Sentences with phrase «cattle ranches all»

Roy gained life experience for the real estate arena by growing up and working on sheep and cattle ranches in Wyoming.
If you have a hunting land, farms, ranches, ranch real estate, hunting real estate, recreational real estate, fishing real estate, horse property, cattle ranches, or mountain real estate that you'd like to have exposed to the hunting buyer industry this is the place to advertise hunting property real estate.
The Hutchinson Ranch was one of the last working cattle ranches in an area becoming popular for second homes.
Agriculture, including the largest cotton growing regions in the world, large cattle ranches, and oil production fuel the economy.
Wichita Falls originally formed as a community that supported area cattle ranches and was named after its striking waterfall.
These traditions live on today in the local horse and cattle ranches that dot Edmond's outskirts.
Most of land you refer to as «junk» (I think what you mean is heavily grazed former cattle ranches) abuts BLM land (as opposed to National Forests) is flat and featureless, and tends to be sold in much larger (35 acre +) parcels.
Back then, if you'd asked me what the most pressing threat to wildlife was, I wouldn't have blinked: The world's rainforests were vanishing at a rate of more than 54,000 square miles per year, destroying the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth for timber, soybeans, and cattle ranches.
Amazonian beef accounts for only 6 % of Brazil's beef industry - the rest doesn't involve deforestation so its carbon footprint is similar to other cattle ranches elsewhere.
Dr. Wisner adds that it's important that initiatives to recognize and relieve the plight of displaced people not let national governments «off the hook for their failure to help prevent land degradation and facilitate land restoration and, in some cases, for their collusion with owners of forest companies, open mines, and large cattle ranches in practices that degrade land.»
Meanwhile the «narco cattle ranches» and «narco communities» are destroying the habitat of spider monkeys, jaguars, river turtles and numerous other flora and fauna.
Deforestation Bigger Greenhouse Gas Problem Than Transportation For perspective: Remember that cattle ranches are now a leading cause of Amazon deforestation — with pastures now occupying former forest the size of Iceland.
Meat without industrial scale cattle ranches, without the vast drain on resources required to raise millions of cows.
It was local ranchers, the department believes, who carried out the attack because they oppose the government's protection of the land — which is surrounded by cattle ranches and soy - bean plantations.
These benefits result from Help Build offsets initiating and accelerating improved practices on cattle ranches in Montana.
The result has been the frequent burning and the creation of extensive cattle ranches.
At its most basic level, REDD + enables rich, industrialized countries such as Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom to pay forested tropical countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Peru and others to keep their rain forests standing, rather than log them to make way for cattle ranches or other agricultural purposes.
More than 38,600 square miles has been cleared for pasture since 1996, bringing the total area occupied by cattle ranches in the Brazilian Amazon to 214,000 square miles, an area larger than France.
A substantial portion of the rainforest in Brazil is burned to convert to cattle ranches.
As cattle ranches have displaced biologically rich rainforests, fish farms have displaced mangrove forests that provide important fish nursery habitats and protect coasts during storms.
Uruguay is a wonderfully tranquil and relatively unexplored destination, offering sandy beaches, colonial towns, coastal reserves, grassy plains and cattle ranches.
Today, Upcountry Maui is still home to several working cattle ranches, many of which have been upgraded with luxurious modern amenities.
Reaching inland into green grassland where thousand - acre cattle ranches once prevailed, hill trails offer beautiful hiking and mountain biking...
Nearly two times as large as the other Hawaiian Islands combined, it offers stunning beaches, world - class golf courses, rainforests ideal training environments for triathletes, high - country deserts, cowboys and cattle ranches, artist communities, coffee plantations, the continually erupting Kilauea volcano and even snow and winter skiing on the state's tallest mountain, Mauna Kea.
There is enormous diversity in the landscape, ranging from vast barren lava fields to sprawling cattle ranches, from rugged shoreline to massive 14,000 ft. mountain peaks, and from active Volcano spewing lava, to lush, dense tropical rainforests.
The province is known for its cattle ranches, travelers will see many homes surrounded by green pastures and grazing cows.
Championship golf courses and five - star resorts are a short drive away from working cattle ranches.
This park has a rich cultural history, with old homesteads and cattle ranches to explore and photograph dotted throughout its boundaries.
Travel to the north of the country through cattle ranches and diverse plantations before enjoying a lunch in front of the Volcano in La Fortuna.
The major sources of employment are the larger and foreign - owned orange plantations and cattle ranches, and the political capital of Belmopan where most residents are civil servants and shop - keepers.
Taking advantage of the expansive fields and altering much of the natural environment, ranchers and vaqueros, or cowboys, built successful sheep and cattle ranches.
Dairy farms, cattle ranches, and sheep ranches use dogs on a daily basis.
In the revealing special, you can learn about the history of pit bulls, dating back to the 1800s, when they were commonly used on farms and cattle ranches to herd animals.
A small number of Blue Heelers worked in cattle ranches all over Canada.
Judy Blunt spent more than thirty years on wheat and cattle ranches in northeastern Montana, before leaving in 1986 to attend the University of Montana.
Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever - present wind by retreating into books.
Grew up a cowboy on large cattle ranches.
As a teen moved to Texas learned how to rope and worked on cattle ranches.
Spent every summer of my life until I was 18 on cattle ranches and back packing with my family.
Grew up on cattle ranches all my life...
When I had the opportunity recently to participate in a media tour, with Florida Beef Council and Sunday Supper Movement, of Florida cattle ranches and meet the people behind the industry, one thing I learned is that family is important to these ranchers too.
Even so, there was always more wildlife — amphibian or otherwise — in those mountaintop cloud forests than in the sprawling cattle ranches below.
Back then, if you'd asked me what the most pressing threat to wildlife was, I wouldn't have blinked: The world's rainforests were vanishing at a rate of more than 54,000 square miles per year, destroying the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth for timber, soybeans, and cattle ranches.
But once the local forest is gone, income from timber typically dries up, the researchers believe; many farms and cattle ranches are abandoned after a few years because the nutrient - poor soil rapidly becomes depleted.
WILD elephants roam across the crowded plains of India; forested river banks wind through cattle ranches in Brazil; a ribbon of green stretches across Europe where the Iron Curtain used to be.
Early colonialists were largely clueless when it came to land surveys, rarely knowing for sure where their expansive cattle ranches started or stopped, says Andrew Sluyter, a geographer at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
When the cattle ranches were founded on the southern Great Plains in the latter part of the 19th century — a development immortalized in the 1948 movie Red River — a lot of formerly productive and environmentally stable grassland shifted perilously close to becoming desert.
An excerpt from Eric Dinerstein's Kingdom of Rarities explores whether the anteater and other South American oddities can survive as Brazil's Cerrado grassland is converted into cattle ranches and soybean farms
During the colonization of Brazil in the 16th century, land was doled out entirely to Portuguese royal families, and, today, productive land in the lowland savanna has been swallowed up by cattle ranches, soybean farms, and eucalyptus plantations run by powerful business interests.
«We believe that the establishment of cattle ranches or grazing reserves is an economically viable project that can generate millions of jobs and income for Nigerians and the country.
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