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The historic Pitchfork Ranch is up for sale and its 96,000 acres of deeded and state and federally leased lands can all be yours for only $67 million. The cattle ranch sits in the Greybull River …

Though cattle ranchers are labeled the enemy of open space and wilderness, Wyoming's one hundred fifty square mile Pitchfork Ranch, has been providing hard evidence to the contrary for over a hundred years. This fascinating look at the Pichfork Ranch, tracks ranch manager Jack Turnell and his hands as they apply their own brand of 'cowboy science' to beef production and environmental conservation.

These reclusive mammals hunt prairie dogs in their burrows. In 1964 the black-footed ferret headed the list of endangered mammals prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The few that remained were thought to live in South Dakota. By the 1970s the animals appeared to be extinct. Then, in 1981 a ranch dog in northwestern Wyoming killed one. That led to the discovery of a colony of about 130 ferrets on the Pitchfork Ranch near Meeteetse. Jack Turnell managed the Pitchfork Ranch and became ...