Kealia Ranch was originally founded in 1914 by L.L. McCandless as McCandless Ranch. Comprised of nearly 60,000 acres of scarcely developed fee simple and leased lands by 1939, the ranch was left to L.L.’s three grandchildren at the time of his passing in 1940. Ranching operations continued for the next forty years while slowly developing roads, installing water systems, pipelines, and creating additional paddocks (enclosed pastures).
Prior to the development of lands, the ranch was a wild cattle operation baring no roads or fences. Cowboys and fencing crews traveled by horse and mule on trails through the thick forests of tree ferns (hapu’u), koa, and ohia trees to work, hauling any necessary supplies and camping in the mountains for weeks at a time as travel was laborious.
A typical workday then, consisted of crews installing fences while cowboys’ roped wild cattle to be sold, in preparation for the introduction of tame (domesticated) cattle herds between 1950 and 1955. Operations shifted focus toward managing merely tame cattle herds within controlled paddocks as the market for wild cattle died off; hence wild cattle still exist.
Despite successful development efforts, the ranch was unfortunately partitioned in 1993 due to unresolved differences between the three siblings; more recently identified as McCandless Ranch, Kaimalino Ranch, and Kealia Ranch.
Today, Kealia Ranch consists of nearly 10,000 fee simple acres and 2,000 leased acres of lands from the ocean shores in South Kona to the high slopes of Mauna Loa. While its core interest continues as cattle ranching and locally marketing grass finished cattle, the ranch has expanded operations to include wild game hunting tours, farming of cocoa and coffee, and a sm...
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...m loose. Our work is done for the day.
Tired and wanting to be home, everyone opts not to eat and start trekking down the mountain. We reach the warehouse just after 3:30 and decide to back the truck under the roof to keep our equipment dry. We will be working with our horses for the remainder of the week so there is no need to continually unload and reload.
It is a vast misconception that cattle ranching is glamorous and lacks the need for skill. However, working here at Kealia Ranch has taught me that it is a way of life that takes patience, commitment, horse skill, common sense, and an unbelievable amount of trust in your co-workers. Though the wages are not awesome, the benefit of seeing the purest beauties of Hawaii lands makes it all worth it. Therefore, I feel it safe to say that we, as ranchers, live the life we love and love the life we live.
In Santa Rosa California stands the Adobe of Maria Ygnacia de Carrillo, known by many citizens of Sonoma County as the Carrillo Adobe. In the years of 1837-1838 a woman by the name of Maria Ygnacia de Carrillo built her home in what would become Santa Rosa, California. The foundation of her home was laid by Franciscan monks years earlier when they wished to build the 22nd mission in California, however they moved on to other sites in the surrounding area. After Carrillo’s death, the adobe became the first post office of Santa Rosa, California, a trading post, and a drying shed for a prune farmer named Hahman who would later purchase the property. In the 1930s a WPA survey was performed on the property, and since that time numerous restoration attempts have failed. However since 2012 archeologists and historians have been investigating the site to decide where the boundaries are of the adobe since part of the land has been sold for a company to build condominiums. In 2013 squatters broke into the chain link fencing around the structure, breaking boards from the ceiling and creating camps in the trees surrounding the structure. Due to the surveys and notes given by the archeologists, it has been determined that the structure was a U-shape, however there are only three small remains of rooms of the structure let underneath the overhang that has been constructed to house the structure. There has been a specific amount of money allotted to keep the remaining portion of the structure from being destroyed, however, the funds are not being used to reconstruct any portion of the destroyed portion of the building. The structure and site needs to be added to the National Historic Registry not only be...
In the shadow of a cliff wall within Chaco Canyon rests the ruins of Pueblo Bonito, the most famous of the towns and settlements built by the Anasazi over 900 years ago. From tree-ring dating, it is known that a period of severe drought swept through the Chaco area in AD 1150, causing the site to be abandoned. After it was rediscovered in 1849 by U.S. Army soldiers, the site was severely vandalized for seventy years until it was made a national monument in 1907. In 1920, the National Geographic Society began a thorough reconstruction of this once great, and still impressive, site (Chaco Canyon, 1982-2015). Between its construction and its abandonment, Pueblo Bonito was a complex and important locality for the people who poured so much time
On March 10, 1892 the Billings Gazette reported, “The opening of spring may be more red than green for the horse thieves and cattle thieves of Johnson County” (Brash, 143). The writer of the article could little have known how truthful their premonition would prove to be. The late 1800’s were turbulent times in the West. Large tracts of publicly held range ground would be at the center of Wyoming’s very own civil war. Gil Bollinger, author and western researcher, reports that by the 1870’s and 1880’s fencing of land to enclose both crops and water sources was common (Bollinger, 81). This practice, however, was still illegal according to the federal government. In 1877, the United States Government sued Swan Land and Cattle Company, in an effort to set an example that all fences on open range must come down (Bollinger, 81). The fencing of lands was a major problem, as agricultural producers needed open access to the limited resources, especially water. Johnson County, in northern Wyoming, was an agricultural nucleus for cattle and sheep producers who knew the lush grass and good water supply would greatly benefit their operations. Since fencing was illegal, these resources were available to everyone. Cattle operators, large and small alike, ran their livestock loose and participated in large roundups once a year where all the cattle were branded. Slick calves, called mavericks, were often unrightfully claimed. Lack of fencing made any free ranging livestock available to whoever was devious enough to take them (Smith, 25).
