predicts a dystopian West of sand and refugees.
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Rants from the Hill: Reno is a desert city with a river heart
The Ranter recalls playing an unexpected concert on the banks of the Truckee River.
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Ranch Diaries: How to apply holistic livestock management to life goals
Abiding by shared values helps our quality of life.
Posted inJanuary 25, 2016: The Forever War
The tree in the river
A writer ponders a remnant of past disaster.
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Ranch Diaries: The anti-ranching, misinformed discourse around Malheur
The federal grazing system doesn’t support good management.
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Rants from the Hill: A Christmas tree grows in the Nevada desert
The pinyon offers an alternative to artificial or commercially farmed trees.
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Ranch Diaries: Year in review at Triangle P
Coconut the elk, Clem the colt and big dreams for next year.
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5 things I learned about managing my money from covering the oil bust
A reporter relays tips from her time in the field.
Posted inDecember 21, 2015: Secrets of the Deep
The mysteries of the everyday
A writer and her family court the unknown.
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Ranch Diaries: Building human connections from a remote ranch
Passing on knowledge is crucial to our way of life.
Posted inDecember 7, 2015: Good Neighbors
Playing the Alaska card
A native of the state explains the short-lived social power the state gives.
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Rants from the Hill: As winter looms, a final foray to close out the season
My annual transect of our neighborhood mountain takes a turn for the perilous.
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Ranch Diaries: Getting injured on the job
I went through a lot of Ibuprofen and some serious self-doubt; then I sucked it up and got back on my horse.
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
The life of a once-lost dog
Aging takes its toll on creatures both human and canine.
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Ranch Diaries: What life’s like as a female rancher
Some ranchers still say women ruin horses and a rancher and his wife can be paid at two-for-the-price-of-one.