Profiles written by Courtney White, originally published in Headwaters News.
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New Mexico rancher uses fire and rotational grazing to erase decades of abuse and to restore the native landscape on his land.

Excerpt:
"If land management is more art than science, as many, including many researchers, say it is, then Sid Goodloe will enter the history books as one of the West's great artists and his Carrizo Valley ranch would be considered a masterpiece.

"This thought came to me a few years ago while standing on a hill overlooking his property. Surveying the lush savanna expanses, broken only occasionally by narrow strips of dense woodland that rose to the west and segued into a park-like ponderosa pine forest, I suddenly realized that I was looking at a work of art, fifty years in the making. It had all the hallmarks of a great piece of sculpture: beauty, proportion, vitality, skill, design and effect.

"That the chosen medium was land, not marble, made no difference - the result was the same: awe and inspiration...."