MARATHON, N.Y. -- While most modern farmers work their fields accompanied by the rumble of a trusty tractor, sheep farmer Donn Hewes labors to the faint jingling of harnesses in rhythm with the ...

On a horse farm in Folsom, Vicky Busch helps carry on the work started by Dorothy Brooke almost a century ago in Egypt, when she successfully campaigned to save starving and abused war horses and ...

Editor's note: This is the first part of an exploration of how farming practices have changed over the decades, driven by horses and then engines. The first part is here. Let’s slightly digress from ...

Since many of us no longer live in small agricultural societies, while you might be familiar with the idea of a mule, you might not know about the specifics of the actual animal. Beyond its use as a ...

HUSON, Mont. — Many of us enjoy spending time in the Region's wilderness areas. At the Ninemile Ranger District's ranch near Huson, NBC Montana met the hard working stock crews that help keep that ...

APPLE CREEK – There was a time when horses were part of the family particularly on the farm. There, a good team of horses was as much a part of family life as was the Saturday night bath. Horses did ...

You know, we’re enjoying summer right now, and to this old High Sierra packer, that means it’s time for mules. Naturally, there is no one time for mules, but pack station veterans, such as this one, ...

U.S. Forest Service employees who gathered for a training in Rifle earlier this month weren’t there to learn about how to make use of newfangled things such as drones or artificial intelligence to do ...

During the spring, summer, and fall, Forest Service mules work packing culverts, tools, and supplies into the backcountry under the supervision of their human handlers. It’s hard work. ”(They’re) ...