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Chargement... Yamsipar Dayton O. Hyde
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Yamsi, a six-thousand-acre working cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Williamson River in Oregon's Klamath Basin, is the setting for Dayton Hyde's lively meditation on what it means to be a rancher in the West in the late twentieth century. In Yamsi, Hyde records a year on the ranch as the seasons change and the ranch work changes with them. Informed by a sense of responsibility toward those who lived and worked on the land before him - including the Klamath Indians who first called the land home - and those who might one day follow, Hyde struggles to run a family-owned cattle business in an age of corporate agriculture. Hard work and hardships at Yamsi coexist with a dedication to principles of conservation and sound ecology. Hyde describes his efforts to preserve the pine forests and marshes on his privately owned land - and to protect the owl, osprey, eagle, kingfisher, and sandhill crane that these environments support. For Hyde, extensive road building, timber harvests, and fire suppression on the public lands that surround his ranch demonstrate the increasingly important role of private agricultural land to conservation and wildlife. Ranch foreclosures and attacks on the environment have not disappeared in the 25 years since Yamsi was first published. Hyde's book was ahead of its time then; today its message is even more urgent. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Yamsi by Dayton O. Hyde
(1971, 1st ed.) 318 pages.
SETTING: Central Oregon
Dayton Ogden "Hawk" Hyde (March 25, 1925 – December 22, 2018) was an American “expository” author and nature conservationist who spent the majority of his life at the 6,000 acre Yamsi Ranch, which comprised the whole valley at the head of the Williamson River, near Chiloquin, Oregon. This book is loaded with black and white family and ranch photos.
“Yamsi” was the family’s 2nd generation cattle ranch the author had purchased from his Uncle Buck. “Yamsi” is a Klamath Indian word, which means ‘home of the north winds’, and is named after Yamsay Mountain in Klamath County, Oregon, where lava stones were hauled down to build the original ranch house in 1928.
Dayton lived through the transitional, and passing era, of cattle driving the 30 miles on his ranch and true cowboys roping newborn calves to be branded, cut and inoculated (if needed). He saw and knew the last of the Yamsi tribe. He brings you into his life as a rancher, sometimes with a sense of humor, from season to season, the endless chores, the debts incurred, and the unpredictable hired hands. After reading this, I’ve learned that being a cowboy was, and still is, one tough job. Definitely not a job for the lazy man.
Yamsi Ranch today continues to raise cattle holistically, still owned and ran by the Hyde family. It is privately owned and is now a wildlife sanctuary and earns extra money by providing accommodations for summertime vacationers especially interested in fly fishing (April 22-Oct 31), hiking or riding nature trails, birdwatching, kayaking or canoeing. If back then, it was becoming unrealistic to run a ranch on just raising and selling cattle, it must be even more so today. Dayton Hyde knew changes would have to be made for his ancestral ranch to survive, and it looks like his descendants have figured it out.
MORE ABOUT YAMSI RANCH
http://yamsiflyfishing.com/about/
OTHER NOTE
I felt he overused pronouns in just about every sentence, sometimes making his writing feel unnatural. But, he did get his points across, and I love his attitude and actions towards preserving the land as natural habitats for wildlife for future generations to enjoy. (