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Today we're sharing our conversation with western photographer and wrangler Della Frederickson. After graduating from Auburn University with a degree in Digital Marketing, this South Florida girl booked it to Wyoming, where she applied her horsewomenship skills as a wrangler at a guest ranch in the heart of Grand Teton National Park for several years, solidifying her love of ranch life and the landscapes of the American West. Since she took the leap out west in 2017, Della has spent more time in the saddle than not, often with her camera in hand. But as you'll hear in this conversation, she's not just a passive observer when she's out on these ranches, she's out there driving cattle, getting muddy on branding day, and pitching in however she can - all while capturing the hardworking people and the moments that have become central to her work and her life. Della's photography has been featured on the inside cover of Modern Huntsman and the cover of Jackson Hole Area Magazine, and soon to be featured in our Fall issue of On Land Magazine, so be sure to check it out! Her growing client list includes Stetson, Vermont Gloves, and more. Show Notes: https://onland.link/podcast

Today we are honored to share our conversation with the renowned Western photographer and fifth-generation Montana rancher Barbara Van Cleve. Barbara has spent her career photographing the American West, inspired largely by a lifetime spent on her family's ranch just east of the Crazy Mountains in southwest Montana.

For her entire life, Barbara Van Cleve has pushed up against the limits that society has imposed on women, especially in the rural West, choosing instead to forge her own path as a photographer of women in the West.

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Miah Chalfant is a rancher, contemporary ledger artist, and passionate communicator of her community's ways of life, both as a rancher and as an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.

Miah ranches with her family in southeast Montana, and is looking to study Agricultural Media and Communications as she heads off to college. Though still a young person herself, Miah is already supporting and educating the next generation of ranchers and farmers in her community, and she carries herself with a hopeful, determined attitude that is both refreshing and contagious.

She spoke with Western Landowners Alliance's Women in Ranching program director Amber Smith at Art of the Cowgirl in Bozeman, Montana.

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Becca Skinner is a photographer, writer, National Geographic Explorer, and farmer in the permaculture food forest at her home near Bozeman, Montana. As you'll hear in this episode, Becca started in adventure storytelling, but has since expanded her focus to include private land stewardship and sustainable food production, topics that are now central to her outlook and way of life.

As she wrote in a piece she co-authored in the inaugural issue of On Land, Becca describes herself as having a foot in two worlds: in one world there is the recreation-based environmentalist, in the other world there is the ranching family that works to sustain biodiversity and open landscapes while producing food for their community. Becca's journey parallels many people's, including my own. Despite our age of polarization, many folks in both of these communities are realizing they have more in common than they previously understood. Becca's work continues to bridge these two worlds, from the center.

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Having moved out to remote areas of Montana for work after college, Melissa DiNino found herself in places that were steeped in quiet contemplation. As a range rider, she worked at the heart of small ranching communities where she monitored cattle and tracked wolves and grizzlies by horseback. She learned how the resiliency of rural communities relies on its relationships - both human and non-human. When she began painting in 2018, she turned to the subject matter that was most familiar - the rural west and traditional ties to the landscape, but through a feminine lens.

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Nicole Masters is an independent agroecologist, systems thinker, educator and author of "For the love of soil." She has a formal background in ecology, soil science and organizational learning studies. She is one of a growing number of people who are facilitating the rapidly expanding world of quality food production and biological economies.

As you'll hear in this episode, Nicole will also be a keynote speaker at the Women in Ranching virtual Confluence this fall.

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Welcome to the first season of the On Land Podcast!

On this show we'll be bringing you thoughtful conversations with the people who are living and working on the land and shaping the future of stewardship in the American West.

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Kelsey Scott is a fourth generation rancher, artist, entrepreneur and leader in her community on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Like the open prairie she calls home, this conversation is an expansive look into Kelsey's relationship with the land.

Kelsey Scott (neé Ducheneaux) is the 4th generation of The DX Ranch on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. She is the owner of DX Beef, which offers locally raised beef for direct sale, and serves Project H3LP!, a nonprofit organization which utilizes horses to practice their Lifemanship philosophies with youth. Kelsey also works as the Natural Resources Director and Youth Programs Coordinator for the Intertribal Agriculture Council, which presents her with a unique opportunity to support the improvement of Indian lands for Indian peoples across the nation. Her father Zach Ducheneaux was recently appointed Administrator of the USDA Farm Service Agency.

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