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  • In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock

    Brian Ertz

    Sheep Ranchers Claim Paying Minimum Wage to Workers Would Put them Out of Business. This is an important article : In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock – The New York Times * Also, check out Captive Labor. Environmental Costs Domestic sheep ranching on public land is subsidized in many ways – environmental costs associated with…

  • Captive Labor (about sheepherders, at least some of them)

    Ralph Maughan

    We hear a lot about ranchers, cattle and sheep. They are given aide and comfort by many politicians. The life of a cow hand (cowboy) and the sheepherder are ignored (except in cultural celebration). It my writint about the subsidies given sheep operators, both direct and indirect from the government, plus the environmental subsidies (uncompensated…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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