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This week on the ranch…

Maddy took this photo of the herd, just after leaving camp – can you spot the white canvas teepees in the trees below?

Maddy took the above photo of Wesley during a siesta in the timber. Grazing in the timber makes for some of the most diverse forage the cattle can get, and it allows for a reprieve from the hot sun for horses and riders alike.

Glenn took this photo up on the range – there are nearly 400 head of beeves in this picture as the Alderspring herd goes higher and higher. Can you spot them?

Here are a few photos taken by Rachel, one of our summer range riders.

Here are a few photos taken by Rachel, one of our summer range riders.

Here are a few photos taken by Rachel, one of our summer range riders.

Here are a few photos taken by Rachel, one of our summer range riders.

Cat, a member of the crew this summer, took the above photo of Jed on the range in front of a beautiful backdrop.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

A few images taken by Melanie up on the range.

Meanwhile, back off the range, work continues at the home ranch as well as the place one mountain range over, in the Lemhi Valley. Scott, manager over there, shared these photos of some scenes recently. Inclement weather is common this time of year, and we get many storms that pass overhead both over there as well as at the home ranch. It’s nothing in comparison to the extremes up on the range, however, where the crew deals with variable conditions at much higher elevations.

A summer cloudburst nearly flooded the home ranch this week with a flash flood! It deposited about 2 feet of mud and debris in what we call the “goosenecks” area near the barn and our shop. Seventeen years ago, Caryl and Glenn intentionally designed this series of berms aimed at water velocity control that flashes off degraded BLM public rangelands adjacent to the ranch (not Alderspring’s grazing area). It worked, happily, and prevented tons of sediment from reaching the Chinook Salmon spawning gravels in the Pahsimeroi River.

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Quote of the Week

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

-George Bernard Shaw

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Dear Friends,

I saw April today.

She’s unchanging as the mountains she lives in. Sure, she drifts through the seasons from thick coats to thin and back again, but her fleshy easy keeping condition remains the same.

The only things that are permanently trending are her muzzle and motion. Muzzle: shading from charcoal to gray. Motion: careful in her trot, yet not lame. Not bucking anymore (she had done enough of that to fill 5 equine lifetimes, I think).

Her age? Timeless comes to mind, but reality dates her at around 34.

Last year, she jumped in the trailer, unhaltered and barefoot, as she knew it was getting loaded with other horses to ride the range, most less than a fifth of her age.

We gently led her back out, knowing that a 25 mile up and down rock cobble hike was no longer in the cards for her.

She’s deservedly retired. We don’t ship our retired ones to can out for dog food, or to be processed for European artisanal meat markets. They get rest (as long as pain doesn’t rear it’s ugly head–at which point we quietly put them down), and green pastures.

April has always been with us, through nearly all of our time ranching, a reminder that it’s not all about us, but as much about the animals and the legacy of the land that God graciously entrusted to us.

We’re grateful.

Here’s a story about that coal black mare I put to words several years back, and I’m glad I did.

Happy Trails.

Read the story on our blog by clicking below!

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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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