As a finale, she declared, "My life turned out pretty good for a
sheepherder!"
DOL addressed
sheepherders in the supplementary information accompanying its 2010 H-2A final rule: "
Sheepherders ...
What remains are reindeer and
sheepherders, a deliquescent service industry, people with second homes and others whose occupations one can only guess at.
As an example of the tragedy of the commons, imagine 2
sheepherders overgrazing the same public field (a common) until the land was overused and could no longer support any livestock.
(Back then, in the 1940s and 1950s, it was common for women to tend the fields and acequias when the men had to leave the villages to seek work as miners, loggers, and
sheepherders in Colorado and Wyoming.) Decades later, people still occasionally fight over this most essential resource.
So Robert Laxalt turned his back on the Manhattan publishing world, founded the University of Nevada Press, and wrote histories of Nevada, novels of ranch life, family portraits, and clear-eyed affectionate depictions of his neighbors, from Basque
sheepherders to the lost souls of Las Vegas.
The livelihoods of
sheepherders in Yemen are being affected by the nine year long Saudi Arabia ban on Yemeni sheep.
"The key is communicating with the
sheepherders," Jay said.
The programs address immigration, aspen ecology, the overlooked role of
sheepherders in Western history, the effects of grazing on the environment, and an array of other subjects.
Lesser known are these carvings in the Great Basin and other mountainous parks of the West, commonly associated with
sheepherders.
Most were
sheepherders or made pickles and arak, an alcoholic drink.
Most people would be very surprised to know that H-1B was modeled after the H visa that allowed ranchers to import Basque
sheepherders. H visas were used mostly for unskilled laborers until the passage of the 1976 Eilberg Amendment which allowed universities to declare perpetual shortages of professors.
It seems almost impossible for a woman like Lange to lead the charge, since her Cajun father was raised on hunting and trapping, and her Wyoming mom comes from a family of
sheepherders.
Yet three years later he collected an Academy Award for helping adapt for the screen Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, a pathetic short story about gay cowboys (actually, western
sheepherders).
