Cattle grazing north of Sturgis, South Dakota. (Taken October 17th.)
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My Great Grandfather was dried out of Carmangay Alberta in 1922 and moved to the Withering Hills south of Drumheller. My great Uncle told me that there were over 10,000 dead cattle and sheep laying everywhere when they got there. Winter kill, no feed.
no bible sporting, gun totin red necks out there?????
Man, I miss the west. :'(
Cattle genocide...I'm sure the UN will be along any minute and blame it on AGW.
Ahem, I wish to point out to our web mistress Kate that those are LARGE DEAD ANIMALS!
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Wow! God's Country?
We've been thru the area many times, the landscape looks almost prehistoric.
Prehistoric?? At times Sturgis appears absolutely Neanderthal. I kept repeating "don't screw up" "don't screw up" as a dozen Ohio Hell's Angels passed me.
That's a beautiful picture.
"the landscape looks almost prehistoric."
That was meant as a joke, right? Heh.
I thought there weren't any records from prehistoric times of how the landscape looked then?
The fences were a LOT taller in prehistoric times.
I go down there every couple of year for a week but always during the summer and there's always blistering heat so its hard to think of the area buried in feet of snow. It is a beautiful area of the state though and I always enjoy my visit.
Kate at Sturgis (or close) without a bike. Kind of like missing the last brewery tour. You're there but it just doesn't seem the same.
looks like the sweetgrass hills. montana
Well no, its just that the landscape with its flat prairie punctuated by various bluffs and buttes looks like it was never touched by the hand of man except of course for the pavement of Highway 85 and the odd fence post.
Wanna hear a great song about them thar hills??
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9QJyWdXMP_A
(Great song to be listening to while driving your F-150 on a US ''No speed limit highway''--flat out!)
Western cattle sure are tougher than our eastern breeds. Around here in Ontario they lie down to die, out west they die on their feet!
I haven't heard any news report about this? Very surprising to me that 100,000 cattle would die in such a short time. They are tougher than that. Not like blizzards were invented yesterday.
I think the current figure is around 30,000. Many were caught out on the range, were soaked with rain first, then covered in deep snow where they died of exposure.
What is interesting is that horses make it through weather that kills cattle. They are much tougher. Snow melts off their backs. I've seen horses out and getting by at -35F. Mind you up North they get so hairy in the Winter they look like horses in cave paintings than the ones we usually see.