... could easily and (more importantly) quickly move from farms to cities to be sold. Even livestock could be carried by freight to reach markets across the country.
"The Santa Fe Trail Lives On!" Welcome to SFTNet, the latest manifestation of the Santa Fe Trail saga. This service is designed for trail buffs, students, researchers, travelers on the trail--in short, anyone with an interest in historic or contemporary developments along the Santa Fe Trail. What Is The Santa Fe Trail? As many who read this introduction will know, the Santa Fe Trail is an ancient land route of communication between the desert Southwest of what is now the United States and the prairies and plains of central North America. In the Southwest it was also part of a longer route that ran down the Rio Grande into what is now northern Mexico. American Indian peoples used the route to trade the agricultural produce of the Rio Grande Valley and the bounty of the plains, such as jerked buffalo meat and buffalo hides. When the Spanish conquistador Onate came to New Mexico in 1598, he and his soldiers followed this ancient route as they explored the plains and traded with the peoples there. During the next two centuries the Spanish gained an intimate knowledge of the plains and the routes between the Mississippi-Missouri river systems and the Southwest. Then, in 1821, a trader from Missouri, William Becknell, came to Santa Fe along what was to become known as the historical route of the Santa Fe Trail. He opened the Santa Fe Trail as a commercial route between what was then ...
We sat there for a few more minutes then I got up and yelled for everyone to get ready to start moving again. I donned my pack and tightened the straps, and after making sure everyone else was ready, started off down the winding trail to the night’s campsite.
Technology in this time period allowed for more crops to be produced. The use of new farm equipment was one of the things that generated more production. Document D shows a combine, a piece of farm equipment that harvests grain, being pulled by many horses. The use of the combine to trigger an increase in agricultural production as shown in Document A. Also with the invention of the grain elevator more farmers had the ability to store grain in bulk. Another technological advancement that developed during this time would be the railroad system. The railroads linked the farms to the big cities as shown in Document B. “Cowboys”, usually in Texas, herded cattle hundreds of miles along cattle trails, such as the Chisholm Trail, and the western trail, to cow towns along railroads. A drawback to the railroads, though, would be the “Robber Barons”, such as C. Vanderbilt, who had monopolistic power over the railroads. Things like cattle would be taken to factories more likely in Chicago as depicted in Document F. The packaged meat would then go into a railroad car that was possibly refrig...
Today Quarai is a National Historic Landmark within the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, with sites featured in this itinerary at Abó and Gran Quivira. The site contains a variety of settlements from A.D. 1250 through the colonial period. The pueblo and mission remains reflect the early period of Pueblo-Spanish interaction, the conflicts between the Spanish church and state, and their overall effects on native culture in the Southwest. Visitors should not miss exploring the impressive structures on a trip through central New Mexico.
Small farms surrounded by the wild. There weren’t enough farmers so they could only look after 1 acre at a time. They always needed more land because tobacco used up much of the fertility in soil. They looked for land near rivers to help them from carrying the heavy loads.
The Carrillo Adobe is eligible for each of the four criteria to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The sooner that this property and structure is listed on the site, the sooner it will become a places where families can enjoy this structure once again, and learn about the many events and people that lived here. The structure to begin, far exceeds the fifty year minimum for a structure to be listed, having been built one hundred and seventy seven years ago this year. The first criteria stated that the structure is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. The Carrillo Adobe falls into this category for many reasons, not only was it the first structure built in the town of Santa Rosa, but it was part of the large migration to California of Californios. The Spanish and Mexican presence has helped to shape the Western Portion of the United States in a great way, and Maria Carrillo, her children, and family were only a small portion of that. The second criteria, being associated with the lives of significant persons, only applies to Sonoma County. Outside of Sonoma County many will not know directly who Maria Carrillo is. While many Californians know of her son in law Mariano Vallejo, Carrillo is a prominent and important figure in Sonoma County history, and this household was the home of one of her sons, Joaquin Victor II, who would go on to become the first Latino mayor of Sonoma, California. The Carrillo Adobe definitely falls into criteria three for the National Register of Historic Places. The Carrillo Adobe embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction. The oldest forms of adobe structure scan be found in Anci...
to store food. Since some Apache tribes lived in the forests and well-watered valleys the mainly
Professional rodeo is one of the more popular equine competitions.The beginnings of rodeo can be traced back to the ranches of the early 1700’s, when the Spanish ruled the West. The Spanish cattlemen on these early ranches had duties including roping, horse breaking, riding, herding, branding, and much more. These events are now competitions in our modern day rodeos (Clark).
Throughout time the local tribe built and developed a home for themselves and by 1975 crops were developed. The constant issue to survive from passing diseased became in issue.
The U.S. Department of Interior’s, Bureau of Land Management, (BLM) was appointed to carry out the Act and given the task of managing the herds of wild horses and burros. Consequently, BLM’s management of wild horse herds has been highly criticized by animal rights activists, horse advocates, news media, as well as members of Congress. There have been numerous lawsuits filed against BLM regarding their management practices and their appalling wild horse round-ups. However, unimpeded BLM continues with the controversial issue of wild horse round-ups, resulting in the death and injury of many wild horses and burros. The vast majority of these round...
Ranching goes beyond chasing cows and riding horses. Ranchers are businessmen. They carefully manage their operation's expenses, income, and taxes like other typical businessmen. Income only comes once a year when they sell their calves in the fall. Therefore, each dollar is spent wisely on equipment, feed, and advertising.