By Graham Marema
Just before sunrise, Nine Quarter Circle Ranch wakes up. The valley is still blue with fog, and wranglers don cowboy hats and vests, shimmying their feet into worn boots.
By Tesia Lin
In 2014, John Coffman arrived in Wyoming as The Nature Conservancy’s new steward for the Red Canyon Ranch and quickly encountered an unforgettable lesson.
By Samuel Western
I’m in upper eastern Montana, a land of undulating drainages, heading north on Highway 87.
By Birch Malotky
When I get Dallas May on the phone for the first time and ask how he’s doing, he immediately tells me, “We were getting ready to start selling cattle and a week later the rains started.
For many westerners, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is the exemplar invasive weed, well known for thriving in sagebrush landscapes where it crowds out native plants, fuels a devastating fire regime, and threatens wildlife and livestock grazing.
Christy Bell rifled through a series of shallow drawers lining the walls of a dark, windowless lab.
Invasive species are not a new phenomenon, but over the past few decades the West has seen an explosion of all types in all ecosystems.
In any court case, there are two sides. But in a wood-paneled courtroom at the Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Butte, Montana, differences between the two sides headed to court were not immediately apparent.
I met Peter John Camino in the lobby of the Johnson County Public Library in Buffalo, Wyoming.
“If we disconnected that 14-inch pipe and pointed it upward, the water would blast nearly 600 feet into the air,” says Les Hook
From verdant, low-elevation spreads in Wyoming’s northeast corner to high, dry western basins, private lands across the state are diverse.
In 2002, when Robert Hicks, owner of the Buffalo Bulletin newspaper in Buffalo, Wyoming, learned that the Johnson County commissioners canceled a conservation easement
In late June of 2012, the Fontenelle fire ripped across the Wyoming Range, torching forests and shrublands.
On his ranch in Montana’s Ruby Valley, Rick Sandru can load hay and enjoy views of the snowcapped Tobacco Root Mountains as geese honk overhead.
As early as 2006, employees of the environmental group Western Watersheds Project allegedly trespassed onto Wyoming ranches to gather water samples.
“For somehow, against probability, some sort of indigenous, recognizable culture has been growing on Western ranches and in Western towns
From a distance, Kent Price looks like any other young rancher working cattle.
Rody Twyman follows a couple thousand bleating sheep on a dirt path.
Among the writings of forester and conservationist Aldo Leopold
Chris Bastian grew up working on his grandparents’ ranches in southeastern Wyoming every summer and thought he’d spend his life as a rancher.
