Entries by David Jessup

Interview on KFKA

Use the player below to listen to a my recent interview with 1310 KFKA’s Tom and Devon. http://www.davidmjessup.com//media/KFKA-201210-interview-david-jessup-edit-vbr10.mp3 Download the audio

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Mariano’s Crossing Book Launch

I’m pleased that the launch of my historical novel, Mariano’s Crossing, was attended by over 100 people.  Thanks to all!  The event took place Friday, Oct. 12, 5:30 PM, at Anthology Book Company, 422 E. Fourth St. in Loveland. Download the poster I’ll be donating my part of the book sale proceeds to the Loveland […]

Promise, the Elk-chasing Cow Dog

By David Jessup She was supposed to be a companion dog for my wife, Linda.  Suburban-raised, well trained, affectionate, calm (the dog, that is).  A classic Australian Shepherd:  blue-black back, white collar, buff patches around brown eyes.  A polite dog.  She’d chase a ball to humor you, but nothing obsessive, like some Aussies we’ve known.  […]

Carbon Ranching—Don’t Treat Soil Like Dirt!

By David Jessup     First I thought we were cattle ranchers. Then I learned we were grass ranchers (the cattle are merely a way to get the grass to the bank). Then at a 2010 Quivira Coalition conference, I found out we are really carbon ranchers, of all things. Plants scrub the air of […]

Water Quality Improvement at Sylvan Dale Ranch

A Pilot Project of the Colorado Conservation Exchange  By David Jessup Can ranches and farms in the Poudre-Big Thompson watershed improve the quality of water used by Front Range urban dwellers?  That question is being addressed by a pilot project at Sylvan Dale Ranch, a 3,200-acre working guest ranch located at the mouth of the […]

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Troubled Teen Cattle Drive

By David Jessup There’s no such thing as a routine cattle drive.  Just ask the group of Sylvan Dale Ranch “adventure riders” who helped move sixty yearlings from their winter pasture back to the main ranch on Saturday, April 14, 2012. Seven of us saddled up at 9 am, the spring sun warming our faces, […]

Book Favorites – Peace Like a River

Peace Like a River, a novel by Leif Enger Eleven-year-old Reuben Land narrates this harrowing cross-country journey prompted by his older brother’s murder of a bully. Davy, the brother, becomes a fugitive. The rest of the family—father Jeremiah and Reuben’s younger sister Swede–set out from Minnesota to find him. We chewed our knuckles listening to […]

Book Favorites – The Work of Wolves

The Work of Wolves, a novel by Kurt Meyers Dakota rancher Carson Fielding is hired to train horses by land baron Magnus Yarborough and becomes entangled with Yarborough’s much younger wife. In revenge, the wealthy rancher sets out to slowly starve his wife’s horses to death. Fielding teams up with Lakota math whiz Earl Walks […]