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Ranches : Home on the Range in California
The romantic and intriguing homes set in the idyllic landscapes of the great California ranches. The lure of the West has been strong in American history, representing the promise of beautiful, wild landscapes, broad vistas, clean air, and bright skies. Set on this magnificent land are the homes and their interiors from the 150-year-old Rancho Camulos of Ramona fame to Jack London's Beauty Ranch on the slopes of Sonoma Mountain to the working ranches of today. At once a tribute to an historic form and a fading way of life, as well as a celebration of renewal, architectural beauty, and the romance of the West, this book offers the reader an immersive experience of living on the land.
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Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch
The Pitchfork Ranch is more than another dusty homestead tucked
away in a corner of the Southwest. It is a place with a story to
tell about the most pressing crisis to confront humankind. It is a
place where one couple is working every day to right decades of
wrongs. It is a place of inspiration and promise. It is an
invitation to join the struggle for a better planet. Restoring
the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat
restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. A. Thomas Cole
explains what inspired him and his wife, Lucinda, to turn their
retirement into years dedicated to hard work and renewal. The book
shares the past and present history of a very special ranch south
of Silver City, which is home to a rare type of regional wetland, a
fragile desert grassland ecosystem, archaeological sites, and a
critical wildlife corridor in a drought-stricken landscape. Today
the 11,300 acres that make up the Pitchfork Ranch provide an
important setting for carbon sequestration, wildlife habitats, and
space for the reintroduction of endangered or threatened species.
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch weaves together stories of
mine strikers, cattle ranching, and the climate crisis into an
important and inspiring call to action. For anyone who has wondered
how they can help, the Pitchfork Ranch provides an inspiring way
forward.
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Twin sombreros : a western story
When Brazos Keene, a haunted cowboy with an honorable streak, comes across Twin Sombreros Ranch, he finds himself dragged into a vicious family feud. A convenient fall guy, Brazos is accused of the murder of Allen Neece, son of Abe Neece. The Neeces are the former owners of Twin Sombreros, but they lost it to the Surface family when their $50,000 herd of cattle mysteriously disappeared, turning the once proud Abe into a broken man as he and his twin daughters get kicked off their former land. Brazos barely manages to avoid a hanging. But when he falls for one of the Neece girls, he decides he can't just leave without finding out who really killed Allen and what's at the bottom of this war over the ranch. All hell breaks loose and Brazos must become an instrument of vengeance, furiously shooting his way through the web of lies and greed that now hangs over Twin Sombreros Ranch.
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Hearst Ranch : family, land, and legacy
Hearst Ranch offers readers an exclusive behind-the- scenes tour of the stunningly beautiful 82,000-acre cattle ranch surrounding William Randolph Hearst's legendary Hearst Castle. Much of this spectacular landscape is still privately owned and has never been seen-but this book changes that. Through historical images from the vast Hearst archive and full-colour photography commissioned for this volume, the Hearst Ranch and its many century-old ranch buildings and residences designed by Julia Morgan are revealed for the first time. Kastner's engaging and insightful text shares new tales of the Hearst family, of the talented Morgan and her staff, of the many colourful ranch employees and of the countless Hollywood movie stars who joined Hearst and Marion Davies as they went roughing it out on the ranch.
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Conflict between cattle ranching and the conservation of jaguar in the Amazon arc of deforestation
Livestock predation constitutes the primary source of conflict between humans and large carnivores. Moreover, human factors, such as attitudes and emotions, can affect people's tolerance towards carnivores, exacerbating the conflict. Such conflicts often lead to retaliatory killing of carnivores, which not only poses significant threats to species conservation but also to ecosystem functioning and services. Therefore, mitigating human-carnivore conflicts is essential to promote both species conservation and human well-being. Here, we studied the conflict between extensive cattle ranching and the conservation of jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) in 129 ranches located in the Amazon arc of deforestation. We interviewed ranchers about livestock management procedures, livestock mortality, approaches to reduce predation in the area, and attitudes regarding carnivores and conservation. Our results revealed that ranchers did not perceive carnivore attacks as the primary cause of cattle mortality. However, they exhibited a significant lack of tolerance towards these incidents, partially explained by economic reasons. They also showed negative attitudes towards big cats, which were mainly associated with social factors, such as low educational background. As a consequence, jaguar and puma were frequently killed in retaliation. Ranches showed different vulnerability to attacks depending on cattle management (cattle density, calves) and landscape (forest cover inside the ranch, distance to national parks). Our findings suggest that the conflict between cattle ranching and big cats conservation in the Amazon deforestation frontier is trigger by livestock predation, but perpetuated by limited knowledge about carnivores, the lack of support from the government to mitigate livestock losses, and the perception that conservation laws conditioned the viability of cattle ranching. Forthcoming mitigation strategies should focus on interventions designed to increase people's tolerance towards jaguars and pumas (e.g. improving knowledge about ecosystem services provided by large carnivores).
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Knifepoint
Jill is enduring a brutal summer job on a mountain ranch, guiding wannabe-cowboys on trail rides. On a solo ride with a handsome stranger she ends up in a fight for her life with no one to help her.
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My kind of Christmas
Travis Morgan is not crazy about moving back to Branding Iron, Texas, to run an abandoned ranch he inherited, until he meets the town's sweetly stubborn mayor, Maggie Delaney.
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