The quiet war fought on Alderspring reached epic proportions this week. Because of the unusual amounts of summer moisture and June heat, it has been a perfect storm of weed invasion. Weed seeds that had long lay dormant in the seedbank germinated and emerged to manifest their presence in places …
Photo of the Day: The Old Barn
Alderspring is home to a historic barn that likely once provided haven to a milk cow for the original homesteaders. …
Moose Creek Moving Fiasco
July snowstorms are unusual. Cowboys Josh and Patchin rode through the white stuff for a day or two, and the top of 'ol Taylor Peak, the highest point on our summer grass range, was white with wet mashed potatoes. The beeves loved it. Soils yielded nicely to their feet, and the grass and forbs …
A Day on the Range
I'm horseback on my buckskin mare as I write this, settling our beeves on a new meadow. It is a grassy sky island in a sea of high altitude coniferous forest, and even in late July, the grass is green. In addition, the air is thick with the fragrance of pine and fir, and a slight drizzle makes the …
A Day in the High Meadows
I'm horseback on my buckskin mare as I write this, settling our beeves on a new meadow. It is a grassy sky island in a sea of high altitude coniferous forest, and even in late July, the grass is green. In addition, the air is thick with the fragrance of pine and fir, and a slight drizzle makes the …
Cowboy Collin
Cowboy Collin comes to us from Seattle. Culturally, the remote ranges of Idaho contrast a little with the highest espresso bar density in the nation. He's worked on Alderspring through the winter, but he traded the coastal rainforest of Puget Sound for the high desert in coming here. June was a …