January 13, 2006
Lower Field, Greasy Creek
January 13, 2006
Robbin and I got up to Sulphur to cut some dry oak and manzanita. Calves are growing – cows and feed on the “improve,” and the bulls still home. Drug the main road up and back before it rained.
The roads are our lifeline in these foothill ranchscapes. Our objective is to get the water off the road as quickly as possible to keep it from washing, cutting and eroding. We can’t get our goosenecks everywhere, but we can drive in thirty minutes to what used to take us half-a-day to ride. Instead of packing 200 lbs. of salt on a packhorse or a mule, we can scatter 2,000 lbs. and see a lot more cattle in the same amount of time.
Little wonder we don’t make as many horses as we used to.