Commercial cattle ranching, mainly in the commercial land of the Woodland and Savanna biomes, and commercial small stock ranching in the Karoo biome all represent relatively capital intensive systems, with fencing and water provision being important assets.
In the Karoo biome, the livestock systems, dominated by small stock, included unfenced traditional small-scale small stock production on communal land and fenced large-scale commercial small stock ranching on commercial land.
Thus, the opening comments of the conference proceedings emphasize: Only by the planned utilization of wildlife as a renewable natural resources, either for protein or as a recreational attraction, can its conservation and development be economically justified in competition with agriculture, stock ranching and other forms of land use (p19, IUCN 1963).
After 1879, with the threat from the Indian wars diminished on the plains of Montana, stock ranches and open range cattle ranching moved east into Central and Eastern Montana.
The majority of reported cases in Namibia are found in the central stock-ranching region, where human population density is low, and wildlife plentiful [ 6].
Aunt Olive has plenty of stock on ranch – chickens, bantams, roosters, hens, ducks, etc., + I know our place is alive with the same.
Today, through necessity -- the stock of ranches is incalculable -- and the cartwheels of design revisionism, as well as what Ms. Samon calls a "McMansion backlash," there is a ranch-house renaissance.
With their own economy growing quickly, the Chinese arrivals were armed with more money and wanted newer, more expensive homes than Richardson's usual stock of ranch-style homes built in the 1950s.
The Burrishoole ranch stock used in this study were originally derived from Burrishoole wild stock and have been line bred since the early 1970's as part of an on-going experimental ranching programme.
(He was supposed to write a composition, and intended to tell the story of how the Albino, a wild stallion, stole away Gypsy, the MacLaughlins' prize mare, and thereby seeded a wild, volatile strain in the ranch's stock. But he spent the entire hour staring out of the window, imagining instead of writing).
KATHERINE ANN SAMON comes from solid Texas ranch stock.
