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Nobody really likes uncertainty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ranchers have strongly objected to the government's management of federal lands, especially over issues of water or environmental conservation, and to the terms of their leases. Cliven Bundy, for his part, grazed his cattle on federal lands and refused to pay grazing fees. The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada\">still hasn't collected the more than $1 million he owes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension is heightened by how much land the federal government continues to own in the Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YYiqiugnaq6ydNcKqZyfXmTKNTC5Vm8y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf\">the Congressional Research Service\u003c/a>, in Nevada the U.S. owned more than 81 percent of the land in the state in 2010. In Oregon, that number hovered right around half — 53 percent of the land, more than 30 million acres of which were administered by either the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact is, it's a paradox being a rugged individualist dependent on the government — unless you're John Wayne,\" Robbins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a paradox that Dwight and Steven Hammond chafed at for decades — and one that drew them off the ranch and into the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Hammonds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The animus harbored by the two Hammond men for federal land agencies dates back decades. Both reportedly were arrested for obstructing federal officials in 1994 — in protest of which \"nearly 500 incensed ranchers showed up at a rally in Burns,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcn.org/issues/20/582\">according to High Country News\u003c/a>. But even before that, the Hammonds bristled at the authority of managers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Dwight] Hammond allegedly made death threats against previous managers in 1986 and 1988 and against [Forrest] Cameron, the current manager, in 1991 and again this year,\" High Country News reported in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of the current situation were sown in 2001 and 2006. In both those years, the U.S. government said the Hammonds set fires that spread onto land managed by the BLM. The 2001 blaze burned 139 acres of public land, according to court documents; the 2006 fire — for which only Steven was convicted — burned an additional acre of public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arson convictions for both father and son were handed down in 2012. Much of the dispute in the years afterward — including, eventually, this weekend's armed occupation — revolves around the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ132/html/PLAW-104publ132.htm\">Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996\u003c/a>, which increased the penalties for arson committed against federal property, the mandatory minimum punishment for such crimes was upped to five years in federal prison. The law, which was passed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, struck the judge presiding over the sentencing as too harsh — and off-base in this instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just would not be — would not meet any idea I have of justice, proportionality,\" U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan \u003ca href=\"http://landrights.org/or/Hammond/Transcript%20of%20Judges%20ruling.pdf\">said at the sentencing\u003c/a>. \"I am not supposed to use the word 'fairness' in criminal law. 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The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-militia-oregon-20160103-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hammonds surrendered\u003c/a> to prison authorities on Monday in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What's Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Whatever their continued friction with federal officials, the Hammonds have not publicly condoned the self-styled militia members who claim to be interceding on their behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Hammonds' attorney has previously stated the militiamen showing up in Burns do not represent the ranchers,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/burns-oregon-standoff-militia/\">Oregon Public Broadcasting reports\u003c/a>, noting that many locals in Burns have also received the out-of-towners warily — with several \"Militia Go Home\" fliers posted throughout the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/amandapeacher/status/683741037207007232\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Cliven Bundy, Ammon's father, expressed his hesitation over the protests. \"I don't quite understand how much they're going to accomplish,\" Bundy told OPB. \"I think of it this way: What business does the Bundy family have in Harney County, Oregon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, that has not dissuaded Ammon Bundy or the group with which he's holed up in the Malheur refuge headquarters. At a press conference there, Bundy said his plan may take \"several months at the shortest to accomplish.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday, law enforcement \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/militia-oregon-wildlife-refuge-burns-bundy-hammond/\">had not attempted\u003c/a> to remove the armed group from the federal building, OPB reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their last name may ring a bell. Ammon and Ryan Bundy are sons of rancher Cliven Bundy, who notably \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada\">took part in an armed standoff\u003c/a> with the federal Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, in Nevada in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammon Bundy now is part of a group of 15 to 150 people — \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/militiamen-break-into-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-building/\">depending on which source you believe\u003c/a> — who are protesting the arson convictions of two Oregon ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son, Steven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>why \u003c/em>exactly are a Nevada rancher's son and his supporters taking up the cause of two guys from Oregon? What is the source of the continued friction between many ranchers and the federal government? What does a 20-year-old terrorist attack in Oklahoma City have to do with all of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>The Background\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The situation began, in some ways, in the decades following the Civil War. The 1862 Homestead Act granted 160 acres of land to the people willing to settle it. Ranchers in some regions needed far more land than that to be profitable. 