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UNWON with Keely Covello
by Keely Covello
Underdog journalism from working, rural, and Western America. www.americaunwon.com
Episodes
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Butcher Girl: Sierra Anthony Teaches the Forgotten Craft Bridging America’s Ranches & Kitchens
In this episode of UNWON, Keely Covello sits down with Sierra Anthony of Butcher Solutions, LLC in Three Forks, Montana. Sierra is a meat scientist, butcher educator, and competitive butcher. They talk about the forgotten craft that connects livestock producers to consumers. Sierra grew up in…
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Ranch Beat: This week in cattle country, the lactating steer panic and Trump's 300,000 ton beef deal
It’s been quite a week in cattle country. A viral headline said one in five steers in American feedlots is lactating. Then the president announced 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef is coming in at 25% below market. We’re diving into all of it on this episode of Ranch Beat. Sponsored by Ranch...
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Farmer in the House: Congressman James Gallagher on Prop 50, Wolves, and Saving Potter Valley
Congressman James Gallagher (CA-1) joins UNWON six weeks after being sworn in to finish the late Doug LaMalfa’s term. Now he's running in a district Prop 50 redrew to beat him, against the state senator he says helped draw it. We talk about what he's learned in Washington, the water bill he's...
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Raw Milk Revolution: Kevin Muno Just Opened the First Dairy in Southern California in 30 Years
The United States had 131,000 dairy farms in 1992. Today, we have just 23,600. San Diego County alone went from more than 100 dairies to one.Kevin Muno just made it two.He is a first generation producer, a former college baseball player with no agricultural background, and he built the only...
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Warden: Lt. John Nores on Fighting the Secret Cartel War in America’s Woods
Retired Lt. John Nores spent 28 years as a California game warden, and most of that career fighting a hidden war most Americans don’t know exists. In 2005, he was ambushed by cartel gunmen in the mountains above Silicon Valley. His partner took an AK-47 round through both legs and nearly bled out...
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The Read: What Happened to the Point Reyes Ranchers?
By August 1, the last two ranching families in the infamous Point Reyes buyout will be gone. Keely Covello has covered this story since January of 2025. More than 18 months, close to 20 articles, interviews with the ranchers, ecologists, attorneys, and neighbors watching a 150-year-old community...
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Fighting for California with Steve Hilton
Steve Hilton is running to restore California’s unique spirit. The Republican nominee for governor says his campaign isn’t partisan; he believes government should get the basics right—roads, schools, public safety, water—then leave people alone. He calls it the rebel spirit: the soul of a state...
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Ranch Beat: Why Trump's Endangered Species Act change could transform ranching, logging, and energy
On Friday, the Trump administration finalized the biggest change to the Endangered Species Act in decades: the federal government will no longer treat habitat modification as "harm" to protected species. In this episode of Ranch Beat, learn what actually changed, why supporters call it the end of...
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The Read: Who invited Big Wind and Solar to Casey Murph's ranch?
The first episode of The Read, the new UNWON segment where I narrate my investigative reporting straight from the page, no cuts. We open with “Pay to Play,” an investigation into REAL AZ Economic Development Group: a Navajo County, Arizona nonprofit run by sitting county officials, out of county...
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Ranch Beat: New World Screwworm Is Back
The flesh-eating parasite the U.S. wiped out 60 years ago is back across the border, and suddenly everyone has a PhD in parasitology. This episode of Ranch Beat covers the facts: what New World Screwworm actually is, how it clawed its way back up through Central America and Mexico, steps the USDA...
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POINT REYES RANCHER TAKES ON HUFFMAN: Nicolette Niman Is Running to Represent the People Jared Huffman Forgot
Nicolette Hahn Niman has one of the more unusual biographies in American public life: environmental lawyer, former vegetarian, cattle rancher, Nobel Week speaker, author of Defending Beef, Point Reyes Seashore resident, and now, a congressional candidate challenging seven-term incumbent Jared...
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GOVERNOR FOR RURAL CALIFORNIA: Chad Bianco on Water, Fire, Cartels & Taking California Back
00:00 Introduction02:00 California's politician-made water crisis07:15 What rural California actually looks like10:30 Why Bianco chose California — and why he's fighting to keep it13:35 Small-town Utah roots and what shaped him15:47 Over-regulation destroying rural industries18:30 The decision to...
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CARROT COWBOY: Justin Pettit of Santa Carota Is Taking on the Industry
Justin Pettit is a third-generation cattle rancher in Bakersfield, California, where the West has never quite been won. Nine years ago, he developed a novel premium beef product. His carrot-finished beef was soon in demand among customers seeking a prime-graded grass-finished option as well as...
