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Ranchlands Podcast
by Ranchlands
“Working together to live with the land.” For more than two decades, this credo has guided our work at Ranchlands. Our core business is cattle ranching, but over time it has grown to include education, art, hospitality, craftsmanship, and more. Our mission has evolved organically from our work with the land, and our vision has attracted a fascinating array of friends, partners, and collaborators–people whose work extends far beyond the world of mainstream ranching. The Ranchlands Podcast features conversations with members of our community– discussions about our shared connection to the land, stewardship of natural resources, the pursuit of purpose-driven work, lessons learned, and wisdom earned.
Episodes
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#42 - Terry Gardner on Rejoicing in the West Through Painting
Terry Gardner is an artist who has been involved with Ranchlands for almost 10 years. He is originally from St. Louis where he had a career balancing commercial and fine art. He was influenced early on by old westerns on tv and in film, gaining a love and appreciation for the American West. After...
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#41 - Colorful Living with Janelle Pietrzak
Janelle Pietrzak is a weaver who lives a colorful life in the Mojave desert of California. Along with her partner Robert, who is a welder, she cofounded and runs a shop named All Roads, where they sell an assortment of their handmade textiles, metalwork, and more. Janelle and Robert focus on…
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#40 - Ranchlands then and now with Duke Phillips III
In today's episode of the Ranchlands Podcast, Jonathan sits down with Duke Phillips to discuss what Ranchlands really is. While it might seem like an obvious question, there are actually so many layers to what we do. On the surface we are a land management company that uses cattle as a tool for...
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#39 - Hunting, Conservation, and Human Nature with Bruce McGlenn
Bruce McGlenn has nearly 40 years of bird and big game hunting experience in the Pacific Northwest. He is the owner and founder of Human Nature Hunting, a business that offers courses on hunting and foraging with an emphasis on the experiences and personal growth that accompany sourcing healthy...
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#38 - Managing Resources with Kirk Gadzia
Kirk Gadzia is a longtime friend of Ranchlands' CEO Duke Phillips, as well as an educator to countless Ranchlands employees. He is the founder of Resource Management Services, a New Mexico based consulting, training and monitoring organization committed to helping private and professional…
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#37 - Land Monitoring with Dr. Caitlin Youngquist
Dr. Caitlin Younquist is Director of Science and Education for Snaplands, an environmental consulting company that helps land managers maximize long term profit and healthy ecosystems by providing and interpreting rangeland data. We first met Caitlin in 2021 while she was serving as our local...
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#36 - People of Ranchlands: Madi Phillips
Madi Phillips is the leather shop manager for Ranchlands. She was born and raised in the Midwest, was a wrangler at Zapata Ranch, and moved to the Chico Basin Ranch in 2013. Madi has been involved in Ranchlands' leather shop since its infancy and has helped it grow over the past 10 years to where...
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#35 - People of Ranchlands: Jonathan Tullar
Jonathan Tullar first joined Ranchlands back in 2009, and he has played an integral role in almost every aspect of Ranchlands' businesses. He is currently the Foreman of the Wyoming Paint Rock Ranch, and he has extensive experience with Ranchlands' New Mexico and Colorado operations. In addition…
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#34 - People of Ranchlands: Lynae Risinger
Lynae Risinger is a ranch management apprentice and currently manages the MP Ranch in New Mexico. She started as a ranch intern three years ago on the MP and spent eight months on the Paintrock Canyon Ranch before moving back to the MP, where she has been ever since. She is proud to call New…
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#33 - People of Ranchlands: Oliver Tautkus
Oliver Tautkus is a ranch apprentice on Ranchlands' Paintrock Ranch, our 80,000-acre ranch located on the western flank of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. Prior to working at the Paintrock, he was an intern down in Texas on our Frying Pan Ranch. Oliver made his way to Ranchlands all the way from his...
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#32 - The Conservation Value of Working Lands with Lesli Allison
This is a special podcast episode that features a conversation between the Executive Director of Western Landowners Alliance, Lesli Allison, and Ranchlands' founder and CEO, Duke Phillips III. Western Landowners Alliance– also known as WLA– is an organization of landowners, natural resource...
