Profiles written by Courtney White, originally published in Headwaters News.
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Arizona rancher Jim Crosswhite uses government ideas and federal grants to bring back water quality and wildlife habitat.

Excerpt:
"It is not a coincidence that for 10 years Jim Crosswhite ran circles around the Himalaya Mountains - literally. To say he enjoys a challenge is like saying a fish enjoys water, or a cow enjoys grass.

"And after successful careers on the Chicago Board of Trade, in international finance, and as a competitor and organizer of high-altitude endurance trials, it is little wonder that upon 'retiring' to a mountain meadow near Springerville, Ariz., Jim would try to cut the Gordian knot of ranch economics in the American West.

"He may have succeeded...."