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This article is an interview based analysis of a Southern Colorado, Female Cattle Rancher, Betsy Brown. It specifically focuses on three elements of her life: her experience with sustainable land management practices, her experience with gender equality within the cattle ranching profession, and her insight into conservation easement land designations. The conclusions of the study are that Betsy Brown heavily invests in sustainable land management curriculum as it pertains to how she manages her own ranching activity. She states that her relationship to increased feelings of gender equality in her workplace, career as well as in her marriage stem from sustainable land management principles. Betsy Brown also connects holistic management principles she has invested in to explain her approval and personal endorsement of conservation easement land designations. These narrative conclusions are analyzed under the lenses of cultural ecology and Marxist-feminism theory to position Betsy Brown’s personal history within academic discussions on sustainability, gender equality, and conservation.

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