September on the Little Snake
We have been strangely silent this month--but not because nothing has been going on! Au contraire. The camera has been busy, but the fingers at the keyboard have not. September finds the cows and calves, and ewes and lambs in their last month on their forest permits. As the nights (and days) grow colder, the livestock start thinking that it's time to pull out of the high country, giving the herders fits as they try to keep them together and on good feed before they head for the fall country and eventually the winter country. We've had exceptional rains this year, which has given us a good hay crop, and intermittent haying weather. I don't think we've ever still been haying this late in the year, but we'll be glad to have the feed on hand this winter. We have just finished putting additional "fish structures" in Battle Creek, in a cooperative project with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and our local Natural Resources Conservation District. Here are some photos to show you September on the Little Snake.
Cow and calf
Dudley Creek, Routt National Forest
Routt County, Colorado
Cow in tall grasses
Dudley Creek
Antelope in Big Red Park
Routt National Forest
Edgar with (mostly) blackfaces
coming down the road near Home Ranch
Modest and Richar
Father-in-law and son-in-law
Congratulations, Richar, on your new son
and Modesto on your grandson in Peru!
Tennesee Creek, Routt Forest
Riverwork on Battle Creek
from the Battle Creek bridge
WY 710
Riverworker Paul Prestrud, supervised by his father Dick
photos by Sharon O'Toole
Almost the last of the bales
Ames Field, Home Ranch
photo by Patricia Moore
