Building Resilience (Part 1)

"The theme of this issue of our Journal - and the next one as well - is based on our successful Seventh Annual Conference, titled 'Building Resilience: Creating Hope in an Age of onsequences.'" -Courtney White, Excerpt

• Preserving Lifeway Traditions and Heritage Breeds for a Resilient Future -Gay Chanler
• Shepherds' Know-How Faced with Globalization and Nature Cosnervation: a French Experience -Michel Meuret and Mick Gascoin
• Resilience and Reciprocity -Rebecca Watters
• $7 Gas and the New West -Courtney White
• Local Beef: An Opportunity to Seize, Part 1 -Sarah Laeng-Gilliat, with contributions by Ken Meter

Fresh Eyes

"This issue of our Journal is inspired by the theme of our successful Sixth Annual Conference: 'Fresh Eyes On The Land: Innovation and the Next Generation.' -Courtney White, Excerpt

• Sembrando Semillas: Planting Seeds of Traditional Agriculture for Future Generations -Miguel Santistevan and young farmers
• Querencia: The Soul of the Paisano -Estevan Arellano
• A Young Cowhand on the Rio Grande -Vanessa Prileson
• The Next Generation of Conservation: a Rough Draft -Courtney White
• Rancher Demographics, Socioeconomic Pressures, and the Challenge of Meeting Conservation Goals -Dr. Mark Brunson and Dr. Lynn Huntsinger
• Letter to the Editor -Wendell Berry

Crossing Divides

"We are all familiar with poet Robert Frost's famous line that 'good fences make good neighbors.' But in 'Mending Wall', the line is spoken not by the narrator but by his neighbor, a farmer, and it is the only thing his neighbor says in the entire poem. It's left to the narrator to muse over its meaning, as well as over the stone wall that separates them, noting 'Something there is that doesn't love a wall.'" -Courtney White, Excerpt

• Crossing the Great Divide -Curt Meine
• The New Western Range -Nathan Sayre
• Crossing the Generational Divide: the Trigg Experience -Linda Decker
• Shopping in Walsenberg -Linda Hasslestrom
• A View from Malta -Courtney White
• Private Ranchlands and Public-land Grazing in the Southern Rocky Mountains -Colin Talbert and Richard Knight

A New Land Movement

"Welcome to our new Journal... Our goal, as before, is to inspire and educate. After Nine years, however, we decided it was time to use 'fresh eyes' on the publication. I hope what you see and read meets your expectations..." -Courtney White, Excerpt

• A New Land Movement: Beyond Saving Places to Saving Relationships -Peter Forbes
• In Praise, and in Appraisal of, the Working Landscapes of the West -Gary Paul Nabhan with Ken Meter
• A West that Works: A Corner Turned - the Chico Basin Ranch -Courtney White
• A View from the Field: An Ecotone, Not a Divide -Julie Sullivan
• The Break of Day: PrePostindustrialism - or Getting from Here to There -Courtney White
• Restoration Working Paper No. 1: Seeing the Forest and the Trees - a Review of a Collaborative Restoration Project on Rowe Mesa, San Miguel County, New Mexico -Courtney White