Country Lifestyles
May 2018 Profile: Miko & Me – Bree Worthington Clay
By Jessica Crabtree
The month of May we honor the hard working, caring, giving women that selflessly does for others day after day. Those ladies earned the right to be honored. This issue we feature an extraordinary woman and mother. This mom has a background in trick riding horseback and training buffalos to stand on a pedestal, leap through rings of fire and be ridden. Bree Worthington Clay comes from a family heritage invested in rodeo in one form or another. Her father Mark Worthington rodeoed while her mother Dottie ran barrels and was also a rodeo secretary. Raised in Weatherford, Clay started trick riding at only five years old. Even more impressive, as a youth, Clay received her PRCA card at 10 years old. This August the now grown woman will celebrate her 40th birthday and recently received her PRCA gold card. She has accomplished feat after feat at a young age and at a high rate of speed.
While her parents were largely influential in the horsewoman’s life, JW Stoker is who Clay attributes her ability to trick ride to. “He [JW Stoker] was a famous performer throughout the 90s. He is 90 now and retired here in Weatherford. He trained me,” Clay explained. Always having her father close for help and support, at age 16 she recalled a defining moment, “At 16 my dad said, ‘You’re on your own.’ I realized then he’d been training me to go out on my own the whole time,”‘ she smiled.
While Clay describes herself as a home-body, someone who doesn’t prefer social engagements and crowds, she exuded strength and shined while atop her trusted horses when performing her many maneuvers trick riding. Soon, the young lady took to the rodeo road, performing as the entertainment portion during a rodeo. Her ability permitted her to join a Wild West show, first traveling to upstate New York for six months with the show, and later Las Vegas, Nev., for another six months. While in Nevada the young lady began attending college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Academically, she also attended Tarleton State University where she met a track runner who would become her husband.
Traveling with the rodeo circuit and Wild West show introduced Clay to new people who became friends and allowed her to visit her extended family in Georgia. Performing rodeo after rodeo and staying months away from home, Georgia became her second home.
To read more pick up a copy of the May 2018 NTFR issue. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
Clay with her 17-year-old buffalo, Miko. (Photo by Jessica Crabtree)
By Martha Crump
That old adage, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.,” may have some basis in truth when applied to minor situations. However, when what you don’t know is presented in the form of a “Trojan Horse” and is what amounts to an incredible attempt to fleece American property rights, it becomes a different story altogether.
To put this unbelievable tale together, we need to step back to Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order which pledged commitment to help restore balance on public lands and waters, to create jobs, and to provide a path to align the management of America’s public lands and waters with our nation’s climate, conservation, and clean energy goals.
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By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
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By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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