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This Week’s Story: The Moose Tree

“That’s a widow-maker,” I said while pointing to a nearby tree. I was speaking to Bret who was proudly standing next to the wall tent he’d just put up. He now looked confused. It was clear he had no clue what I was talking about…..

Store News

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Use the code “SCRATCH&DENT” or “HERDSMAN” to get 10% off Glenn’s scratch and dent packs and herdsman boxes, respectively! This deal gives you an additional 10% off beyond the 10% or more off discounts built into these bundles pricing.

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Ranch News

Glenn got up on our grazing range boundary this week at 8000 feet. He was scouting a possible line for all of the herd to graze some never before accessed grasslands. It looks like it may be possible even though this view to the west is a little unsettling. There’s only one dirt road between this view and the other side of the state about a hundred miles away…it’s unbroken wilderness. Photo by Glenn.

Here’s the view the other way looking back on the Hat Creek ranges and where we’ve been. Where we started this grazing journey, at the Salmon River Crossing, is not even in the picture. It’s over 30 trail miles away. Photo by Glenn.

Big thunderheads like this one have been a blessing in the past few weeks although they require big reactions from us. They’ve dumped much needed rain…but on the other side, they’ve made range roads impassable, they’ve soaked our hay crops and have even caused a fire on our grazing country. But we’re still so grateful; the grass is fresh and green. Photo by Glenn.

Being the grass scout, I get to see some beautiful regeneration happening on our grazing country. Here I broke through the edge of a wildfire that burned 9,000 acres of our grassland and forest in 2018. Just a few years ago this was just a sterile, ashy, blackened lodgepole pine forest. Now you can see the fireweed blooming and many other forbs and grasses as the trees begin to fall down. With us living on the range with our cattle we get to see these incremental changes on a year by year basis instead of simply being a visitor. I’m always in awe of how resilient nature can be. Photo by Glenn.

I found this beautiful aspen stand for the first time after over 20 years of ranging this grazing land. This is in upper Moose Creek scouting yesterday. We’ll easily be able to keep the cattle out of this and maintain this critical habitat and what is otherwise sagebrush and forest ecosystem. These aspen stands are sort of a refuge for so many animals. I’m just amazed how many bears live all over this country and how these aspen stands seem to be their gathering places. They seem to have a penchant for leaving graffiti on the clean slate of aspen bark; almost every tree had somebody’s claw messages inscribed on it. These are exceptionally large aspen trunks for our country, some of them will go 16 inches in diameter. Photo by Glenn.

Bears scratch, but elk shred! A very large bull elk decided to polish his antlers and remove any remainder of velvet on this mature aspen tree. He ended up killing it rubbing all the way down to the cambium! Photo by Glenn.

Yesterday marked a first for Clyde the Border collie and even me on the Hat Creek ranges! A pair of young moose decided to find happy residence in the sagebrush next to our heavily willowed creek and beaver swamps on our Little Hat Creek Ranch. I don’t think Clyde’s ever seen one before. Photo by Glenn.

Yesterday was our second branding of our calves up on the range. It was our cleanup branding of any calves that were born after our previous branding over a month ago. Branding is kind of a necessary process on these big ranges to ensure that the cattle we raise up there come back to Alderspring Ranch in the fall. The cattle are easily identified by the freeze branded mark on their ribs, and in Idaho that mark identification is the only thing that can legally be recognized to tie ownership to us. The crew is smiling because they’ve never gotten to work cattle in the shade like this; it’s the advantage of being able to brand anywhere in the high timber. We don’t need to start a fire because we just bring some dry ice to get the irons cold, and temporarily freeze their flesh to remove their ability to pigment their hair; the brand will appear white when it grows back after we shave the fur off. In a minute the calves are released and sent back to their mamas! Photo by Glenn.

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