Bison on the high plains at Elk Mountain Ranch in remote Wyoming.

Young Jessi Johnson helped her parents care for calves when mother cows were unable to provide adequate milk.

Preserving the health of local watershed systems is a priority in environmentally sensitive ranching.

We’ve spent two decades managing ranch and farm operations sustainably and profitably in California, Montana, and Wyoming.

We believe that sustainable land management practices are good for the landowner, good for livestock, and good for the environment. Wherever we have applied our sustainable land management practices we have improved soil qualities and animal health while raising property values.

Sustainable ranching and land management practices we advocate include:

• When possible, fence off waterways from livestock;
• Using crop rotation to enhance soil health;
• Improving habitat for state and federal threatened and endangered species;
• Use pesticides and herbicides with extreme caution and whenever possible apply non-lethal methods to control invasive weed species;
• Managing animals to reduce stress-related illnesses;
• Improving groundwater hydrology by maintaining healthy wetlands.

After years of managing livestock, we have come to believe strongly in managing animals in a style that benefits the ranch as it relates to a complete ecosystem.

"Sid and Jenny Johnson have a deep understanding of how to manage land for the benefit of people without harming the surrounding ecosystem. They are great collaborators, strategic thinkers, and all-around great folks." - Curtis Knight, California Trout