sheep ranching
Raising woolly livestock
Sheep ranching is the large-scale raising of sheep, primarily for wool and meat.
Unlike small-scale sheep farming, ranching typically involves extensive grazing land and large flocks: Sheep ranching dominated the economy of the American West in the late 1800s.
The practice often brought ranchers into conflict with cattle operations over grazing rights.
- open rangeUnfenced public grazing land
- grazing landField for livestock feeding
- overgrazingExcessive pasture consumption
- shearingCutting away fleece
- wool spinningTwisting fleece into thread
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Raising bovines commercially
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Growing plants for harvest
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Growth of metropolitan areas
industrial manufacturing · factory production · commercial real estate · mining operations · suburban sprawl
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