Where is pitchfork ranch

The Pitchfork Ranch is a historic and important place to be restored and repurposed. Fostering improved habitat for wildlife is paramount for this "multi-purpose" ranch — aspiring to be an impact concern — with which, in view of the trifecta of crises — climate breakdown, species extinction and soil depletion — we hope to encourage others to pursue restoration and carbon sequestration.

Returning the land toward its pre-settlement condition, restoring and maintaining its natural processes, addressing these crises, pursuing new thinking about land health via agreement rather than argument are the goals. The off-grid Pitchfork Ranch is located an hour drive southwest of Silver City, New Mexico and has been in beef production since Jerimiah McDonald founded the ranch in This land later became central to Apacheria.

Paintings by the Red-Paint People are shown in the Archaeology sub-section of this section. Next, the Spanish used this land to graze sheep until their departure south after the Mexican-American War of We want the ranch to not only serve wildlife and preserve it for future generations, but also to encourage others to pursue habitat restoration. Natural-climate solutions increase photosynthesis, the only known way to capture the legacy load of excess carbon in the atmosphere, causing the climate and biodiversity crises that threaten to end civilization, as we know it.

Learn More. Although mountainous, this land is primarily rolling Chihuahuan grassland, one of the most biologically diverse arid regions in the world.

The Pitchfork home ranch covers , acres in Dickens and King counties near the town of Guthrie, Texas, with a satellite operation in Oklahoma. The Pitchfork is larger today than at any time in its history. In the Flag Ranch operation in Wyoming was sold.

At that time the Pitchfork ranch acquired more land in Texas. Although the Pitchfork's operations have expanded and modernized, its core business remains the same: cattle. The Pitchfork cattle herd is primarily Black and Black Baldie cows. Forest Trail Region. Forts Trail Region. Hill Country Trail Region. Independence Trail Region. Lakes Trail Region.

Mountain Trail Region. Pecos Trail Region. The ranch is located in Dickens and King counties, in addition to 3, acres in Benjamin, Texas, and 3, in the Flint Hills of Kansas. The Williams family descendants continue to operate the year old ranch in the same conservative manner as their founders with an emphasis on friendship and hospitality. Search Search.