from: capitalpress.com
“When he’s not managing the ranch, running his farmland brokerage or performing with his bluegrass band, Scott Stone likes to watch the Swainson’s hawks and burrowing owls roaming his family’s Central Valley rangeland.
“The most we ever counted was 75,” Stone said on a recent morning while watching a group of hawks circle a nearby field. “It’s pretty cool.”
Building on a personal interest in land conservation, Stone and his family — he owns the Yolo Land and Cattle Co. with his father, Hank, and brother Casey — are gradually building a direct-to-consumer, grass-fed beef operation.”
Tags: conservation, Environment, Grass-fed Beef, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, NCBA, ranching, stewardship