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	Ranching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ranching is "Jake Overbey" the raising of cattle or sheep on rangeland, although one might also speak of ranching with regard to less common livestock such as elk, bison or emu.
		Ranching became limited to lands of little use for arable farming.
		Ranching forms part of the iconography of the Western in motion pictures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ranching (392 words)

	Ranching: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For ranch, see ranch (Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)) disambiguation.
		Ranching forms part of the iconography (The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject) of the Western (A film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development) in motion pictures.
		King Ranch (additional info and facts about King Ranch) - one of the largest ranches in the world, located in south Texas (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/ranching.htm (265 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: RANCHING
		Ranching as such dates from the 1730s, when herds were loosed along the San Antonio River to feed missionaries, soldiers, and civilians in the San Antonio and Goliad areas.
		By 1860, Texas cattle ranching was shifting from Southeast and South Texas to the north central frontier.
		A modern ranch is a highly developed unit with miles of fencing, water supplies accessible to grazing land, permanent corrals, and loading chutes.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/azr2.html (3191 words)

	Ranching - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ranching is the raising of cattle or sheep on rangeland, although one might also speak of ranching with regard to less common livestock such as elk, bison or emu.
		Barbed wire, invented in 1869, gradually made inroads in fencing off privately-owned land, especially for homesteads, and ranching became limited to lands of little use for arable farming.
		Ranching forms part of the iconography of Western Film.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Ranching (232 words)

	Learn more about Ranching in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Historically, there was a period on the Frontier after the removal of the buffalo and the Native Americans and before the coming of the homesteaders when ranching was the dominant activity.
		Barbed wire, invented in 1869, was gradually employed to fence off privately-owned land especially by homesteaders and ranching became limited to lands of little use for farming.
		Ranching is part of the iconography of Western Film.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /r/ra/ranching.html (267 words)

	Tejon Ranch
		The configuration of the Christian cross and the Muslim crescent is traced back to Old Spain around 997 A.D. A Spanish ranching family brought the brand to Mexico and their descendants carried the brand to the Tejon Ranch.
		Ranching is much like it was in the 1880s, with cattle and cowboys roaming the vast ranges.
		Matt Echeverria, former livestock manager and interim president for Tejon Ranch, runs cattle on a 55,000-acre lease on the northlands portion of the ranch, while Centennial Livestock leases 195,000 acres in ranchlands, southlands and valley lands areas to the south.
	www.tejonranch.com /ranchfarm/ranching.asp (289 words)

	Western Horseman: Ranching
		Ranch manager Bob Moorhouse and his trusted wagonboss, James Gholson, are seated at the far end of the dining hall, sipping their first cups of coffee and conversing in low tones.
		Cattle have always been on the outfit,and oil was found there, as well, but the ranch is best known for its good horses.
		The ranch's long, colorful history began with Dan Waggoner, back in the days before statehood, when Texas was a republic.
	westernhorseman.com /ranching/index.shtml (290 words)

	Waste of the West: Chapter 11 - Justification/Myths of Public Lands Ranching
		For decades, the ranching establishment has been imprinting in the American psyche the message that the ranchman is "the keeper of the Western flame," that "the living legend of the cowboy" (public lands rancher) must be preserved or the last vestige of the Old West will die.
		Ranching is the county's greatest environmental detriment, and an overall economic detriment.
		Ranching there has caused drastic reductions in game and fish, the elimination of many natural water sources, erosion of topsoil and loss of hundreds of acres of valuable bottomland, extensive public and private property damage, decreased recreational income, extensive flood damage to small communities and the county seat, and more.
	www.wasteofthewest.com /Chapter11.html (14401 words)

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		The heart of the Ranching Heritage Center is a 14 acre site where over 30 historic ranch structures have been relocated and restored to their original condition.
		Ranching is part of the history and romance of the American West.
		The buildings of the Center show the evolution of ranch architecture from single room log cabins and line camps to the stylish Queen Anne houses at the turn of the century.
	interoz.com /lubbock/ranch.htm (541 words)

