<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Daily Kos at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p class="date" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(112, 109, 90); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><br></p><h2 style="margin: 0px auto 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; width: 460px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><a id="titleHref" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/16/1292565/-An-Idahoan-shows-Bundy-what-a-real-Western-rancher-is" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); text-decoration: none;">An Idahoan shows Bundy what a real Western rancher is</a></h2></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Being a Westerner and the daughter and granddaughter of cattle ranchers, I think it's about time that the non-crazy Western ranchers get some equal national media time. Because they're not all federal government-hating, "wise use," sagebrush rebelling, gun-toting crazies—even in a state like Idaho. One of Idaho's most influential cattle ranchers and conservationists is proof of that. His name was Bud Purdy, and in his 96 years, he became sort of a legend in the state. Unfortunately, he passed away this week, but this remembrance from the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Idaho Stateman's</i> Rocky Barker tells the story:</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-----</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Purdy, 96, led the ranching industry into rest and rotation grazing on public lands that both protected the range and improved cattle production. He duck-hunted and skied with Ernest Hemingway and hosted Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper at his Picabo Ranch.</span><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He helped start the Idaho Cattle Association, led the University of Idaho Foundation as president and was chairman of the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry. In addition to the ranch, he and his late wife Ruth owned the Picabo Store, the Picabo Elevator and Silver Creek Supply, a seed business. […]</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Purdy donated a 3,500-acre conservation easement on all of the ranch along Silver Creek in the 1990s to the Nature Conservancy, adjacent to its own Silver Creek Preserve. Purdy didn’t even take the tax break on the easement valued at $7 million. […]</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He loved the cattle business, he explained to writer, producer and author Steve Stuebner in an article in 2012 for the Idaho Rangeland Commission (which he co-founded). "Every morning, you get up and do something different," he said. "You turn out on the range and ride a horse every day. Even now, I go out and make sure the water is OK, check the fences and make sure the gates are closed.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's just a constant going out there and doing it," Purdy said. "I was never a cowboy, but I've ridden a million miles."</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-----</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As one of my good friends here in Idaho <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sisyphus.idaho/posts/614712755279473?stream_ref=10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">wrote</a> on Facebook, "He loved his land so much he owned it and when owning it wasn't enough to preserve it for future generations, he figured out a way to do that."</span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cliven Bundy doesn't represent the West. He doesn't represent cattle ranchers. He represents a minority of right-wing cranks who are good at making a lot of noise through threats of violence. He's also nothing more than a common crook.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you're looking for an emblematic man of the West, it's not Bundy. It's Bud Purdy.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bud Purdy was so revered in Idaho that even a bunch of Republicans pay tribute to him.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><img src="cid:ABC602C0-3CDC-45C4-9385-9CED40B1628C" alt="image.jpeg" id="ABC602C0-3CDC-45C4-9385-9CED40B1628C" width="640" height="472"></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Video</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/S4VNg9YSQzw">http://youtu.be/S4VNg9YSQzw</a></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>