Montana Ranch Wanted
Mott
My family struggles. We went through the eighties and, my family, we lost a ranch in the mid-eighties during trickle-down economics, you know how well that worked. For us, it didn't work at all and we lost it. And I've had to seek out -- I've been able to go back to the ranch a little bit, but basically I can't go back and get into ranching again, it's too much money. I'm not Ted turner, I can't afford one. ... We talk about the STEs and state trading enterprises and we want transparencies. I spent 18 months trying to do a school project on meat exports in Japan, and I went to the FAS, I went to the senators' offices, I went to every resource I could. And do you know what I wanted? I wanted simple information, I wanted to know how much meat was exported by company, not by the United States, by company into Japan. I never did find it. I know down to almost the pound how much meat was exported, but I can't tell which company exported that. But, yet, in school, they'll sit there on the computer and they'll say Compaq sent 10,000 computers and IBM sent in 12,336 computers. How come we can be that specific? And we want transparencies from STE and Cargill, private company doesn't have to report anything. And we want STEs to be transparent, but our own companies don't have to be transparent. ... [Read More]
Division of Bird Habitat Conservation Birdscapes-Partners: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Bob’s friend, Rockford attorney Jan Ohlander, described the unusual vision that led to the gifting of the ranch. “Bob believed large tracts of unbroken land are slipping away. He wanted to change a mind-set among people of means and encourage them to consider similar opportunities to protect and pass on properties that provide a legacy for future generations. Bob wanted the Double H Ranch to be both an inspiration to other landowners and a challenge to the Foundation to expand its vision and capabilities for protecting larger and more critical chunks of habitat,” Ohlander said. “Bob was extraordinarily generous, and he had a knack for looking into the future and taking actions that would have magnified impacts years from now.” ... [Read More]
F B I Fugitive-Edward Eugene Harper
Harper considers himself to be a member of the Freemen Sovereign Citizen Group. He has family ties in Arkansas. Harper is believed to have been doing ranching work in Montana and Wyoming. ... Edward Eugene Harper is wanted for allegedly having sexual relations with a child under the age of fourteen in Hernando, Mississippi. On April 27, 1994, a state arrest warrant was issued by the Circuit Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi, charging Harper with conspiracy to commit sexual battery, child fondling and sexual battery. Harper was arrested and released on bond. On October 31, 1994, Harper's bond was revoked after he failed to appear for a court hearing. A federal arrest warrant was subsequently issued by the United States District Court, Northern District of Mississippi, on February 5, 1999, charging Harper with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. ... [Read More]
Tilton-Chiovaro
I watch as my family, friends, and neighbors struggle against enormous odds to survive in a field that pits man against incredible odds. It's not enough that a rancher should have to contend with the ordinary obstacles today, whether disease, market foibles, interest rates, and increasing pressure from urban sprawl. Now, thanks to the benevolent Great White Father, we can watch as truckload after truckload of imported market livestock enter the country to drive the prices down even further. ... [Read More]
Outgrowing Myths
I wanted to write anecdotes, and Malamud wanted to write stories that involve recognitions and change, just like I’ve tried to tell my students for thirty years. But I wouldn’tdo it. He had good reason to hate me. I was arrogant and resisted everything he said, and he was very strong-minded. He gave me, I think, five Fs in a row and, finally,I rolled over and did a paper the way he wanted and he gave me an A for the final one and a B for the class. But he was going to flunk me, I think, if I would not turnin anything except these anecdotal pieces about what it was like one Sunday afternoon or something, which is what I really valued, what I really held sacred. ... [Read More]
Articles on Heritage Projects and Place-Based Education: Teacher and Student Projects: Educational Resources (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
In an unusually ambitious project, social studies teacher Jeff Gruber organized more than thirty citizens, including the mayor, a Forest Service archeologist, church and business leaders, and a city council member to join forces with his high school seniors in the evenings to conduct an intensive ten-week community self-study following the model Baker Brownell and Joe Howard created for the Montana Study in the 1940s. Gruber organized the study because he felt that young people were disenfranchised. "They see that things are changing, and they feel powerless to affect the changes," he said. He wanted them to understand the way citizens in a free democracy, including themselves, can meet their challenges by educating themselves and by linking their efforts. Libby had been one of the communities in the original Montana Study, and Gruber had spent much time visiting with the chair of that committee, Inez Herrig. She visited Gruber's classes to tell the seniors about the study s ... [Read More]
15 COMMISSIONER ROWE: As we get situated, if we can go
MS. BANDELIER: I'd like to read an excerptfrom a letter written by our Jackson, Montana, site supervisor. She said-- this is some of the things she's been doing with her local access site.She's helping the supervisor at a nearby, which is Polaris, site. Polarisis, I think, about a one building location, and this lady agreed to takeit. The community wanted it, but the person that did have it moved to Arizona,so we had to find another person to take over that Polaris site. Incidentally,they can only get a downloading speed of 14 -- a modem of 14, even thoughthey have a 36 modem in the computer, because of the phone line problems. ... [Read More]
Lewis and Clark Bicentennial - Special Edition of People, Land & Water
Lewis and Clark had specific instructions from President Jefferson toreport on factors that would reveal the potential of this vast new land foragricultural purposes. The President wanted the explorers to report on“the soil and face of the country, its growth and vegetable production,especially those not of the United States; the animals of the country generally,and especially those not known in the United States.” After the firstwinter of the Expedition in 1805 (Ft. Mandan, N.D.), Lewis and Clark sentsamples of soil, minerals, and plants and other items back to thePresident. Their journals contain the first detailed descriptions of thesoils, vegetation, and animals native to an area that now spans 18 differentstates. Several other members of the expedition recorded information onthe soils they encountered, including Sergeant Charles Floyd, the onlymember of the expedition who did not survive the journey. ... [Read More]
Nellie_Preservationist
During this time, Nellie happened to read Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archeology written by C. W. Ceram in 1951. Her son credits this book for providing the impetus behind her vision of preserving the ranch as a museum for a larger audience. As an example, family acquaintances, the Boveys, had been restoring historic Virginia City, Montana since the late 1940s. The National Park Service recognized the significance of the ranch, notifying the Warrens in 1958 that it could be designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1966, Nellie read about the Eisenhower Farm acquisition by the National Park Foundation as a national historic site. She asked her husband, "Wouldn't the Foundation want to acquire their ranch for the same purpose?" At her insistence, Conrad Warren wrote the National Park Service and put the ball in motion. But, he always gave his wife full credit for preserving the ranch, "If it hadn't been for her, we wouldn't be standing here right now. ... [Read More]
Centennial Land Trust and the Colorado Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program,Region 6, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The Centennial Land Trust has acquired its first Conservation Easement: on the Joe Rocchio property near Orchard, Colorado. Joe began acquiring the ranch in the 1940's. He has always considered himself to be a conservationist and wanted to be sure his ranch was left as a legacy for the benefit of wildilfe and cattle ranching. Joe likes the fact that the easement will protect the ranch from subdivision. Partners for Fish and Wildlife will help restore wildlife habitat. ... [Read More]
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