http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/9320/0 en http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/story/carving-prairie-commons/17303 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Ranchers divided on federal divestment from community pasturelands </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/sheldon_photo.white_cows.edited.jpg" alt="" title="Ranchers are divided on impending changes to the management of 62 community pastures in Saskatchewan. Photo by Sheldon Birnie" width="450" height="336" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/sheldon_photo.pasturelands_plants.edited.jpg" alt="" title="Much of the land under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration is endangered tall grass prairie. Photo by Sheldon Birnie" width="450" height="336" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>WINNIPEG&mdash;Prairie community pastures and grasslands amounting to one and a half times the size of Prince Edward Island may soon be privatized, and ranchers&rsquo; reactions are mixed.</p> <p><a href="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/story/carving-prairie-commons/17303" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/story/carving-prairie-commons/17303#comments Sheldon Birnie alberta cattle ranching commons grasslands Manitoba pastureland PFRA Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Prairies Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Thu, 23 May 2013 17:15:47 +0000 correybaldwin 17303 at http://dominion.mediacoop.ca