Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. One of the things I enjoy doing in my writing about energy is ...

Mining gets all the glory in Aspen even though it tailed off as quickly as a comet. The great silver mines only lasted for 14 years before the boom was over. Ranching, on the other hand, sustained the ...

FAITH, S.D. (KELO) — Known as the “Prairie Oasis,” Faith’s history includes ranching, rodeos and even dinosaurs. All of that ...

Ranching was the primary activity along Brush Creek prior to Snowmass developing into a ski area in 1967. Many ranching families made a living raising cattle, sheep and growing potatoes, hay, grains ...

After a decadeslong fight, the majority of ranching along the Point Reyes National Seashore will end by next year, thanks to a legal settlement involving environmentalists, ranchers, and the National ...

SAN ANTONIO – As New Spain was developing the area we now know as Texas, explorers started developing the land around the missions into ranchos, which is Spanish for ranches. “When those first ...

On a late autumn day in the San Luis Valley, rancher Julie Sullivan strolled through her meadow past hundreds of piles of raked hay. Her foreman Hana Fancher and apprentice Morgan Atkinson followed, ...

In the rainforests of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the fires often start when drug traffickers try to clear large swaths of land. Due to the dry bush and lack of rainfall, the flames often ...

In Ghana's Savannah Region, climate change is doing more than just drying up the land; it is driving a complex conflict between farmers and nomadic herders. Every year, large herds arrive in the ...