"People think ranching is so idyllic, like all we do is ride horses to check cows all day. They don't see this part. Maybe if they did, they'd appreciate their next meal a little more." "This part" ...

From atop my horse Cinco, a seemingly infinite landscape of high-desert scrub, arid sagebrush and sandy plains unfurls before me. Behind me, a herd of bison roam against a backdrop of snow-capped ...

After a decadeslong fight, the majority of ranching along the Point Reyes National Seashore will end by next year, thanks to a legal settlement involving environmentalists, ranchers, and the National ...

We now have the Administration giving 1.4 million acres of our National Forest in Alaska to facilitate the destruction of the ...

“We mimic nature. We work in sync with nature. We let nature heal itself.” These are not uncommon aims for ranchers and farmers concerned about the dire state of the environment, a growing community ...

On the side of a dirt road in Gunnison County, a herd of cattle is cooling off in the water of an irrigation ditch. Doug Washburn, range manager for Spann Ranches in southwestern Colorado, points at ...

The South Dakota State University Center of Excellence for Bison Studies in collaboration with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service recently published “Getting Started with Bison Ranching” as a ...

On a late autumn day in the San Luis Valley, rancher Julie Sullivan strolled through her meadow past hundreds of piles of raked hay. Her foreman Hana Fancher and apprentice Morgan Atkinson followed, ...

Sustainability is not a novel thing. Some studies have shown that most of the existing hunter-gatherers in the world (such as Pigmies in Congo, Agta Philippines and Ache in Paraguay) employ management ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. One of the things I enjoy doing in my writing about energy is ...