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Since April, the company has rented 300 sheep to clients that include a school, a doctor and local subsidiaries of Alcoa and American Home Products. Customers must take a minimum of five sheep for the whole summer and graze them on at least 1¼acres of lawn that is free of chemicals. The fee: $7.80 per sheep per season. That barely covers insurance on the animals. But Anette and her partners. Mother Doris, 48, and Brother Tom, 18, expect to make a sizable profit in the fall by taking back the sheep-by then nicely fattened-and selling them...
Among other overlooked camping areas within easy reach of a city is Montana's Fishtrap fishing-access site in the Big Hole River Valley, about 40 miles southwest of Butte. Not far from its campsites, moose, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep and goats graze. Fishtrap is a "blue-ribbon" fishing area-the state's highest designation-whose streams teem with rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Relatively few visitors have discovered the Bighorn River south of Billings, Mont., which encompasses mountains, upland prairie, desert and wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming...
...named Bramer trusts more to instinct. When she senses that bad weather is coming the next day, she beds down in her straw-lined stall in Huntsville, Texas. When some thing tells her that a sunny day is due on the morrow, she ventures forth to graze, even if the weather at that moment is drizzly...
Said Arafat: "If we return now to the historical root of our cause, we do so because present at this very moment in our midst are those who, while they occupy our homes, as their cattle graze in our pastures and as their hands pluck the fruit from our trees, claim at the same time that we are disembodied spirits, fictions without presence, without traditions or future...
...acres on the canyon floor, more than 300 of the Indians are cut off from civilization during the winter, when the eight-mile trail that leads down to their village ices over. With their land back, the Indians say, they could again live on the mesa in winter and graze their cattle there...