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Recent Photos From the ranch…

Here they are, the free range sheep herd. Our sheep are the “Katahdin” brand, which naturally shed extra wool without the need to shear them (you’ll notice a few sheep are in the middle of shedding off their old coats). This year, we’ve mostly let the sheep range across the entire ranch with access to freely roam hundreds of acres of open pasture. They can then pick the best plants for their nutrient needs that day from a salad bar of about 80 different species. They seem happier (and healthier) this way. At the end of the day, we go out and herd them in to a small “fold” we have made for them out of electric fence near the safety of our house. It’s because we have coyotes that visit the ranch at night, and enclosing the sheep near our house with a great pyrenees nearby keeps them safe. The next morning we open the gate again and simply let them roam at will.

It’s the Alderspring “Blue Sage Rambler” bluegrass/folk band! When we’re not working on the ranch, we occasionally play music at local festivals and cookouts. This was the crew at a concert in the park last week.

Here’s the cow herd, freshly moved to a new break of grass. As we head into fall, our growing season is almost over. This means we move the herd (especially the yearling and 2-year old cattle) much more frequently in order to avoid overgrazing a pasture. If it isn’t overgrazed, it will still have time to grow back before fall and provide just one more graze for hungry beeves as we head into winter.

In the photo above are Annie, Jed, and Josh riding back from moving cows! There’s nothing quite as satisfying as being horseback at sunset enjoying the cool of the evening after a good day of work!

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I have a friend, Bruce, who is a beaverologist, and that means that his specialty is beavers. He was known as sort of the go-to beaver guru in the Intermountain West. People would call him about beaver troubles (“they’re damming my culvert!” or “they’re stealing all of my irrigation water!”), begging him to relocate them to somewhere in the vast “big open”—the wide wild places of the West, on US Forest Service or BLM lands. After all, in places like Custer and Lemhi County, where we live and work, public, or government land amounts to over 90% of our land base.

As you probably figured out, there’s no such thing as a “beaverologist.” After all, who would care that much for a double buck toothed flat-tailed rodent whose top speed is somewhere on the order of 6 miles an hour? Mr. Beav is among the lowest on the food-chain pole, and has the distinction to the top “dogs” such as wolf, coyote, mountain lion and bear of being considered a sort of cream puff to be relished…

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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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