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#31 - The Audacity of a Creative Vision with Photographer Parker Fitzgerald
Parker Fitzgerald is a photographer and director. He co-founded a Portland-based creative studio with his brother, and they've combined their expertise in design, strategy, and visual media to work with an impressive range of clients–from behemoths like Nike and Honda to more niche brands like...
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#30 - The Process of Groundbreaking Photojournalism with Helen Richardson
Helen Richardson is a photojournalist who has been working at the Denver Post for more than thirty years. Over the course of her long and successful career, she's covered everything from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Southeast Asia Christmas Tsunami to all of the major Colorado wildfires…
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#29 - People of Ranchlands: Mike Giordano
Mike Giordano is a Ranch Apprentice at the Frying Pan Ranch, a Ranchlands operation located outside of Amarillo, Texas. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Mike grew up with horses and spent much of his teens and all of his college years playing competitive polo. Upon graduation from college, Mike...
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#28 - Then and Now: An Environmental History of North America with Dan Flores
Dan Flores is an environmental writer whose work helps us better understand the complex and fascinating history of people, animals, and wild places in North America and beyond. He's the author of eleven books, including Coyote America and American Serengeti, and he has appeared everywhere from…
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#27 - Conservation and birding with Tammy VerCauteren
Tammy VerCauteren is the Executive Director of The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, a highly effective conservation organization whose mission is to "conserve birds and their habitats through science, education and land stewardship." Tammy joined the Bird Conservancy in 1999 as an ecologist,...
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#26 - Painting the West with Teal Blake
Teal Blake is a renowned Western artist whose paintings reflect his deep love and appreciation for the tradition of ranching and cowboying. Teal was born and raised in Montana, and he's spent most of his life entrenched in the worlds of horses, cattle, and ranch life. He's worked as a…
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#25 - The art of leatherwork at Colorado Correctional Industries
For this week's episode, Ranchlands' leather shop manager Madi Phillips and Ed headed to Sterling, Colorado, where they sat down with Freddy Z and Duncan Clarke to discuss leatherwork, craftsmanship, and the art of creating useful and beautiful leather goods by hand. Learn more about CCI here....
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#24 - People of Ranchlands: Exploring the world on horseback from Argentina to Wyoming with Lauren O'Toole
Lauren O'Toole joined the team at Ranchlands back in 2021 when she was hired to work as a Wrangler at the Zapata Ranch. Over the past three years, her role at Ranchlands has continued to evolve, and she's currently the Events Coordinator for some of our newest ranch vacation offerings, including...
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#23 - The History of the Zapata Ranch with Nancy Fishbein
Nancy Fishbein is the Director Resilient Lands for the Colorado Program of The Nature Conservancy. Nancy's team is responsible for protecting and stewarding critical lands across the state, as well as ensuring the Chapter's alignment with the land protection goals of TNC's Shared Conservation...
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#22 - People of Ranchlands: Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor is a ranch apprentice at the Chico Basin Ranch, where he plays an integral role in the success of the 89,000-acre cattle operation. Born and raised outside of Fort Worth, Texas, Dylan had no ranching experience before coming to Ranchlands. In fact, much of his early career was spent…
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#21 - GL Richardson
GL Richardson is a Santa Fe-based painter who translates the rawness, iconography, and motifs of the American West into consequential work that speaks to broader human truths. GL grew up loving art, but as he moved through school, his focus shifted away from painting and toward building a career…
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#20 - Mike Eli LoPinto
Upstate New York's own, Mike Eli LoPinto moved to Nashville on a drunken New Years Eve bet in 2012, from Boone, NC, where he attended Appalachian State University. For the last 10 years he has been on the road, in support of artists which include Nikki Lane, Lilly Hiatt, and Whitey Morgan. He is...
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Duke Phillips III: Introducing the Ranchlands Collective
We welcome our founder, Duke Phillips III, back to the podcast to discuss the newest project at Ranchlands: the Collective. The Collective, launching May 1st, is a new opportunity to become a member of Ranchlands and gain deeper access to our mission of perpetuating ranching into the future via...
