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Carbon Ranching—Don’t Treat Soil Like Dirt!

By David Jessup     First I thought we were cattle ranchers. Then I learned we were grass ranchers (the cattle are merely a way to get the grass to the bank). Then at a 2010 Quivira Coalition conference, I found out we are really carbon ranchers, of all things. Plants scrub the air of […]

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Water Quality Improvement at Sylvan Dale Ranch

A Pilot Project of the Colorado Conservation Exchange  By David Jessup Can ranches and farms in the Poudre-Big Thompson watershed improve the quality of water used by Front Range urban dwellers?  That question is being addressed by a pilot project at Sylvan Dale Ranch, a 3,200-acre working guest ranch located at the mouth of the […]

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Troubled Teen Cattle Drive

By David Jessup There’s no such thing as a routine cattle drive.  Just ask the group of Sylvan Dale Ranch “adventure riders” who helped move sixty yearlings from their winter pasture back to the main ranch on Saturday, April 14, 2012. Seven of us saddled up at 9 am, the spring sun warming our faces, […]

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