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I woke this morning to the morning star and the morning blue sky. A smoke reprieve today. I moved the cows into SBW6 (#1 split). The cows and I are finding a better rhythm with the daily moves. When I show up, but not to move them, they get all noisy. After ignoring them for 15 minutes, they return to grazing.
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I woke to clouds and a small rain shower (very small). More work done on the corridor fence. I spent the afternoon moving the cows one last time (#6) on SBW4.
Zen Full Moon Ceremony. Very smoky in the morning but it cleared a lot with the SE breeze in the afternoon. I can actually see the clouds today. Next split (#5). Though not very abundant, meadowlarks, vespers and grasshopper sparrows, longspurs, and horned larks remain sprinkled about in the grassland.
The smoke and heat continues. Snout moth species are everywhere. They look like fine 3/4 inch twigs when alighted on a plant. The porcupines and the dogs met under the apple tree. The next split (#4).  Snout moth The weather is the same today but a little less hot. Next split (#3) done. Ryan and I started work on a new fence to separate a large riparian area between NBW and SBW units.
More heat and smoke today. I traveled to Circle to facilitate the CMR Community Working Group.
Almost hot today. The smoke lightened a little today. I moved into SBW4 with a fresh split today. As the dry weather continues, we are strip grazing the riparian bottoms and taking advantage of the green feed (now that most of the birds are well past their production time) and putting some pressure on patches of Canadian thistle. The porcupines were in the garden last night.  This morning, the cows broke into the rest of NG5. We will get them back into the "planned" rotation tomorrow. I spent the last two days attending sanghas in Bozeman and Helena.
Warmer today. I moved the cows into the north 3rd of NG5 to graze along the county road.
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Bill Milton
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