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Thanks to lots of wildflowers, a few horses, and a beautiful sunrise, one of my shots of Promontory Ranch scored the cover of Open Fence’s fall edition.

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NEW PODCAST! Kelsey Molloy (@kelsey_of_malta) is t

NEW PODCAST! Kelsey Molloy (@kelsey_of_malta) is the Northern Great Plains Director at @nature_org and Angel DeVries is the Executive Director of the @ranchers_stewardship_alliance. They both live and work on the Northern Great Plains in Malta, Montana.

While they work for different organizations, Kelsey and Angel collaborate on a long list of critical projects, most of which are focused on grassland conservation, ranching, and community partnerships.

One of their most notable collaborations involves the Matador Ranch, a 60,000-acre TNC-owned property near Dodson, Montana. The Matador Ranch is home to an outside-the-box conservation initiative known as a grassbank, which is a partnership opportunity that offers ranchers grazing access to rich grasses in exchange for adopting sustainable practices on their own property.

This grassbank was introduced during the historic drought of the early 2000s, and it offered much needed grazing opportunities for ranching families whose homeplaces had been hit hard by the dry conditions. Since then, for the past 20+ years, the grassbank has continued to provide win-win solutions for ranchers and conservation-focused non-profit organizations, as well as helping to bolster trust, goodwill, and community cohesiveness.

As you’ll hear in this conversation, the grassbank has been such a success, the TNC is currently searching for another ranch to acquire and eventually transform into a community led and owned grassbank. This “grassbank 2.0” will not only provide a grazing safety net during times of drought, but will also further the work of providing opportunities for new or young ranchers who are just entering the business but do not yet have the capital to purchase their own land.

Check out the comment below for a list of some of the topics we discussed, or visit the episode notes for a full list and links to everything. Link in bio.

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Brought to you in partnership with @co_nature, @tnc_montana, and TNC chapters throughout the West. 🙏🙏
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Photos courtesy of Kelsey, Angel, and TNC.

Biographies. If you had to pick only one, what’s

Biographies. If you had to pick only one, what’s your all-time favorite?
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“I believe in happiness, I believe in pleasure,

“I believe in happiness, I believe in pleasure, I believe in having just as good a time in life as you can have, and I do not believe you will have any good time at all in life unless the good time comes as an incident of the doing of duty—doing some work worth doing.

The men I have known whom I respect and admire are, without exception, men who have achieved something worth achieving, by effort, by the acceptance, perhaps, of risk and hardship, by hard work and even by dreary work, who have had their eyes fixed on a goal worth striving for and have striven steadily toward it; and those are the men who have had real happiness in life.

I know a considerable number of people, men whom I knew in my youth, whom I know slightly now, who have with more or less intelligent industry devoted themselves to having a good time. They strike me as having had an uncommonly poor time; and the very few of them who have enjoyment have it only because gradually their brains have atrophied so as to enable them to take pleasure out of the infinitely vapid.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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