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Nobody really likes uncertainty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ranchers have strongly objected to the government's management of federal lands, especially over issues of water or environmental conservation, and to the terms of their leases. Cliven Bundy, for his part, grazed his cattle on federal lands and refused to pay grazing fees. The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada\">still hasn't collected the more than $1 million he owes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension is heightened by how much land the federal government continues to own in the Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf\">the Congressional Research Service\u003c/a>, in Nevada the U.S. owned more than 81 percent of the land in the state in 2010. In Oregon, that number hovered right around half — 53 percent of the land, more than 30 million acres of which were administered by either the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact is, it's a paradox being a rugged individualist dependent on the government — unless you're John Wayne,\" Robbins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a paradox that Dwight and Steven Hammond chafed at for decades — and one that drew them off the ranch and into the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Hammonds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The animus harbored by the two Hammond men for federal land agencies dates back decades. Both reportedly were arrested for obstructing federal officials in 1994 — in protest of which \"nearly 500 incensed ranchers showed up at a rally in Burns,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcn.org/issues/20/582\">according to High Country News\u003c/a>. But even before that, the Hammonds bristled at the authority of managers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Dwight] Hammond allegedly made death threats against previous managers in 1986 and 1988 and against [Forrest] Cameron, the current manager, in 1991 and again this year,\" High Country News reported in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of the current situation were sown in 2001 and 2006. In both those years, the U.S. government said the Hammonds set fires that spread onto land managed by the BLM. The 2001 blaze burned 139 acres of public land, according to court documents; the 2006 fire — for which only Steven was convicted — burned an additional acre of public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arson convictions for both father and son were handed down in 2012. 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He’s going to be involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797069\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10797069 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Tipton feeds hay to her family's cattle from the back of a pick-up.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2620\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-400x546.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-800x1092.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-768x1048.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-1440x1965.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-1180x1610.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-960x1310.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Tipton feeds hay to her family's cattle from the back of a pickup. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how she was raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would always sit on the bales and help my dad push them off,” she remembers. “And then we were on horses. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rancher Gary Tarbell stands in the sale barn at the Tulare County Stockyard watching as cattle pass through a gate, into a ring and, one by one, are sold to the highest bidder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going out of state, all these cattle,” Tarbell says. “There’s no water here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as farmers in the Central Valley are fallowing thousands of acres because of the drought, cattle ranchers are also cutting production. In fact, herd numbers nationwide are at their lowest since the 1950s, due in part to the Texas and California droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to cut way back,” Tarbell says. “I sold over half of my herd already because there’s no water on the ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214694279&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not atypical, says Jon Dolieslager, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://tularecountystockyard.com/\">Tulare County Stockyard\u003c/a>. “Everybody here is selling, you know, probably double of what they would normally do just because they’re out of feed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolieslager is also the auctioneer. He takes a quick break from doing his auction cry -- or, as some say, \"cattle rattle\" -- and points to the pen behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve probably got close to a thousand head of feeder cattle out there today that we have to sell,” he says. Those are drought numbers. On a sale day in a wet year, he would be selling anywhere from 300 to 500 feeder cattle -- steers and heifers destined to go to feedlots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600944\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10600944\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Cattle ranchers talk business at the Tulare County Stockyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-1440x1078.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle ranchers talk business at the Tulare County Stockyard. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dolieslager says about a quarter of his customers, who come mostly from the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Coast, have quit ranching for now because their springs and wells have dried up and there’s no forage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all completely out of feed and do not want to have to buy alfalfa because of the high cost of alfalfa, because of the high cost of water\" to grow alfalfa, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the barn, Kyle Loveall is waiting his turn to sell off some yearling cattle. He’s the ranch manager for Elliott Land and Cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, we wean our calves in early summer, run them over another year and sell them as yearlings,” he says. “Last year, we weaned them right away and sold them instead of keeping them because we didn’t have enough feed and water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been a cowboy for 44 years, since the age of 14, and he’s never seen a drought like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, we fed almost all year-round,” he says. “It was a huge expense.” Just buying hay cost the ranch around $140,000, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, he says, the water is holding on the ranch he manages. But he bought a water truck just in case the creek beds and wells go dry and he needs to haul in water. But that would be pricy. Cows drink a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five to 35, 40 gallons a day,” he says. “Yeah, that’s