Scroll down for Glenn’s weekly story and updates from the ranch this week!

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This week on the ranch…

That’s Monday’s pack crew (except Glenn, who took this photo), at the shop after a day of packaging your orders to go out all over the U.S. Left to right: daughters Linnaea, Maddy, Annie, Melanie, and crew members Montana and Jed.

Pictured here are Scott, Montana and Jed, constructing what will eventually be the walls to the new freezer! It’s been a long time coming, but our packaging location will be moving to the ranch over in the Lemhi valley in the next couple of months. The current pack house and freezer in Salmon has been functional for a long time, but it just much too small. It will be nice to have a larger space for packaging materials, people to work, and a bigger freezer that can hold more inventory!

Montana snapped this photo over in the Lemhi Valley. Though there’s a mountain range dividing that place and the home ranch, the topography and landscape look very similar.

Josh captured this photo at the home ranch while walking through the herd. The beeves were content with him there, which is what we like to see. You can also see the thick winter coat on this yearling, which the beeves all develop to keep warm during the coldest months of the year. Spring is just around the corner.

Caitlin snapped this photo over at the lease ranch this afternoon after her and Jeremiah finished feeding. This is an exciting sight, an “A” tagged (meaning it was born here on Alderspring) steer born almost exactly a year ago. This is one of the calves from last spring, the first batch of late-calving mama cows we purchased. Since then our mama cow herd has grown expansively, and we’re looking forward to the next couple of months when they will have calves of their own.

Despite the days which bring us closer to spring, we received about two inches of snow on the ranch last night, and it kept falling until about 1 this afternoon. There are worse things, I imagine, than waking up to a blanket of white mid-way through March. The moisture is needed, you see, and it reminds us of the blessing it will bring come summer, when the range and our soils and grasses reap its bounty.

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Quote of the Week

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”
— Tim O’Reilly

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Dear Friends

Between snowstorms, I gazed up at the high ridge of our summer grazing range. Taylor Mountain was a snowmass of solid white. Even the trees that flanked the alpine tundra of the granite peak were so caked with impregnated snow and rime that the transition between below timberline and above was seamless.

I recalled how on that very peak I stood in a trench of sorts–a deeply carved furrow in the snow and ice of the summit ridge–in some places over my midsection. It was a highway, and the tracks in the base of the trench made it clear who made it.

Wolves.

They were scoping the Highline, looking, listening and sniffing for prey. And when they found it, the formidable pack would descend.

We live with them now, thankfully in peaceful coexistence. It’s an unlikely alliance, but it seems as though it’s working.

I’ll take you back a few years, dear reader, to how and why we came to peace with Canis Lupus in this piece.

Happy Trails,

Glenn

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And that’s it for this week!

Thanks again for partnering in what we do!

Glenn, Caryl, cowgirls and cowboys at Alderspring.

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