Uprooted trees are jammed against my fence posts, tugging at the barbed wire, and the raging water is taking everything with it: power poles, machinery, sheds, homes. My creek, normally the width of a ditch, now stretches across the valley, bulldozing through the heavy spruce. All around me farm land is flooded, people evacuated, tractors […] Read more
Stories by Wendy Dudley
Song for wild mountain mustangs
LOVELL, Wyo. – When Alberta rancher and songwriter Ian Tyson was researching a new song about the survival of wild horses in North America, he decided to visit the source. His travels took him to the Pryor Mountain wild mustangs, a federally protected herd along the Montana-Wyoming border. About a day’s drive from Tyson’s ranch […] Read more
Topequine care, bar none
DE WINTON, Alta. – One of Canada’s top Thoroughbred training and breeding centres is keeping a nose ahead of the struggling horse racing industry by offering one-of-a-kind rehabilitation services. Bar None Ranches Ltd. recently bought a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, believed to be the only one used for horses in Canada. By infusing pure oxygen into […] Read more
