Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Shelter

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/shelter02132008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/shelter02132008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Taking shelter from the wind. Even my working right nearby would not spook him out of this shelter. Taken 2/13/2008. </center>

  • Camelina

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/23/news/state/23-camelina.txt">Fuel-maker offers more for camelina</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Competition from surging grain prices prompted a Bigfork biofuels developer to announce Friday it will boost its contract price for the oilseed crop camelina.<br />n<br />nGreat Plains – The Camelina Co. is one of two groups with plans to produce a combined 200 million gallons of biofuels annually…

  • Prey

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calf02202008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calf02202008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Just another cute calf. I have to do my part to raise food for the wolves you know. Taken 2/20/2008. </center>

  • Success?

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/22/news/state/25-wolfrecovery.txt">Government hails wolf recovery as success</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Calling it a "remarkable conservation success story," the federal government said Thursday that it plans to remove gray wolves in the Northern Rockies from the endangered-species list, 13 years after the animals were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho.<br />n<br />nThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife…

  • Funding

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/21/news/state/18-wolfstatus.txt">Funding questions abound as feds change wolf's status</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Returning gray wolves to the Northern Rockies has already cost more than $27 million. Keeping them here will mean spending millions of dollars more.<br />n<br />nBut with federal officials poised today to announce the removal of wolves from the endangered-species list, there are unresolved questions…

  • Hit

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEAD_SATELLITE?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Navy scores direct hit on spy satellite</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A U.S. Navy cruiser blasted a disabled spy satellite with a pinpoint missile strike that achieved the main mission of exploding a tank of toxic fuel 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, defense officials said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nExcuse me for being a cynic, but this was nothing…

  • Good Looking

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/red02142008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/red02142008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I tell My Darling Wife I'm out seeing a good looking red head every day. I thought I should share a picture of her. Damn fine looking, isn't she. Taken 2/14/2008.</center>

  • I’m Getting Fed Up

    I used to think better of people who lived in Montana but Over the past years my opinion has really gone down hill. The covert hostility you get when you have the gall to marry somebody who isn't lily white from friends and family and the general public is unbelievable. It is really making me…

  • Weather

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/snow02182008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/snow02182008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The newborn calves not liking the wind and snow bothering them. We sure have been getting a lot of wind lately. Taken 2/18/2008.</center>

  • Recall

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=2A88FCDB-D4DE-1315-5A79DEB6B457E0D1"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> initiates largest beef recall ever</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> announced Sunday the parent company of the Hallmark/Westland packing plant in Chino, California had agreed to voluntarily recall…