(no audio) (loud engine) (door slams) - [Female Speaker] I do kind of have these moments where I feel like it's cruel and, you know, to ask this of them to do this every year.

(squeaking) (engine revs) (soothing piano) (soothing piano continues) (soothing piano continues) (joyous music) (joyous music continues) Maybe I'm hard on myself when I say that I'm not a rancher.

I kind of have this image in my mind of what a rancher looks like.

I guess I look at some of the other ranchers or families that ranch, that have been doing it for a long time.

(chuckles) I mean, I am, I guess my title's a Ranch Manager, so I guess I'm a rancher, yeah.

(flies buzzing) I am envious of the fourth-generation knowledge, and just that attachment to a place that gives you this knowledge of, you know, how the environment works.

There's this amazing rhythm on ranches.

It's not just the seasons, but it's where the cattle are grazing, and I sense that is really ingrained in some of the old timers.

I don't know that it's necessary, but I guess I'm a little envious of that.

(wind gusting) Steer.

Did you have a hard time coming out?

That's a kind of a big calf.

(chuckles) - [Male Speaker] Pretty good size.

- That says 85.

- Oh, I don't know- - but I don't- - that it reads that much.

- think so.

I'd say it's between 65, 70, yeah?

- Yeah.

- [Male Speaker] Hi.

(calf moos) (wind gusts) - [Female Speaker] The first year that I worked here we were in the bar.

It was all guys, and I was the only girl standing in this group.

And the one guy made some comment after I'd been talking for a minute that I must have the owners of this ranch fooled.

You know, I must have talked my way into this position.

And I've definitely gotten little jabs like that quite a bit.

I wore a skirt one time to a meeting, and a guy said, "You don't look very ranchy today."

And I wanted to say (muted) you.

(laughs) There's, like, a look, and if you don't have that look, then you must not be legit.

(no audio) (no audio continues) I grew up in downtown Salt Lake City.

My dad is a total animal person, but my mom, like, watching her pet something is painful, like, you feel sorry for the animal.

(laughs) (bacon sizzling) I think what got me here was definitely, like, this instinctual part of me that was drawn to being around animals and wanting to care for them.

I've cried more over wanting a horse and wanting to be around horses, I think, than over anything in my entire life.

- [Man On Laptop] He's bought a 22-foot Mecate, and a pair of slobber straps, and you want to put 'em on your snaffle bit.

Take one end of the Mecate, thread it through the left side then to the right side, going from the inside to the outside.

That gives you your rein and your tail, and you can stick this around the saddle horn.

(twangy guitar) (twangy guitar continues) ("Black Jack David" by Warren Smith) ♪ Black Jack David come around through the woods ♪ ♪ Singing so loud and merry ♪ ♪ His voice kept a-ringing through the green, green trees ♪ ♪ He spied a fair-haired maiden ♪ ♪ He spied a fair-haired maiden ♪ ♪ Would you forsake your husband, dear ♪ ♪ Would you forsake your baby ♪ - [Female Speaker] Some people are surprised sometimes that, you know, I'm the boss of, you know, two men.

And, you know, spend my days surrounded by, you know, most of the time all men.

And, you know, find myself kicking dirt in social situations that are very, very different to the ones that I experienced growing up.

("Black Jack David" by Warren Smith) People wonder how I, you know, have been able to adjust.

I, like, left and never went back, so I dunno.

(laughs) ♪ Yes, I'll forsake my husband, dear ♪ ♪ And I'll forsake my baby ♪ ♪ I'll forsake my fine, fine home ♪ ♪ And go with you Black Jack David ♪ ♪ Go with you Black Jack David ♪ (pins crashing) (crowd cheers) ♪ Last night she slept on a fine, feathered bed ♪ ♪ Beside her husband and baby ♪ ♪ Tonight she slept on the cold, cold ground ♪ ♪ Beside old Black Jack David ♪ ♪ Beside old Black Jack David ♪ - [Female Speaker] Like, with the politics situation recently, I was just explaining to a friend a conversation that I had with a neighbor.

And she was just like, "I can't even relate to what that would be like, to sit across a table from somebody like that."

(laughs) (background laughter) ("Black Jack David" by Warren Smith) (music ends) (rooster crows) (kettle whistles) (no audio) (background radio announcer) (cow moos) (cow moos) Sorry!

(cow moos) (truck rattles) (wind gusts) (continuous tone) (soothing music) I feel a sense of calm being out with the cows.

(uplifting music) I also regularly feel a large sense of responsibility.

Sometimes my actions or my level of care is the difference between life and death for some of these new calves being born.

(uplifting music continues) One in particular, you know, the calf was really off to a rough start, and I sat up with it for most of the night, had it in the bathtub, and only for it to die in the morning.

And those experiences are really hard.

Death is always hard, yeah.

(uplifting music continues) (uplifting music continues) (uplifting music continues) (uplifting music continues) Oh, there it went.

(uplifting music continues) All right, mama, you gotta move.

If she doesn't get up here shortly, I'll probably go over.

'Cause the baby can suffocate if she doesn't lick off the bag off of its face.

Oh!

(laughs) (uplifting music continues) (uplifting music continues) Just doesn't get old watching it.

And the resiliency that they have, and their ability to just, off instincts, figure it out so quickly.

(uplifting music continues) (quiet soothing music) At the end of the day, as much as I still am, like, "Well, maybe I'm not a rancher yet."

Almost all the other ranches in this valley are cow, calf operations, so they're in the business of raising and selling calves.

And I think I'm confident enough to say that I think I do it just as good, if not better, than a lot of them.

So if you were to put a job description together for a rancher, I think I would check most of the boxes successfully, I guess.

(mellow music) As much as I'm comfortable here and I see myself here, I still sometimes am like, "Whoa, like, I'm here."

And you know, is this forever?

(soothing music)