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Meat on the Menu
If there is meat on the menu, it’s often beef, pork or chicken. Perhaps there’s some lamb or turkey, but it’s rare to find this…
Tans and Mini Rex
Kelsie works in an industry where Tans and Mini Rex are her specialties. Do you know what she has on her farm?
Hagerman Fossil Beds
Many ranchers might have horses to round up their herd. But this rancher found the horses on his ranch were thousands of years old…..
Unusual Fenceposts
Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free. Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those fences and he began to…
Finding Ways to Water the Crops
You can plant a crop in the ground, but without water it will do very little. The farmers in this part of Nebraska knew they…
Mile Long Bridges Over Dry River Beds
When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed a span that stretched over…
Saint Gaudens National Historic Site
It’s New Hampshire’s only National Park Service site, named after the man who’s work it preserves…..
The Bottle Tree Ranch
Elmer Long doesn’t manage a national forest, but it may be the most unique collection of trees in the nation. He doesn’t have to plant…
Crossing a Bridge Every Two Years
Every two years the city of St. Louis gets an added route to cross the Mississippi River from Missouri to Illinois. It’s only open for…
A Bridge With a Curve
The development of not only cars, but roads themselves, has improved safety and lessened highway fatalities. But in the 1920s, building a mile long bridge…