Integrating Conservation Programs into Rangeland Management

Authors

• Al Wind, Wind Ranch
• Simone Wind, Wind Ranch
• Matt Stoltenberg, Belle Fourche River Watershed Partnership
• Mitch Faulkner, Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Steve Fairbairn, US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Tom Berdan, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
• Roger Gates, SDSU Extension, SDSU West River Ag Center

Date of this Version

2013

Document Type

Article

Citation

Range Beef Cow Symposium XXIII, December 3-5, 2013, Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, SD.

Comments

Copyright © 2013 Al and Simone Wind, Matt Stoltenberg, Mitch Faulkner, Steve Fairbairn, Tom Berdan, and Roger Gates.

Abstract

Al and Simone Wind purchased the ranch in April of 2007. At that time the area was suffering from 7 years of persistent drought. The previous owners had purchased the ranch in 2001 and had been operating it as a cow/calf operation running about 150 pairs more or less. Prior to 2001 the ranch had been in the same ownership for approximately 45 years and had started out as a sheep operation and eventually had become a combination sheep and cow operation.