 In stepping back on the ranch, it just brings solace. It kind of clears your mind. I can't really explain the warm feeling that it brings to me. The feeling that just goes right from your head to your toes. We're at the Dutton Ranch in Southern Perkins County here in South Dakota. This ranch has been in our family for three generations. My granddad homesteaded it here in 1915. My father was born in 1927 and he, of course, was always part of the ranch and lived on the ranch his entire life. And he operated it until he retired in 2007. In 2010, I retired from my position as an educator and school administrator. And then I've been on the ranch since that time and I've been the primary manager and running livestock, primarily Angus Beef. We run Hurford Bulls and we're a cattle producer. And we sell calves to the feedlots, generally. My brother Dave and my brother Darryl are also owners of the ranch. We have it in Dutton Ranch LLC and I lease the ranch from LLC. I'm currently the secretary of the LLC, so I do the minutes because I'm the retired city finance officer and spearfishing. So, you know, I'm quite familiar with doing that type of work so it ended up just falling on my shoulders. I am very firmly believe that we are just stewards and our grandparents and our parents who had passed this ranch down to us. And it needs to pass on in a better condition than we received it. If you manage a ranch conservationally, you're going to get way more out of it than if you abuse the land and then you have to wait for it to recover. And so, you don't overuse it, you manage it, you rotate your herd. You know, you think it's a sacrifice, but it really isn't. It's a benefit. My dad was instrumental. He was back 20 years ago. He was the regional range manager of the year on some of his conservation practices that he used. One of the things that he started doing was doing a lot of cross fencing and breaking the big pastures down into section size pastures. I have continued with that cross fencing. He didn't get all the pastures broken up into these four and 500 acre pastures which we feel is pretty good for the number of head of livestock that we run. That's what we've done primarily as far as grazing management. We want to leave the land as good or better than how we received it. One of the things that my dad always did and I've continued that practice is trying to reserve some areas for the wildlife and the birds species. The Dutton Dam was actually built in 1935 as a WPA dam. And then it was washed out in 1951. And then my dad, he worked with Ducks Unlimited on a land easement where he allowed them 30 years' use of the surrounding property of that land where it couldn't be grazed at all. Once it was done, it just was an amazing addition to our property. We fenced it off so it would never have livestock around it or only if they crawled in. And it's a great habitat for birds and for all of our local animals. Nothing I enjoy more than seeing the deer and the antelope and the varieties of birds, upland grouse and harkerees as well as the ducks and geese that nest here. We want to share our land, our ranch with all those other species too by fencing off areas that are heavily used by those species of wildlife and not allowing the cattle to overgraze. If we didn't have the river fenced off, the cattle would spend all their time at a heat of the summer right next to the river and it would kill all the willows and they would trump out a lot of the native species that typically are along those grainages. When my parents had started a great estate planning, they had started turning over land to us long before they were even thinking about retiring. And so they were transferring the maximum value over to us kids early on. And by the time that they were going into nursing homes, etc., there was only 60 acres of this ranch left that were not in the children's name. And we bought those 60 acres from them and ended up now that we as a family, as siblings, owned the place and we knew that we needed to do something to make it easier to manage and therefore we formed it into a partnership LLC. And the fun thing about our family is it was instilled in us about family matters and we were taught very strong work ethics. Well, first I would do research with attorneys and find an attorney that has a lot of experience setting up either trusts or LLCs because there's different ways you can go about it. LLC made the most sense to us. You know, someone that specializes in land preservation and land, you know, in family ranching or farming. And then you have to sit down as a family in brainstorm with the pros and the cons to determine, you know, what is your long-term goal? When we set up our LLC, our long-term goal was conservation and the preservation of the land for future generations. We're losing the open space, you know, and we don't know what it's going to look like 200 years from now, but this ranch will remain the same.