2008 Award Recipients
Dale Veseth - Veseth Cattle Co.
Mike Reardon - Canon Bonito Ranch

Excerpt from Program:
"Mike and his family have been in the Wagon Mound, NM area for over 50 years and for the last ten he has been very active in managing the family ranch known as Cañon Bonito. He has continually sought out the very best methods to reverse the declining conditions of the wildlife, range and watershed. Mike has traveled near and far to listen to various experts in different fields explain their system, their success and failures. Mike has developed many innovative and sustainable tools for the ranch that have led to diversity and abundance of wildlife and grasses. In ten years the ranch has gone from nearly a monoculture of blue gramma to growing over 55 grass species. Dry springs are flowing again and wildlife populations are up by a factor of ten."
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"Working on and far beyond his family's remote Montana ranch, Dale exemplifies Quivira Coalition ideals of ranch-based stewardship, innovation, leadership and collaboration.

"In a conservative ranching community warily facing an uncertain future, it is often lonely to be an audible innovator, boxless thinker and natural collaborator. Over the years Dale has quietly endured criticism from some neighbors for his 'New Ranch' type of ideas. Dale pressed beyond self-doubt, thanks to infusions of dreams and validation gleaned from wide ranging inquiry and networks with other courageous and enterprising ranchers far distant from Montana's prairies."


. 2008 Burch Award Presentation