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Show Sunda)ffebntary 17, 2008 DAILY Ranchers C9 Remembering George and Abe Continued from CIO agencies have adopted a common strategy to enhance the state's rangelands while protecting its ecosystems. "This new generation of When : Press Last year, 37.5 million calves were born to U.S. beef producers the smallest herd since 1951 a decline the National Cattlemen's Beef Association attributes partially to land loss. Research and government programs highlighting how grazing can benefit the environment have helped make partners out of livestock pro- Other programs reimburse ranchers when they build fences to keep cows away from sensitive pasturelands or erect water tanks so cows dont foul up creeks, said Sara Schmidt, the Natural Resources Conservation Service's assistant chief for the West. Such efforts also serve as a marketing tool with customers who seek George said.The USDA's Grasslands Reserve Program, which works to preserve rangeland through conservation easements and rental agreements, has kept 712,000 acres nationwide from being developed. The California Cattlemen's Association, The Nature Conservancy and other groups are lobbying to get more money for the program included in the 2008 Farm Bill, said Matt Byrne, the association's vice filet out Nitschke's grass-fe- d mignons, he said. KeUy Mulville, a consultant to cattle owners in Colorado and New Mexico, says envi- ducers and their adversaries, - ronmental stewardship can work in tandem with the profit motive: if ranchers protect their grass, they can feed more livestock. "We may end up using the same tools that are destroying our environment to repair it," Mulville said. "Still, it's going to take a lot more than beef to save the world." president. . Associated GARY KAZANJI AN Cattle belonging to rancher Seth Nitschke roam along the foothills of the Sierra Nevada on Feb. 4 at his ranch in Cathey's Valley, Calif. the first place. Gender aside, lists are just too long our these days. Continued from C10 "You have to release, Real- "I think it's really this ize that wanting things to be thing. Women tend perfect rather than stress-fre- e to be more focused on security is the problem. You have to and preserving wealth, so otherprioritize stress-frewise you'll be exhausted and they worry more about debt. Meanwhile, men are out huntyour partner will only feel ing and claiming they killed 16 further away from you," says lions when they really bagged Gray. We all mess up, and a couple of squirrels," explains keeping on top of things is Rowley. particularly tricky when you Bottom line: Ignorance is have two people pulling monnot bliss. Knowing your fiey from the same account, or nancial picture inside and out using the same line of credit. You can do everything right, that includes debt, income, net worth and investments balance your checkbook down eliminates a good chunk of to the penny, and one silly the stress right off the bat. So miscommunication can leave run the numbers together. you facing an overdraft or late fee. As long as it's not a I Abandon perfection. We all seek it. It's why we have frequent occurrence, and you trouble delegating when we're learn from your mistake (filloverwhelmed, and why we ing each other in on any big find ourselves overwhelmed in expenditures is a huge help Chatzky here), don't dwell on it. Move on. to-d- o t Set goals as a team. To- gether, you have to figure out what money means to you and your family. Think of each paycheck as a tool that can be used to finance your retirement, buy a house, go on a vacation and give your children an education. Which of these things takes priority in your relationship? Talk it over, and once you have a plan in place, designate a portion of your income every month to each goal. Set up bank accounts to help you along the way you'll want savings accounts or CDs for short-tergoals, and investment accounts for ones the long-terand keep tabs on your progress. Let me tell you, a dollar saved toward your goal is the ultimate stress hunter-gat- herer e, well-deserv- fact, he was forced to borrow money for train fare to his own presidential inauguratioa One of Lincoln's neighbors in Springfield, ILL, heard children crying in the street and rushed out of his house to investigate. There, he found Lincoln with two of his sons, both of whom were sobbing uncontrollably. "What ever is the matter with the boys, Mr. Lincoln?" he asked. "Just a student University of I carried I was around a .. ranchers knows they have to work on the environmental part of it to survive," said Neil McDougald, a rancher at the University of California Cooperative Extension office in Madera County. "I'll guaiv antee you the guys driving cows today have a better environmental conscience than the ranchers who were riding around holding up stagecoaches." Still, a history of bad blood between those who live off the land and those who seek to protect it hasn't made coalition-buildin- g easy. Recent research from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization found that the world's large-scal- e livestock operations are causing environmental problems ranging from land degradation and air and water pollution to toss of biodiversity. In the last two centuries, foraging has contributed to the erosion of arid Western rangelands and watershed contamination, said Mel George, a range ecologist at the University of California, Davis. The environmental movement has hit back with lawsuits seeking to ban cattlemen from running their herds on public lands. HERALD leather-boun- d dictionary. I still remember the cover, with a picture of Abe Lincoln sitting on a log with an ax beside him. The inscription read: "I will study hard, and some day my chance will come." With Presidents Day upon us, I'd like to share some of the business and life lessons that I've learned from George Washington and Lincoln. Their fundamental wisdom remains pertinent and useful today. (If the language seems sexist, please consider the times.) Whether as general or 1 , , : fI Harvey Mackay what's the matter with the whole world," replied Lincoln. "I've got three walnuts, and each wants two." Some things never change. Lincoln once was criticized for referring to the Confederates in kind terms. The woman critic asked him how he could speak generously of his enemies when he should rather destroy them. "Why, Positive Struggles feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely president, Washington knew weighted. His integrity was most pure, his justice the plenty about leadership. The most inflexible I have ever following passage, taken from a 1775 letter, talks about known." how to treat the people who Washington had some have to follow you into battle. financial moxie as well. As The advice holds up well, commander in chief of the American forces, Washington especially when put into a business setting; "Be strict refused a regular salary and in your discipline; that is, to worked for expenses only. He require nothing unreasonable came out substantially better of your officers and men, but than he otherwise would have. see that whatever is required That's my kind of guy! When be punctually complied with. he was offered the U S. presiReward and punish every dency, he volunteered to work but this man according to his merit, for expenses again time Congress insisted he have without partiality or prejudice. Hear his complaints; if a fixed salary. well founded, redress them; if For the record, Washington was one of the richest men otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous in America. At his death, his ones. Impress upon the mind holdings were worth about of every man, from first to the half a million dollars and included 33,000 acres of land lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are in Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvacontending for." Thomas Jefferson wrote an nia, Washington, D.C., and the evaluation of Washington in Northwest Territory; $25,000 1795: "He errs as other men worth of stocks; 640 sheep; do, but he errs with integrity. 329 cows; 42 mules; and 20 His mind was great and powworkhorses. Not true for Abraham Linerful, without being of the coln. as first order ... and far He failed in business, lost very as he saw, no judgment was numerous elections, lost his ever sounder. It was slow in sweetheart and had a nervous breakdown. But he never quit. operation, being little aided by invention, but sure in con- He kept on trying and became clusion. He was incapable of our according to many fear, meeting personal dangreatest president. As with so gers with the calmest unconmany great achievers, Lincoln cern. Perhaps the strongest faced numerous challenges. In Madam," replied Lincoln, "do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?" Most of us are familiar with Honest Abe's dry wit and wisdom. On persistence, he said, "I do the best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right won't make a difference." 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