Singleton Barn, Pilot Rock		"Anybody who has corrals or a ranch usually has plenty of gates to go through. So wouldn't you think … that that should be the most pleasant experience for an animal since you're gonna have to go through that damned gate for the rest of your life? And yet, that's where, when somebody starts to put cattle through … boy, if you can just bust 'em a couple of times with that whip. Well, you're just defeating what you’re trying to accomplish – and it happens time and time again. Wouldn't you think, instead of standing here and crackin' your whip, that maybe, you'd walk back over here someplace? So what if the animal takes an extra three minutes to get out of the corral. Most everybody goes around and gets behind the cattle when really where they ought to be is in front. I've just seen it happen time and time again with new cattle … I don't care if they're gonna run over ya, just open the gate and walk out in front of 'em and everything's just like Sunday … Just way better! " Harold Hunt, (b. 1926), Rancher, Retired Trinity Village

"You see that yellow stuff over there? That logging equipment is why we're still here. The reality is, that 300 cows isn't enough to make a living – putting three kids through college and having a reasonable standard of living. If it hadn't been for logging … You can always think of other things to do – the problem is, most of them are full time jobs. We already have one of those." Mark Moore (b. 1954), Rancher, Lone Star Ranch, Kneeland PREVIOUS PAGE [2]   |   NEXT PAGE [4]			Billy Thomas, Timber Faller
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