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WHO WOULD WANT THE POTTER VALLEY DAMS? Meet Darcy Burke of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District
Darcy Burke is vice president of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and a longtime California water professional. She was also featured in the tweet heard around Lake, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties on Monday, when USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a potential buyer has emerged…
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FIGHTING BIG SOLAR with Alexandra Fasulo: One Farmer vs. the Industry Erasing Upstate New York
America’s farmland is being destroyed in the name of green energy. Alexandra Fasulo is doing something about it. Alex is an influencer, entrepreneur, first generation farmer, and accidental activist. Not long after buying a farm in her home state of New York, a neighbor told her about a...
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RANCH BEAT: We Must Rebuild the American Cattle Herd
Today, Dr. Rich Brazil and Grace Brazil join Keely for a discussion on the future of the U.S. cattle herd, which currently sits at a 75-year low even as consumer demand for beef skyrockets. Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently made waves with his comments asking...
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RANCH BEAT: What You Should Know About EHV-1 with Dr. Rich Brazil
In this special Ranch Beat episode, Dr. Rich Brazil joins me to lend his insight on the current outbreak of Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) canceling major events across the horse world. He answers your questions like: What is EHV-1? Is there a vaccine? How does it spread? What are early symptoms?…
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Mexican Gray Wolf: Crisis in the Southwest with Tate Bennett
Ranchers in the American Southwest are dealing with an escalating threat. The Mexican gray wolf has become an increasing liability to ranchers and residents of Arizona and New Mexico. “Wolves have killed our cattle in Arizona and in New Mexico. Wolves have changed our culture. They have changed…
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Maude Update: Heather Maude on How Bureaucracy is Killing Ranching
Six months after the press conference in D.C. where Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced criminal charges against the Maudes had been dropped, Heather fills us in on what’s happened to her family since and answers your questions. We discuss what it has been like working with Secretary...
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Lawman of the Emerald: Sheriff Matt Kendall on Cartels, Weed, and Water Wars
Today I am speaking with Matt Kendall, sheriff of Mendocino County in California’s infamous Emerald Triangle, the epicenter of black market marijuana production. Sheriff Kendall blows the lid off some of the most under-covered and shocking stories in the U.S. today. Cartels are running rampant on...
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Dam DISASTER with Theodora Johnson: Water, Wolves, and Ranching on the Klamath River
Theodora Johnson is a cattle rancher and mom of three, born, raised, and still ranching in Siskiyou County, California. She’s also an award-winning journalist; one of the few who covered the reality of the infamous Klamath Dam removals that California governor Gavin Newsom has touted as a major...
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Country Music with J.B. Zielke: Six-Continent Cowboy
J.B. Zielke is a world-traveling cowboy, author, and the host of the latest and greatest event on the Western music scene: Dusty Vaquero Days in Gillette, Wyoming, set to launch its inaugural weekend this Friday and Saturday (May 30-31). I met J.B. years ago. He set me a pre-release copy of his...
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Heather Maude: Fighting for the American Dream
Heather Maude is finally free to speak about her case and what the federal government put her family through. Her case has been called "private property rights precedent-setting issue of a generation.” After covering the Maude family’s case for close to a year, I was finally able to sit down with...
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Grand Canyon Mules with Casey Murph: Keeping the West Alive
Casey Murph is a consummate Westerner, a man out of his time but here to remind us about the old ways and the things that still matter. For many years, he led the mule string at the Grand Canyon and now runs cattle on his family’s historic ranch in Navajo County, Arizona. He’s a regular writer…
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Dam Removal with E.J. Crandell: A Voice for California's Rural & Tribal Communities
Eddie “E.J.” Crandell has deep roots in Lake County, California, where he serves as chairman of the county board of supervisors and vice chair of the Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians. On Friday, Supervisor Crandell generously made time for an interview between meetings. I wanted to ask about…
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NATIONAL AG DAY: Trailer for "You Just Can't See Them From the Road"
In honor of National Ag Day, I’m beyond excited to share the trailer for a film project very close to my heart. You Just Can’t See Them From the Road is my first full-length documentary. My sister Michaela and I had been wanting to shoot a film on the vanishing ranches of the American West for…
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Grazing with Nate Chisholm: From Kenya to Point Reyes
Nate Chisholm is a grazing ecologist and rancher currently based in Kenya, where he is studying the impact of megafauna on savanna grassland ecosystems. For years, he ranched in Marin and Sonoma counties, including Point Reyes. He has amassed a decade of scientific research on the impact of…
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Dairy with Albert Straus: Saving Local Ag & the Point Reyes Ranchers
Albert Straus is a legend in organic farming and the regenerative food movement. He is the founder of Straus Family Creamery, the oldest certified organic creamery in the United States. He has been an outspoken advocate and champion for the farmers and ranchers on Point Reyes, fighting tirelessly...
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Forestry with Craig Blencowe: Saving America's Forests
It was a real honor to speak with private forestry consultant Craig Blencowe, a leader in sustainable forest management. I asked Craig about timberland management, fire prevention, what’s changed in the American timber industry, spotted owls, bark beetles, what has gone wrong at the U.S. Forest...
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