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Remembering Chip Hines

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Arlen Chip Hines, October 24, 1942 - October 12, 2020.
Arlen Chip Hines, October 24, 1942 – October 12, 2020.

I recently learned that Arlen Chip Hines passed away last fall after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. And while this comes some months late, I don’t want to let his passing go without acknowledging the contribution he made to my life and to the lives of so many others.

Chip was born and raised on a farm and ranch southwest of Burlington, Colorado. After high school he moved to the Kit Carson, Colorado area and worked on several ranches. In 1968 Chip and his wife Judy began leasing land and buying cows. Cattle and grass, and learning how to grow the best of both, became a life-long endeavor. After he retired, he began writing and sharing what he’d learned so that others wouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel.

I met Chip at a workshop about ten years ago when I was presenting about teaching cows to eat weeds. We hit it off right away and he took me under his wing, introducing me to folks, setting me up for more workshop presentations, and encouraging graziers to try the training technique. When I started On Pasture, he immediately volunteered to write and he provided lots of great articles, ideas, and support. Unfortunately, it seems someone removed his account here, and with it, all his articles. So if you’d like to profit from his knowledge, you’ll need to buy his books on Amazon.

I’m so glad I got the opportunity to know Chip and to share his wisdom with others. I hope you’ll join me in thinking about him today, and about your own mentors as well. Maybe light a candle, or say a prayer, or pay them the honor of taking a moment to pay close attention to your grass and your animals.

Thanks for reading. Be safe out there!

Kathy

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Kathy Voth
I am the founder, editor and publisher of On Pasture, now retired. My career spanned 40 years of finding creative solutions to problems, and sharing ideas with people that encouraged them to work together and try new things. From figuring out how to teach livestock to eat weeds, to teaching range management to high schoolers, outdoor ed graduation camping trips with fifty 6th graders at a time, building firebreaks with a 130-goat herd, developing the signs and interpretation for the Storm King Fourteen Memorial trail, receiving the Conservation Service Award for my work building the 150-mile mountain bike trail from Grand Junction, Colorado to Moab, Utah...well, the list is long so I'll stop with, I've had a great time and I'm very grateful.

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  1. Godspeed to Chip; and Kathy’s artful story shows the β€œsalt of the earth” folks we experience in our journeys remain priceless πŸŒˆπŸ˜‡β€οΈπŸ“šπŸ€πŸ‚πŸ‚πŸ¦‰πŸ™πŸ½βœοΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ That love of land connects deeply to the people, animals, insects, birds ALL who NEED each other for sustenance!!πŸŒˆπŸ¦‰πŸ“šπŸ€πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈβœοΈπŸ₯°. This mutual dependence has a miraculous quality that leaves me speechless 😜 Thanks

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