	Waste of the West - Public Lands Ranching Today
		The notion that most public lands ranching is done by descendants of the original settlers is another of the numerous powerful myths associated with the grazing industry.
		Coming from people within the ranching establishment, few estimates are unbiased, nor do they take into account important and often obscure environmental factors; in truth, nearly all Western rangeland is being significantly damaged by livestock and/or their owners.
		Ranching's environmental impacts can be separated into 2 groups -- those caused by the livestock themselves and those caused by range development by livestock owners and their government and private assistants.
	www.wasteofthewest.com /Chapter2.html (4918 words)

	PMU Ranching Demonstrates Benefits of Self-Regulation
		PMU ranches, located in the Prairie Provinces of Canada and in North Dakota, are primarily family owned and operated farms that are independently contracted to provide the raw material needed to manufacture this prescription medication.
		Unfortunately, PMU ranching has failed to receive the level of recognition that it deserves, largely because it was little known before a group of animal activists, opposed to all uses of animals, campaigned against it.
		During its development, PMU ranching has become a model of self-regulation in the agricultural industry, using a system of extensive checks and balances that ensure ranchers strive for the highest standards of practice rather than simply abiding by baseline laws and regulations.
	www.nal.usda.gov /awic/newsletters/v10n1/10n1luba.htm (1679 words)

	Culture, Ecology, and Economics of Ranching West of the 100th Meridian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ranching in the vast expanses west of the 100th meridian is in a dynamic upheaval.
		Ranches are being recognized by organizations as diverse as The Nature Conservancy and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation as bastions of important wildlife and plant populations.
		Ranch raised in the San Joaquin Valley and educated in economics at the University of California-Davis, he has spent his life on the land and seen the changes in the rangelands of California.
	www.agnic.org /mtg/2000/ceerw.html (5487 words)

	RANCHING FOR WILDLIFE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The number of licenses on these ranches is determined through negotiations between the landowner and the Division.
		Most of these ranches manage their big game populations to increase the age and size of their male animals.
		Hunting on these ranches is a privilege and public hunters need to present a favorable impression of a good sportsman.
	wildlife.state.co.us /Ranching/Ranching.asp (658 words)

	Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching - Chapter 8 Social / Cultural Issues
		Ranching is the basis of a social system that is in many ways deleterious.
		Ranching's influence on the rural West's social/cultural fabric is, of course, not all negative.
		Perhaps ranching's most harmful social/cultural impact is its perpetuation of machismo and all it entails -- might is right, man over Nature and woman, egocentrism, an attitude that eating huge amounts of beef is patriotic and manly, brutality towards animals, and a generally wasteful, over-exploitive attitude.
	www.wasteofthewest.com /Chapter8.html (8116 words)

	Waste of the West: Chapter 12 - Alernatives
		Exotic game ranching also is increasingly popular on private land, especially in Texas, where some 200 ranches use exotic species as a major source of income or to augment livestock operations.
		Overgrazing and ranching overdevelopment was evident on most of the buffalo ranches I have visited, whereas range condition appeared good to excellent at Custer State Park (South Dakota), and Wind Cave, Badlands, and Yellowstone National Parks, where buffalo are semi-wild.
		For example, pertaining to the Audubon Research Ranch, where 20 livestock- free years has increased the proportion of groundcover from 20% to 80% and increased wildlife tremendously, Director Dr. Mark Stromberg says he believes Savory does not understand that heavy exploitation is not necessarily a part of all environments (Johnson 1987).
	www.wasteofthewest.com /chapter12/Chapter12.html (14513 words)

	The Taxpayer's Guide to Welfare Ranching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ranching industry could not survive without the vast array of tax benefits and subsidies—hundreds of millions of dollars per year—that result from its disproportionate influence.
		Many ranches today are owned by government entities, multinational corporations, real estate developers, non-profit organizations like the Nature Conservancy, and a host of wealthy individuals who take advantage of lucrative ranching subsidies and tax benefits.
		Against this background of political support for ranching, the numerous tax breaks and subsidies for the ranching industry in the Southwest are not surprising.
	www.biologicaldiversity.org /swcbd/Programs/grazing/taxguide.html (6663 words)

