Brad Phelps remembers sage grouse numbering in the hundreds in the uplands of his family’s 700-acre cattle ranch when he was a teenager. “Twenty years later, it was 12 birds,” Phelps says. But Phelps, ...

GILBERT, AZ (AZFamily) — A herd of unexpected visitors is causing a commotion in a Gilbert neighborhood. Free-range cows are eating landscaping, blocking traffic and pooping wherever they please.

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Open range vs. closed range. It is a concept that has been fought over and debated since the early days of trail drives and cattle barons in the 1800s. Texas is an open-range state, which means just ...