 As long as I can remember even before I went to school I like grass. I remember one time when I was plowing my dad says you got to get over to the fence closer so we can get two more rows of corn there. Well of course I didn't argue with my father. I thought there's always some corn droppings and then a nice grass strip would be nice for wildlife and the cows could lay down on that strip when it got filled up. I did it anyway because I was told to and I just thought I just like grass too much to plow that good grassland under just bothered me. So I just kind of thought I got to find something a little different. Grass is a permanent part of this place and it's a very important piece of our ecosystem in Duel County. It's important to our economy in Duel County and into the state as a whole. Well we rotate quite a bit and we're very careful we do it at what we think the right stages are. I like bio control very much so. The right amount of cattle we was very careful not to over graze it. That was really the main thing because all in this country in eastern South Dakota if you got grassland left over it seems like you're wasting all that grass and I just never looked at it that way. I thought that's a good reserve and it makes it stronger. And I always worked on the theory you never want to fight mother nature. Mother nature is going around. You can try but it's hopeless. You can try and beat things but it works better if you just work with them so if it's in grass and that works it makes a lot more sense. You would be surprised what people will try to find. When you plow it you've ruined thousands of years behind you with one drop of the plow that can never go back to the original. If you plow under the grasslands that's a perpetual decision and you'll never be able to get native grass back to where it was. We're talking upwards of 200 species of different grasses and forms in the native side and plowing it just completely diminishes a lot of that value. It isn't something that you do for monetary reasons. You do it because it's the right thing. It's a series of events and a series of decisions that bring the conservation to a head here on the Bluebell Ranch. They're making decisions not to judge a thing or a plant or an animal on its exact value and worth today for what they can understand but realizing that even if they don't understand it it likely has value and worth for the place in the system and they're trying to preserve that. If I ever get to the right place I can look down on this place and say that's always going to be grass.