Rest and Recovery Story and Photos by Jen Barger “Land restoration does not happen overnight,” Sammi Fontenot tells me as we walk near the Highland cattle she and her family raise. “Slowly but surely, we’re working in the
Backcountry Ranch Lessons By Levi Armichardy I wake to the abrasive bray of the donkey in the corral outside my open window. All the windows in this small bunkhouse are open, to let in the cool air of
At the Alpaca Farm Story and Photos by Lorie Palmer A few years ago, when my husband and I were out for a drive from Grangeville, we ambled down rural Talmaks Road off U.S. Highway 95 just west
A Party with Heart Story and Photos by Amy Story The October sky was clear blue on No Cow Day as I wound my way up Cartwright Road through the Boise foothills toward Ourada Ranch, southwest of the
Grazing the Sheep By Richard W. Etulain The following excerpt, used with permission from the author’s new book, Boyhood among the Woolies, describes summers when the Etulains left their eastern Washington ranch to graze their sheep in the
Pull on the Right! By Robin Castle It was a particularly pretty winter morning on our ranch north of Shoshone. There was no wind, and the snow sparkled from the sun’s reflection. The air was crisp, and the
A Newcomer Learns Ranch Lingo By Bobbi Phelps Photos Courtesy of Bobbi Phelps In 1980, suburbanite Bobbi Phelps moved to the four-thousand-acre Wolverton family ranch in southern Idaho’s Twin Falls and Cassia Counties. Her book, Sky Ranch: Living
Work and Hospitality on the Range Story and Photos by Brian Parry In the summer of 2019, I spent a week with my friends Jim and Jacque Moreno and their family on a beautiful 122-acre ranch near Culdesac.
It’s Easy, Right? By Michael K. Edwards It can be chilly around the middle of October in southern Idaho’s Magic Valley. At six in the morning, before the sun has come over the horizon, it can be downright
The Firearm As Tool By Dwight Sutton In the years of this story, from 1910 to 1950, in Arco and elsewhere in Idaho, guns and shooting were part of our everyday life. Not a large part, but nonetheless
