The valuable community pasture
Created in April, 1935, the Regina-based Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration cared for 85 community pastures. It has been chopped by the Harper government.Hamilton Greenwood
The Burrowing owl, an endangered species in Canada, has found a home on the Val Marie range in Southern Saskatchewan.Hamilton Greenwood
Prairie crocus are among the many wildflowers growing in the Frenchman River Valley, near Eastend, Sask.Hamilton Greenwood
A Vesper sparrow sings on the fence line at the Brokenshell community pasture near Trossachs, Sask., while a cow grazes in the background.Trevor Herriot
A long-billed curlew, a species at risk, walks through speargrass (Stipa) pasture near Val Marie, Sask.Hamilton Greenwood
Pronghorn antelope gambol in the Old Wives community pasture in Saskatchewan.Hamilton Greenwood
A western meadowlark find a nice meal in sagebrush at the Govenlock pasture in Consul, Sask.Hamilton Greenwood
Sagebrush grows along the Frenchman River Valley in Saskatchewan.Hamilton Greenwood
‘I never wanted to be anything else but a cowboy,’ says Mert Taylor, one of the longest-serving of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration’s 300 managers and range riders.Jon Bowie