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#19 - Dr. Bonney MacDonald
Dr. Bonney MacDonald is a Professor of Western Literature at West Texas A&M University. Bonney's credentials are as extensive as they are impressive– she holds a B.A. in English and a B.A. in psychology from California State University, an M.A. in American studies from the University of…
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#18 - Helen Levi
Helen Levi is an artist, potter, photographer, and the owner of Helen Levi Ceramics. Based out of her studio in Queens, New York, Helen produces small-batch dinnerware and pottery that is as unique and beautiful as it is functional. Her ceramics have been featured everywhere from New York…
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#17 - Lucia Guzman
Senator Lucía Guzmán is a lifelong leader and public servant. Born and raised in Texas by immigrant parents, Lucía has led an inspirational life. She studied theology and became an ordained minister, served for many years on the Denver School Board, and served as a Colorado State Senator from…
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#16 - Molly Wizenberg
Molly Wizenberg is the author of three memoirs, including her most recent book titled "The Fixed Stars." She also created the James Beard-award-winning food blog Orangette and now writes a Substack newsletter called I've Got a Feeling. And on top of all that, she's a wife, a mother of two, and…
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#15 - Johnny Ortiz-Concha
Johnny Ortiz-Concha is a chef, artist, and the creator of /shed, an intimate, one-of-a-kind dinner project based in his hometown of Taos, New Mexico. Johnny grew up on the Taos Pueblo and dropped out of college to pursue his dreams of a career devoted to cooking and food. After working in some of...
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#14 - Alejandro Carrillo
Alejandro Carrillo is the owner of the Las Damas Ranch located in Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert. Before becoming a full-time rancher, Alejandro enjoyed a successful career as an IT consultant. But in 2004, he made the decision to leave the software industry and join his family's ranching business....
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#13 - Mike Forsberg
Conservation photographer and storyteller Mike Forsberg has devoted much of his career to telling stories from North America's Great Plains, and his work has been recognized by many well-known organizations, including Audubon, National Geographic, and the Nature Conservancy. He's the author and...
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#12 - Wendy Millet
Wendy Millet is the Ranch Director at TomKat Ranch, a 1,800-acre grass-fed cattle ranch located on the California Coast. Wendy has devoted her entire career to conservation and land stewardship, serving in various capacities at well-known conservation organizations such as The Nature Conservancy...
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#11 - Nicole Masters
On today's episode, our guest is the agroecologist, systems thinker, educator, and author Nicole Masters. Originally from New Zealand, Nicole is one of the most well-respected voices on soil health and ecologically responsible grazing practices. She is also the author of the excellent book For…
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"What Zapata Means to Me" by Jill Soukup
Jill Soukup reads her short essay, "What Zapata Means to Me," featured on the Ranchlands Journal. Jill Soukup is a celebrated artist and long time friend of Ranchlands. She has been teaching her drawing and painting workshop at the Zapata Ranch for the past 8 years, and visiting the Chico and...
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#10 - Jill Soukup
On today's episode, Ed connects with the great artist Jill Soukup for a conversation about everything from her professional journey as an artist, to her love of teaching, to the diverse set of influences that fuel her creativity. Jill has been a long-standing member of the Ranchlands community…
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#09 - People of Ranchlands: Kate Matheson
For this week's episode, Ed headed over to the Nature Conservancy's Zapata Ranch in Colorado's San Luis Valley where he met up with Kate Matheson. Kate is the manager of the Zapata Ranch for Ranchlands, and she is also our Director of Hospitality and PR. Originally from England, Kate enjoyed a...
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#08 - Q&A with Duke Phillips IV
This is another Q&A episode, this time with the questions being answered by Duke Phillips IV. All of these questions were either submitted via social media or through our podcast-specific email address, [email protected]. Duke answers a wide range of questions, including some specific...
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#07 - Cam Schryver
For today's podcast, Ed sat down with legendary horseman Cam Schryver. Cam has been a great friend of Ranchlands for many years, and he is widely regarded as one of the premiere horsemen in the country. For many years, Cam was the head of the horsemanship program at the world-renowned Thatcher...