	Sustainable Rangeland Ranching: A Life-time Cattleman's Perspective
		The method of diversification that improves net ranch income with the least amount of capital outlay and financial risk is contracting with government or a private organization to manage rangeland for the purpose of ecosystem preservation and environmental enhancement.
		Instability and low profitability in ranching has forced ranchers to subdivide and sell their grazing lands in an attempt to optimize financial returns from ranching investments, recoup financial losses, pay off debt, or just to have enough income to live on after retirement.
		The distinctive characteristic of sustainable rangeland ranching is the set of processes the rancher must use to solve problems and maintain an acceptable balance between the economic, ecological, and social aspects of his operation.
	www.nativehabitat.org /perspective.html (8926 words)

	Ranching - Koch Industries, Inc.
		The utilization of Market Based Management® - including encouraging ranch employees to think and act like entrepreneurs - has significantly improved the ranches' operational performance and environmental stewardship, as evidenced by their productivity and the many environmental excellence awards they have received.
		The key to success for both the ranches and the environment is an effective land-management plan that takes advantage of the herd's breeding and grazing cycles.
		Beaverhead Ranch in Montana became the first ranch ever certified by the national Wildlife Habitat Council for its wildlife management successes, including re-establishing habitat for the Westslope cutthroat trout, and increasing the number of elk and deer, and the diveristy of plants.
	www.kochind.com /industry/ranching.asp (291 words)

	CATTLE RANCHING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the end of the war in Texas, this was still the case, but over the next few decades other economic forces broke the dominance of cotton.
		After 1900, however, ranching began a comeback, both in Brazoria County and around the state.
		In the years immediately after the Civil War, cattle ranching allowed many residents in the county to overcome some of their economic problems.
	www.bchm.org /wrr/recov/p3.html (293 words)

	Economics 101: Ranching is a Losing Proposition
		The West in 2002 isn't defined by ranching it's scarred by it.
		The western feel of public lands that have long suffered the abuses of ranching is just another word for dewatered streams, endangered species, denuded watersheds and cow pies as far as the eye can see.
		The demise of ranching is hardly a death knell for rural communities, a panic button the Statesman pushed in its plea.
	www.westernwatersheds.org /watmess/watmess_2002/2002html_summer/article5.htm (679 words)

	Island Press - Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture, Ecology, and Economics - , Wendell C. Gilgert, Ed Marston
		The book begins with writings that bring to life the culture of ranching, including the fading reality of families living and working together on their land generation after generation.
		Livestock ranching in the West has been attacked from all sides - by environmentalists who see cattle as a scourge upon the land, by fiscal conservatives who consider the leasing of grazing rights to be a massive federal handout program, and by developers who covet intact ranches for subdivisions and shopping centers.
		Ranching West of the 100th Meridian makes a unique and impassioned contribution to the ongoing debate on the future of the New West.
	www.islandpress.org /books/detail.html?&SKU=1-55963-827-3 (350 words)

	Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching
		Through the years, the public lands grazing industry has been quietly receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, corrupting our political system, defiling the social fabric of the rural West, and, perhaps worst of all, devastating the Western environment -- all to produce a tiny fraction of US meat.
		Few of us are exposed to ranching other than through the usual fictional renderings of the romantic "Old West," as on TV and in Western literature.
		Nevertheless, this nostalgic, idealistic image we have all been reared with is a vast falsehood, a monumental myth preserved by baseless tradition, our own yearning for romanticism, and the ranching establishment's efforts to capitalize on our yearnings.
	www.wasteofthewest.com (1514 words)

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		The ranchers pastured their herd on the open highlands around the hill in summer and drove the cattle down the river to Old Fort district for winter where hay had been put up.
		John Brown brought a herd of cattle north from Rhein, Saskatchewan, in 1901 and squatted in an old abandoned ranch house at the hay meadows two miles north of Moss Lake near Fort Pelly.
		Admiral Dundas also tried ranching at Moss Lake but sold his squatter's rights to John Brown who was joined by his brother Ted.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /cree/pioneer/agri/ranch.htm (1161 words)

	Ranching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cavazos family has long been associated with the famous King Ranch as it built its empire in South Texas and ultimately the world of ranching.
		His presentation is Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the Texas-Mexico Ranching Frontier.
		Saturday in the John E. Conner Museum at TAMUK Sally Kleberg, great granddaughter of Alice and Robert Kleberg, remembers her childhood days when the family would join with the kineños for holiday celebrations in her presentation based on her book, Kineño Christmas.
	www.tamuk.edu /southtexan/archives/2004/2-17-04/Ranching.htm (276 words)

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