a lot of water, times 400, that’s a lot of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranch has reduced its breeding herd in the past three years by 60 percent, down to about 440 cows. And that means Loveall brought fewer calves to the auction this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is it,” he says. “This is basically our income for the year. Instead of 600 calves, we’re gonna sell 120 calves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, beef prices are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cattle will bring a lot of money but it’d be nice if we had a thousand cows and the market was like this,” Loveall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranchers who are forced to sell will at least get a good price on their cattle, says Justin Oldfield, vice president of government affairs for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calcattlemen.org/\">California Cattlemen’s Association\u003c/a>. But, he adds, there’s a lot more to running a ranch than just buying and selling cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes a lot of time to build up a herd, Oldfield says. Ranchers look for certain traits, including disposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that work that you’ve put in, to putting together a cow herd that works for your ranch, goes out the window,” says Oldfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600650\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10600650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Baker is a fourth-generation rancher dealing with the drought.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Baker is a fourth-generation rancher dealing with the drought. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 30 minutes east of the Tulare County Stockyard, Sally Baker looks out at her ranch in the Sierra foothills directly below Sequoia National Park. She points to an empty streambed where her cattle used to drink. It’s not the only place on the ranch that’s dry, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our springs have all dried up on the west side of our ranch, and we had a well on the north end of the ranch also go dry,” says Baker, a fourth-generation rancher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baker’s dad died 20 years ago, she and her mom took over the ranch. Last year was particularly tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We unfortunately had to sell about 50 cows, which broke my heart,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they had to buy hay twice. But Baker says her mom grew up in the Depression, so she knows how to plan for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we were fortunate,” she says. “We had the means to do that. Unfortunately, a lot of ranchers didn’t have a reserve and had to sell off a lot of their stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom, Sally Dudley, can see their cattle from her living-room window. 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On a sale day in a wet year, he would be selling anywhere from 300 to 500 feeder cattle -- steers and heifers destined to go to feedlots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600944\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10600944\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Cattle ranchers talk business at the Tulare County Stockyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-1440x1078.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RanchersChat.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle ranchers talk business at the Tulare County Stockyard. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dolieslager says about a quarter of his customers, who come mostly from the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Coast, have quit ranching for now because their springs and wells have dried up and there’s no forage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all completely out of feed and do not want to have to buy alfalfa because of the high cost of alfalfa, because of the high cost of water\" to grow alfalfa, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the barn, Kyle Loveall is waiting his turn to sell off some yearling cattle. He’s the ranch manager for Elliott Land and Cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, we wean our calves in early summer, run them over another year and sell them as yearlings,” he says. “Last year, we weaned them right away and sold them instead of keeping them because we didn’t have enough feed and water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been a cowboy for 44 years, since the age of 14, and he’s never seen a drought like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, we fed almost all year-round,” he says. “It was a huge expense.” Just buying hay cost the ranch around $140,000, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, he says, the water is holding on the ranch he manages. But he bought a water truck just in case the creek beds and wells go dry and he needs to haul in water. But that would be pricy. Cows drink a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five to 35, 40 gallons a day,” he says. “Yeah, that’s a lot of water, times 400, that’s a lot of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranch has reduced its breeding herd in the past three years by 60 percent, down to about 440 cows. And that means Loveall brought fewer calves to the auction this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is it,” he says. “This is basically our income for the year. Instead of 600 calves, we’re gonna sell 120 calves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, beef prices are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cattle will bring a lot of money but it’d be nice if we had a thousand cows and the market was like this,” Loveall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranchers who are forced to sell will at least get a good price on their cattle, says Justin Oldfield, vice president of government affairs for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calcattlemen.org/\">California Cattlemen’s Association\u003c/a>. But, he adds, there’s a lot more to running a ranch than just buying and selling cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes a lot of time to build up a herd, Oldfield says. Ranchers look for certain traits, including disposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that work that you’ve put in, to putting together a cow herd that works for your ranch, goes out the window,” says Oldfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600650\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10600650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Baker is a fourth-generation rancher dealing with the drought.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Baker is a fourth-generation rancher dealing with the drought. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 30 minutes east of the Tulare County Stockyard, Sally Baker looks out at her ranch in the Sierra foothills directly below Sequoia National Park. 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