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Essay #04 - "Querencia" by Molly Baldrige
We're excited to bring you another essay episode, this one featuring our friend and past podcast guest Molly Baldrige. You may remember from our discussion in Episode 6 that Molly wrote a wonderful essay titled "Querencia," which details her deep connection to the MP Ranch. In this short episode,...
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#06 - Molly Baldrige
For today's episode, Duke IV and Ed had the great pleasure of sitting down with Molly Baldrige, who is the owner of the MP Ranch. Located in the rocky juniper pinon hills of central New Mexico cattle country, the MP Ranch has been an important part of Molly's family history for decades. And as...
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Essay #03 - "Beefmasters: The Bull" by Brandon Sickel
This is the third of three special episodes that we are fitting in between our regular interview-style conversations. You may remember from Episode 5–which featured a conversation between Duke IV and ranch apprentice Brandon Sickel–that Brandon is a talented writer who has written extensively for...
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Essay #02 - "Beefmasters: The Fertile Cow" by Brandon Sickel
This is the second of three special episodes that we are fitting in between our regular interview-style conversations. You may remember from Episode 5–which featured a conversation between Duke IV and ranch apprentice Brandon Sickel–that Brandon is a talented writer who has written extensively…
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Essay #01 - "Beefmasters: A Philosophy Embodied" by Brandon Sickel
This is the first of three special episodes that we are fitting in between our regular interview-style conversations. You may remember from Episode 5–which featured a conversation between Duke IV and ranch apprentice Brandon Sickel–that Brandon is a talented writer who has written extensively for...
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#05 - People of Ranchlands: Brandon Sickel
For this week's episode, I headed out to the Chico Basin Ranch to sit down with Duke IV and ranch apprentice Brandon Sickel for a conversation about Ranchlands' intern and apprenticeship program. Brandon has been working with us for nearly five years– he started out as a summer intern at the…
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#04 - Duke Beardsley
For the fourth episode of the Ranchlands Podcast, Duke III and I headed up to Denver to meet with our friend and renowned artist Duke Beardsley. Beardsley is a sixth-generation Coloradan who grew up splitting time between Denver and his family's eastern Colorado cattle ranch. For as long as he…
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#03 - Q&A with Duke Phillips III
Every so often, we're going to record episodes dedicated exclusively to Questions and Answers– episodes that will offer an opportunity for listeners to engage directly with the Ranchlands community. We're planning to have Q&A sessions with members of the Ranchlands leadership team, interns,...
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#02 - People of Ranchlands: Tess Leach & Duke Phillips IV
For our second episode, we're going to introduce you to the next generation of Ranchlands– Duke's children Tess Leach and Duke Phillips IV. Officially, Tess is the Head of Business Development and Duke is the Chief Operating Officer, but those titles fail to capture the all-encompassing...
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#01 - People of Ranchlands: Duke Phillips III
For the inaugural episode of the Ranchlands Podcast, it only makes sense to sit down and chat with the man who started it all– Duke Phillips III, the Founder and CEO of Ranchlands. More than 20 years ago and with only 35 cows to his name, Duke moved his family to the Chico Basin Ranch located on...
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Coming Soon: The Ranchlands Podcast
"Working together to live with the land." For more than two decades, this credo has guided our work at Ranchlands. Our core business is cattle ranching, but over time it has grown to include education, art, hospitality, craftsmanship, and more. Our mission has evolved organically from our work…
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“Working together to live with the land.” For more than two decades, this credo has guided our work at Ranchlands. Our core business is cattle ranching, but over time it has grown to include education, art, hospitality, craftsmanship, and more. Our mission has evolved organically from our work with the land, and our vision has attracted a fascinating array of friends, partners, and collaborators–people whose work extends far beyond the world of mainstream ranching. The Ranchlands Podcast features conversations with members of our community– discussions about our shared connection to the land, stewardship of natural resources, the pursuit of purpose-driven work, lessons learned, and wisdom earned.
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