We needed to get permission to survey some section lines on a landowner adjoining the survey we are working on. I put a call into a phone number I had, but no one had returned, so I sent the PC out to knock on the door as he located some corners and set up control one afternoon. He stopped in and the rancher along with his dog came out to chat.?ÿ
Well,,,,,,the PC looks at the dog and asks if it's Rover. 5 years ago and maybe 30 miles to the east, when he was in the big open, he came across a young dog lost and panting in a ravine. Being a hot day and many miles from any house he picked up the dog and kept him for a couple of days until a women came and picked him up. The dog had wondered from the ranchers uncle's house which was 5 miles north from where he was found.?ÿ
Sooo, the rancher finally meets the guy who rescued his pup and now we can go anywhere, anytime we want on his property. ?ÿ
Seems the dog never wanders off anymore, frankly where he was found I don't think he would have lasted much longer, it is a good 10 miles east to a house, 4 miles south, and 3 miles west, he would have had to luck out to stumble on someone, which he did from random chance.?ÿ
Simple acts of generosity or kindness can go a long way.?ÿ Part of my requests to enter ranches include the info that we will check windmills, fences, note any ill seeming cattle, or anything else that could be of benefit to them while we are on site.?ÿ I have gained entry a couple of times because I rode my horse, and equaled an almost zero chance of wildfire danger that way.?ÿ I have even been asked to search for a lost bull on 2 occasions.?ÿ My area is generally still full of good people, but in talking to some of these ranchers, some folks requesting entry to their lands lack some courtesies.
