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Range Days offered food, fun, fodder for thought |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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Page 1 of 2  CAMPERS – Range Days participants camp out on the playground at Meadowlark School. I-O Photo by Buck Traxler
“When I walk up and down the street, everyone asks me “Are you here for Range Days? We’re glad you came,” said Taylor Brown, renowned radio broadcaster for the Northern Ag Network and a co-sponsor of the premier event.
“We appreciate all the local sponsors and all the different ways Conrad helped to make Range Days a success. Everyone stepped up to the plate,” said Paul Jones, a supervisor on the Pondera County Conservation District, which co-hosted Range Days.
Four-year-olds and 40-year-olds from as far away as Alzada and as close as Conrad took ribbons, prizes and more knowledge home from the 31st annual Montana Range Days in Conrad this week.
Local and state sponsors awarded more than 90 honors to Buckaroos,
Super Starters, Wranglers, youth and adults at the end of the three-day celebration of Montana’s largest, most enduring natural resource.
Conrad’s Justin Ratzburg took fifth place in the Wrangler division of the range utilization competition.
More than 200 teens and elementary age children -- and their parents -- learned how and why our grasslands feed and clothe people, offer open space for more than 50 species of big game and other wildlife, filter our water and reduce carbon dioxide.
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