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School Teaches Stockmanship with a Light Touch
By Hannah Nikonow, Intermountain West Joint Venture We don’t always give cattle the credit they deserve. They are quite trainable animals and there’s a school where people can learn how to implement practices that take advantage of the predictable behavior of cattle. The Nevada Stockmanship School is an annual event that teaches livestock and rangeland…
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Outcome-based Grazing at the Winecup-Gamble Ranch
Story and photos by Sarah Keller for the Intermountain West Joint Venture originally published in the Nevada Rancher magazine. On a sunny early summer day, James Rogers stood next to a projector screen in the Winecup-Gamble Ranch’s horse barn to present his objectives for the northeastern Nevada ranch. Rogers is the manager charged with overseeing Winecup-Gamble’s…
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Words from a Botany Intern in Sagebrush Country
Last summer, Britney Zell perhaps got more than she bargained for while interning for the Chicago Botanic Garden. This internship took her to Nevada’s sagebrush country to work on restoration projects where she experienced frozen hands and faces and pants slick with mud. “They just make for a little extra group bonding,” Zell said. Through…
