Sentences with phrase «ranch land since»

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The Black - footed Ferret has been listed as an endangered species since 1967; more than a half century of misguided predator control campaigns and efforts to eradicate prairie dogs from farm and ranch land decimated the population.

Van Rooyen says he paid a mere $ 25,000 (U.S) for a sprawling ranch - style home and several acres of land, but prices have gone up since.

Rancho San Marcos, tucked deep into the valley floor of the Santa Ynez Mountains, has kept the essence of the old ranch which was located here since the Spanish land grant of 1804.

Before the tourism boom, cattle ranching was the heart of the local economy, practically the only way that locals could earn a living here with the land, since no one had found a way to grow crops at competitive rates.

Deforesting the Amazon in the Name of Beef Since 1996, 10 million hectares have been deforested in the Brazilian Amazon just for cattle ranching — an area of land about the size of Iceland.

His family has farmed and ranched on land in what is now New Mexico and Colorado since the 16th century.

In Brazil — which has lost 55 million hectares since 1990, an area three fourths the size of Texas — land clearing for farms and ranches is the big driver.