Re: [DL] Cattle Barons - Marshal looking for help

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> I grew up in ranch country, north central nebraska.

Where in Nebraska?  Were you at NukeCon this last October?

> herds out away from the main ranch.  Now most folks are comfortable in
describing farms in acres, but you probably need  > to start thinking in
sections, thats 640 acres , or 1 square mile.  One ranch I can think of was
over 360 sections.  That would > be a ranch 60 miles by 60 miles, or 100km
by 100km for the metric bunch.  So think big.

Exactly how big is a single acre, anyway?

Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times