Product Description: Now in paperback, this engaging narrative of one woman’s season alone in the Wyoming backcountry with her dogs, burros, and flock of sheep brings life on the range and its place in a larger world into vivid relief. Cat Urbigkit spends a season on Wyoming’s open range, tending to a flock of domestic sheep as they give birth amid the challenges of nature―from severe weather to a wealth of predators...read more

Product Description: Guardian dogs help ranchers protect their flock. Like other livestock in the Rocky Mountains, sheep need protection from coyotes, wolves, and other predators. To address this, ranchers have imported guardian dogs from Europe, where the best breeds have sheltered livestock for thousands of years...read more

Product Description: Guardian dogs help ranchers protect their flock. Like other livestock in the Rocky Mountains, sheep need protection from coyotes, wolves, and other predators. To address this, ranchers have imported guardian dogs from Europe, where the best breeds have sheltered livestock for thousands of years...read more

Product Description: Yellowstone Wolves provides a unique perspective on what is one of the most visible and contentious wildlife management experiments taking place in the American West today. It is a review of the discovery, persecution, and possible survival of the native wolves of the northern Rocky Mountains of the United States; it is a detailed chronicle of the debate over the legality and propriety of introducing wolves from Canada into Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho during the mid-1990s; and it is an account of the spread of the released Canadian wolves from Yellowstone and central Idaho into surrounding areas and the tensions created by these movements...read more

Product Description: A fascinating look at a unique way of life. A wagon sits in the sagebrush-covered desert, while herders on horseback move sheep to high summer range. It looks like a scene from the Old West, but it's actually a sight you can see today...read more

Page after page of full-color illustrations and simple text capture an ensemble of adorable puppies as they play, prance, and bounce together! By the author of A Young Shepherd.

A fascinating glimpse of the hard yet rewarding life led by Cass, a young shepherd of a farm in Wyoming, shows how, from when the sheep are born in the spring until winter when their wool grows long, Cass makes sure the sheep get good shelter, food, water, and protection from disease and predators.

Simple text and expressive photographs demonstrate how guardian dogs--in breeds imported from Europe--are raised with sheep and instinctively know that there job is to protect the herd from predatory animals among the Rocky Mountains.