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...Coleman and Damrosch believe that adding livestock to their farm will help the planet? Cattleman Ridge Shinn has the answer. On a wintry Saturday at his farm in Hardwick, Mass., he is out in his pastures encouraging a herd of plump Devon cows to move to a grassy new paddock. Over the course of a year, his 100 cattle will rotate across 175 acres four or five times. "Conventional cattle raising is like mining," he says. "It's unsustainable, because you're just taking without putting anything back. But when you rotate cattle on grass, you change the equation...
That persona basically took John Wayne, the solitary western hero, and made him nastier, edgier, way easier to anger. Where the Duke drawled and lumbered--he wasn't so much a cattleman as a cattle man--Clint scowled and pounced, a scorpion with stubble. This character was both iconic and malleable: he was as at home on the streets as on the range and as a cop (in the Dirty Harry series), a convict (Escape from Alcatraz), a soldier (Heartbreak Ridge) and, later, a father figure like the Old Testament God--anyone with an intimidating presence and a sandpaper soul...
...minutes later, John McCarley, a weather-beaten cattleman with a deep drawl and a faded Yankees cap, echoed that analysis. "We're in an era where we need leadership," he said. "There will be social issues where we disagree, but ... we won't have a litmus test. He transcends that...
...Springvale homestead, an hour's drive from Halls Creek, was the home of legendary cattleman and bush poet Tom Quilty. Until the 1886 gold rush, the station was one of this region's few inhabited places. Historian Geoffrey Blainey described men with gold lust traveling the final 1,000 km from Katherine. "The manager of Spring Vale reported that 'great numbers of men from Queensland have passed by, some of them very undesirable characters, who prefer picking their own beef and horse-flesh,'" he writes in The Rush That Never Ended. "They faked the brands on their stolen horses with...
...kangaroo populations. And there's little dispute that they're preferable to hybrids, which tend to be bigger, more aggressive and breed twice a year, rather than the dingo's one annual litter. On his 5,700-sq.-km Napperby Station outside Alice Springs, in a bad year cattleman Roy Chisholm can lose 1% of his calves to wild dogs. Hybrids and dogs from the local Aboriginal community are often the problem - much more so than dingoes. "Hybrids aren't tuned into the natural environment like dingoes are, and they're not prepared to eat lizards and grasshoppers like...