One of Idaho’s most beloved ranchers, Bud Purdy, explains the joy of ranching in a handful of words.“Every morning, you get up and do something different,” Purdy told writer, producer and author Steve Stuebner. Purdy continues: “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. “It’s just a constant going out there and doing it. I was never a cowboy, but I’ve ridden a million miles.”
Purdy, 94, is one of the rare Idaho ranchers respected for his skills raising livestock, his business acumen and his environmental values. His shift to rest-rotation grazing on public grazing lands and other innovations became models for the industry that improved the quality of the land and productivity of the beef. His private conservation values led him to donate a 3,500-acre easement on all of the ranch along Silver Creek in the 1990s. This priceless contribution to the Nature Conservancy helps it protect its own Silver Creek Preserve, a place visited and loved by tens of thousands of anglers and other outdoor enthusiasts...more
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