Filming a Wolf Documentary

Elke Duerr Interviews Wilma About Wolves on the Ranch

Our new made friend Elke Duerr was here at Double Circle Ranch to get some more footage for her documentary “Stories of Wolves-The Lobo Returns” about the Mexican Gray Wolf recovery. She wanted to interview a rancher who lived in the heart of the Mexican […]

Gray’s Peak Pasture

Gray’s Peak Pasture

We have the Texas Longhorns in Gray’s Peak Pasture – and it is a bear. I guess it is the second roughest pasture we have. It is about 5000 acres of steep canyons, brush, and wooded ridges – with plenty of rock ledges thrown in for a challenge. It would probably […]

Bird’s Eye View of Double Circle Ranch

Nothing but wide open space. Miles of grassland and woods, ridge after ridge, canyon after canyon. […]

Cattle in the High Country

It is January and my cattle are in the high country. The browse in the high country is very high in protein and other nutrients. […]

Mexican Gray Wolves and Ranchers

The endangered Mexican Gray Wolf, with only about 40 animals in the wild, used to be an important predator in our area. […]

October 2010 Erosion Workshop

Our free erosion control workshop in October was another huge success. We built almost 30 new structures with our volunteer labor. […]

The Hills are Covered in Sunflowers!

Double Circle Ranch is pure gold this year. We have fields of sunflowers stretching as far as you can see. Golden eye fills in the ground around the tall sunflowers with more shining gold flowers. It is a sight to see. We always have some golden eye and sunflowers, but they seem to run in […]

Bring on the Butterflies!

Arizona State Butterfly – Two Tailed Swallowtail

We had butterflies coming to the new butterfly garden even before we could get the plants in the ground! Marceline was able to identify 18 species in just over an hour in the butterfly garden. I am still at the yellow, blue, or spotted butterfly id stage. […]

Arizona Looking Like Ireland!

Finally the rain is falling on the Double Circle Ranch. It is beginning to look like Ireland instead of Arizona – lots of shades of green. […]

Monsoon Season is Back!

Summer Monsoons

Well, monsoon season is back again at Double Circle Ranch. The east part of the ranch seems to have had some rain, but the rest of the ranch is still too dry. We have had lots of wind, lightening, and thunder, but the rain seems to be falling just west of the […]