The Eco-Cowboys: Big land buys signal greens are moving into ranching

If you’re going to to break into the cowboy business, this is as good a place as any to do it.

The historic Kane and Two Mile ranches on the Utah-Arizona border not only take in 850,000 acres – most of it in the form of federal grazing lands – but also some of the most flat-out astonishing scenery in all of the American West. Head south through the pines and meadows of the Kane Ranch and visitors are eventually deposited on the rim of the Grand Canyon. Go north into the twisting canyon country of the Two Mile and it doesn’t take long to get to the top of the Vermillion Cliffs, spitting distance from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Environmentalism and the New West
By Joe Baird
The Salt Lake Tribune

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