One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
Ranchers and residents live with the consequences of water issues mapped by NASA imaging
Juanita and Jake Crasco have had to reduce their cattle from a high of 1,000 to about 150 over the last 20 years. They attribute a lot of their decisions and their losses to a lack of water, but they're not giving up, even in so-called retirement. "We're still here. We're not going anywhere," Juanita says. Photo by Jule Banville / American Communities.
This story was first published on the nonprofit news organization the American Communities Project. The ACP is working with the University of Maryland on a grant from NASA's Earth Science Applications: Equity and Environmental Justice program to examine how experiences of environmental distress over time interact with other socioeconomic challenges on tribal lands. Reprinted by permission of Montana Free Press.
If you ask Juanita Crasco about the historic and unrelenting drought where she and her husband live and ranch on the Fort Belknap Reservation, she'll talk about her apple tree.
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