Rowell Ranch News Today

Although it is nowhere near the most heralded natural space in the Bay Area, the Ohlone Regional Wilderness trail is, in its own way, unique - a 27-mile jaunt through the wilderness, accessible by public transportation, in the heart of the densely populated East Bay.

Although it is nowhere near the most heralded natural space in the Bay Area, the Ohlone Regional Wilderness trail is, in its own way, unique - a 27-mile jaunt through the wilderness, accessible by public transportation, in the heart of the densely populated East Bay.

Rowell Ranch is host to many rodeos in the Bay Area including one long-standing event that is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo.

Rodeos are in the crosshairs of legislators across California. Have the culture wars incorporated this American past time, too?

Wild cow milking is a rodeo event that involves separating a distressed, lactating mother cow from her calf and forcing her into a loud and bright arena.

Peggy W. Larson, DVM MS JD

Eric Mills, Action for Animals

Eric Mills, Action for Animals

Eric Mills, Coordinator, Action for Animals Both the Livermore and Rowell Ranch rodeos feature a brutal, sometimes fatal and blatantly sexist event called the Wild Cow Milking Contest. The cows are still lactating BEEF cattle, not dairy. As such, they are unused to being handled at all, much less this roughly. One of these frantic cows jumped the fence at the 2014 Rowell Ranch Rodeo, and suffered a broken neck and prolapsed eye. Another broke a leg at the 2004 Livermore rodeo. Both were euthani...