Word: deere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rugged, remote northwest corner of Montana, the Yaak River Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse in the bottom land. Deep among the whispering pine and the hemlock, among the silver aspen and birch, the bears dig into windfalls for grubs. Rainbow trout, cutthroat and whitefish tumble in Beetle and Winkum Creeks...
...several hours he rode, traversing mountain and valley, following deer trails and nudging his horse skillfully along rocky paths. Occasionally, he crunched out a cigarette on a heavy leather glove worn as a horseback ashtray, or reined his mount to a halt and gazed out over the green valleys below...
...Mormon Church, who sold his own oil company in 1947 to help administer the Latter-day Saints' formidable commercial empire, urging it to expand out of Utah into cattle ranches in Florida, Texas, Canada and Australia, choice Manhattan, London and Berlin real estate; of a heart attack; in Deer Park...
Friendly Farmers. Mutually frustrated in the face of such plenty, dove hunters display unusual sympathy for one another. Unlike surly, secretive deer hunters, who are all too prone to argue over whose shot felled which animal first, dovemen retrieve one another's downed birds, happily transmit information about good hunting grounds, and try not to sprinkle the neighboring encampment with No. 6 bird shot. They get on famously with farmers in the richly irrigated valley, who find the grain-eating doves a nuisance (the dove population consumes 300 tons of seed a day). What's more, each hunter...
...land and citrus groves, will preserve Irvine's agricultural tradition ?partly because of its soil and climate, partly because Pereira feels that agriculture is essential to the economic health of the area. The top tier, 30,000 acres of rugged peaks and ragged canyons?a mountain wilderness of deer, coyote and quail, pungent with sage and stippled with cactus?will be reserved for recreation, and it will take considerable population pressure before any residential development will be permitted...