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About Ladder Ranch
Ladder Livestock Company is a ranching operation in the Little Snake River Valley on the Colorado - Wyoming border near Savery, Wyoming. Members of the Salisbury family have been ranching in this area for over 120 years. A.W. Salisbury came to the area in the mid-1880's and established the original ranching operation.
The ranch is primarily in the business of raising and marketing sheep and cattle. We do some farming, primarily of alfalfa and hay, and use it for winter feed for the livestock.
The home ranch is located at about 7000 feet altitude, which makes for high quality hay, and a short growing season.
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Our History |
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Ranch History |
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When A.W. Salisbury homesteaded in the Little Snake River Valley in 1881, he and his wife Anna Marie were drawn | |
by the rich natural resources of water and grass, the scenic beauty, abundant wildlife and fish, and the promise of a great future for his family. more | |
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The Little Snake River country is isolated, but it played its part in the history of the West. It was hunting grounds for several Indian tribes, though | |
none claimed it exclusively. Ute country lay to the south and west, along the Bear (now Yampa) River. Cheyennes and Sioux ventured over the Continental Divide to seek game. more | | | |
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The ranch headquarters lies in the shadow of Battle Mountain, and affords a view overlooking Squaw Mountain, Sheep Mountain, Battle Creek and the Little Snake River. We raise cattle, sheep, and horses on over 100,000 acres of some of the most beautiful country to be found anywhere. We also have one the largest elk herds located in North America living on and around our range lands.
In addition, Ladder Livestock has been involved in Wyoming's Coordinated Resource Management (CRM) program since March, 1993. Our operation is complex, and this process involves the active stockholders, personnel from two Forest Service Ranger Districts, two Bureau of Land Management Districts, the Wyoming Game and Fish, the Colorado Department of Wildlife, as well as interested parties from the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, the Soil Conservation Service, neighboring ranchers, and several other interested parties.
One of our CRM goals is to develop income from recreation base, since the ranch is abundant in big game and other wildlife species, and is located in a very scenic area. We have been working with a fisheries expert to enhance the four and a half miles of Battle Creek which flow through the Home Ranch. We have found the CRM process to be very helpful in generating ideas and resolving conflicts. |
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