Reading Time: 3 minutes In the articles below, we travel to southwestern Alberta to hear first-hand what it’s like to ranch in the foothills, a region that’s every bit as romantic as it sounds, dominated by scenery, wildlife, unbelievable weather and pristine glacial rivers that feed Canada from the Rockies all the way east to Hudson’s Bay. For conservationists […] Read more
Wild Rose Country is like nowhere else
Guide Canada: With their incredible blend of the traditional and the cutting edge, the ranches in Alberta’s foothills are unique not only for their lifestyle, but for their approach to business too
Like Nowhere Else: Mike Roberts
Guide Canada: Waldron Ranch is a grazing co-operative of 261 square kilometres
Reading Time: 5 minutes Waldron Ranch is 65,000 acres of unbroken foothills wedged between the Porcupine and Whaleback Hills in Alberta’s eastern slopes, and it is one of Canada’s most important ecological sites. These acres are a mixture of deeded, leased and forested areas. In the summertime the ranch is stocked with up to 8,000 cattle at a time. […] Read more
Like Nowhere Else: Tanis Cross
Guide Canada: "It’s so important to keep my mind open,” says Cross.
Reading Time: 3 minutes As you pull up the main drive to the A7 Ranche, you get a feeling there must be real history and tradition at work here, and you’d be right. This ranch been running cattle for 135 consecutive years, back to when Calgary had only been a town for three years. Tanis Cross represents the newest […] Read more
Like Nowhere Else: John Smith and Laura Laing
Guide Canada: For Smith and Laing, it has to be the right technology, whether new or old. Often it’s horses. Sometimes it's drones. And it’s always sustainable
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the same country that’s been ripped open by controversy over a new generation of massive open-pit coal mines, the husband-and-wife duo of John Smith and Laura Laing trail their cattle to pasture the way ranchers always have, by horseback. They could use ATVs but the horses generate less noise and keep the animals’ stress […] Read more
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