Terry Gardner is an artist who has been involved with Ranchlands for almost 10 years. He is originally from St. Louis where he had a career balancing commercial and fine art. He was influenced early on by old westerns on tv and in film, gaining

#41 - Colorful Living with Janelle Pietrzak

18 days ago 58m 43s

Janelle Pietrzak is a weaver who lives a colorful life in the Mojave desert of California. Along with her partner Robert, who is a welder, she cofounded and runs a shop named All Roads, where they sell an assortment of their handmade textiles,

#40 - Ranchlands then and now with Duke Phillips III

Apr 23rd, 2024 43m 36s

In today’s episode of the Ranchlands Podcast, Jonathan sits down with Duke Phillips to discuss what Ranchlands really is. While it might seem like an obvious question, there are actually so many layers to what we do. On the surface we are a

#39 - Hunting, Conservation, and Human Nature with Bruce McGlenn

Mar 26th, 2024 1h 7m

Bruce McGlenn has nearly 40 years of bird and big game hunting experience in the Pacific Northwest. He is the owner and founder of Human Nature Hunting, a business that offers courses on hunting and foraging with an emphasis on the experiences

#38 - Managing Resources with Kirk Gadzia

Mar 12th, 2024 1h 11m

Kirk Gadzia is a longtime friend of Ranchlands’ CEO Duke Phillips, as well as an educator to countless Ranchlands employees. He is the founder of Resource Management Services, a New Mexico based consulting, training and monitoring organization

#37 - Land Monitoring with Dr. Caitlin Youngquist

Feb 27th, 2024 45m

Dr. Caitlin Younquist is Director of Science and Education for Snaplands, an environmental consulting company that helps land managers maximize long term profit and healthy ecosystems by providing and interpreting rangeland data. We first met C

#36 - People of Ranchlands: Madi Phillips

Feb 14th, 2024 55m 13s

Madi Phillips is the leather shop manager for Ranchlands. She was born and raised in the Midwest, was a wrangler at Zapata Ranch, and moved to the Chico Basin Ranch in 2013. Madi has been involved in Ranchlands’ leather shop since its infancy a

#35 - People of Ranchlands: Jonathan Tullar

Jan 29th, 2024 1h 2m

Jonathan Tullar first joined Ranchlands back in 2009, and he has played an integral role in almost every aspect of Ranchlands’ businesses. He is currently the Foreman of the Wyoming Paint Rock Ranch, and he has extensive experience with Ranchla

#34 - People of Ranchlands: Lynae Risinger

Dec 19th, 2023 56m 1s

Lynae Risinger is a ranch management apprentice and currently manages the MP Ranch in New Mexico. She started as a ranch intern three years ago on the MP and spent eight months on the Paintrock Canyon Ranch before moving back to the MP, where s

#33 - People of Ranchlands: Oliver Tautkus

Dec 5th, 2023 59m 49s

Oliver Tautkus is a ranch apprentice on Ranchlands’ Paintrock Ranch, our 80,000-acre ranch located on the western flank of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. Prior to working at the Paintrock, he was an intern down in Texas on our Frying Pan Ranch. O

#32 - The Conservation Value of Working Lands with Lesli Allison

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 6m

This is a special podcast episode that features a conversation between the Executive Director of Western Landowners Alliance, Lesli Allison, and Ranchlands’ founder and CEO, Duke Phillips III. Western Landowners Alliance– also known as WLA– is

#31 - The Audacity of a Creative Vision with Photographer Parker Fitzgerald

Nov 8th, 2023 1h 19m

Parker Fitzgerald is a photographer and director. He co-founded a Portland-based creative studio with his brother, and they’ve combined their expertise in design, strategy, and visual media to work with an impressive range of clients–from behem

#30 - The Process of Groundbreaking Photojournalism with Helen Richardson

Oct 24th, 2023 1h 5m

Helen Richardson is a photojournalist who has been working at the Denver Post for more than thirty years. Over the course of her long and successful career, she’s covered everything from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Southeast Asia Christma

#29 - People of Ranchlands: Mike Giordano

Oct 3rd, 2023 59m 13s

Mike Giordano is a Ranch Apprentice at the Frying Pan Ranch, a Ranchlands operation located outside of Amarillo, Texas. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Mike grew up with horses and spent much of his teens and all of his college years playing

#28 - Then and Now: An Environmental History of North America with Dan Flores

Sep 19th, 2023 1h 14m

Dan Flores is an environmental writer whose work helps us better understand the complex and fascinating history of people, animals, and wild places in North America and beyond. He’s the author of eleven books, including Coyote America and Ameri

#27 - Conservation and birding with Tammy VerCauteren

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 2m

Tammy VerCauteren is the Executive Director of The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, a highly effective conservation organization whose mission is to “conserve birds and their habitats through science, education and land stewardship.” Tammy join

#26 - Painting the West with Teal Blake

Aug 16th, 2023 1h 1m

Teal Blake is a renowned Western artist whose paintings reflect his deep love and appreciation for the tradition of ranching and cowboying. Teal was born and raised in Montana, and he’s spent most of his life entrenched in the worlds of horses,

#25 - The art of leatherwork at Colorado Correctional Industries

Aug 1st, 2023 1h 2m

For this week's episode, Ranchlands’ leather shop manager Madi Phillips and Ed headed to Sterling, Colorado, where they sat down with Freddy Z and Duncan Clarke to discuss leatherwork, craftsmanship, and the art of creating useful and beautiful

#24 - People of Ranchlands: Exploring the world on horseback from Argentina to Wyoming with Lauren O’Toole

Jul 18th, 2023 1h 2m

Lauren O’Toole joined the team at Ranchlands back in 2021 when she was hired to work as a Wrangler at the Zapata Ranch. Over the past three years, her role at Ranchlands has continued to evolve, and she’s currently the Events Coordinator for so

#23 - The History of the Zapata Ranch with Nancy Fishbein

Jun 29th, 2023 1h 4m

Nancy Fishbein is the Director Resilient Lands for the Colorado Program of The Nature Conservancy. Nancy’s team is responsible for protecting and stewarding critical lands across the state, as well as ensuring the Chapter’s alignment with the l

#22 - People of Ranchlands: Dylan Taylor

Jun 20th, 2023 1h 2m

Dylan Taylor is a ranch apprentice at the Chico Basin Ranch, where he plays an integral role in the success of the 89,000-acre cattle operation. Born and raised outside of Fort Worth, Texas, Dylan had no ranching experience before coming to Ran

#21 - GL Richardson

May 30th, 2023 1h 8m

GL Richardson is a Santa Fe-based painter who translates the rawness, iconography, and motifs of the American West into consequential work that speaks to broader human truths. GL grew up loving art, but as he moved through school, his focus shi

#20 - Mike Eli LoPinto

May 16th, 2023 1h 4m

Upstate New York’s own, Mike Eli LoPinto moved to Nashville on a drunken New Years Eve bet in 2012, from Boone, NC, where he attended Appalachian State University. For the last 10 years he has been on the road, in support of artists which inclu

Duke Phillips III: Introducing the Ranchlands Collective

May 3rd, 2023 40m 11s

We welcome our founder, Duke Phillips III, back to the podcast to discuss the newest project at Ranchlands: the Collective. The Collective, launching May 1st, is a new opportunity to become a member of Ranchlands and gain deeper access to our m

#19 - Dr. Bonney MacDonald

Apr 26th, 2023 1h 4m

Dr. Bonney MacDonald is a Professor of Western Literature at West Texas A&M University. Bonney’s credentials are as extensive as they are impressive– she holds a B.A. in English and a B.A. in psychology from California State University, an M.A.