Florida Trend, November, 2022 Interview by Art Levy Jim Strickland Rancher, Myakka City I’m 67 years old, and at age 7, I wanted to be what I am now. I always just wanted to be on a horse. My dad was my hero. Dad was smart. He was entrepreneurial. He was a cattleman....
As Florida marks the half-millennium of cattle ranching this year, the industry tackles challenges from development.
Fort Myers Florida Weekly October 13, 2021 BY MARY WOZNIAK mwozniak@floridaweekly.com Read Full Article on Fort Myers Florida Weekly IT ALL BEGAN THAT WINTER DAY in 1521 when Ponce de León came ashore near Charlotte Harbor on Southwest Florida’s coast, looking to...
The First American Cowboys
Flamingo by CRAIG PITTMAN OCTOBER 18, 2021 Read Full Article on Flamingo Florida cattle ranchers hold fast to a 500-year-old American tradition that began in our state and is helping to save its remaining green spaces. On a steamy August morning, as the temperature...
Ranchers carry on history, family legacies
Fort Myers Florida Weekly October 13, 2021 BY MARY WOZNIAK mwozniak@floridaweekly.com Read full article on Fort Myers Florida Weekly This is a tale of two ranches. They are completely different, but each provides a brief glimpse into the cattle rancher’s way of life...
Keeping The Country
Bitter Southerner | January 28, 2020 Story by Michael Adno Photography by Michael Adno & Cavin Brothers In southwest Florida, nothing seemed as central to the Myakka River Valley as mystery and myth. Over the course of centuries, the region has remained largely...
Ranchers vs Environmentalists” is a longstanding trope. But in the Sunshine State, ranching just may be the last, best hope for ecological salvation
…Durando, the rancher who helped start the Florida Conservation Group with Strickland, says that managing his land for wildlife also benefits his cows. For example, when he burns to clear brush, high protein grass grows up that benefits his cattle as well as quail,...
Myakka’s Jim Strickland named Sustainable Rancher of the Year by Audubon Florida.
By Pam Eubanks, Senior Editor, YourObserver.com Wearing his cowboy hat, cattle rancher Jim Strickland rolled through pastureland on the 4,500-acre Blackbeard’s Ranch in eastern Manatee County in his pickup truck.He nodded toward the window. About 50 feet away, deer...
Jim Strickland is a sixth-generation cattle rancher who, alongside fellow ranchers in the Sunshine State, is working to preserve Southwest Florida’s natural habitat
By Katelyn Newman for USN&WR Go To Full Story As the sun begins to rise and the mist breaks on a clear Florida morning, wild turkeys, white-tailed deer and pesky feral pigs rummage for breakfast near Sabal palms and hay bales. Less than a football field...
Ranch Near Myakka River State Park Will Be Preserved Under Conservation Easement
By Zac Anderson Nearly 1,500 acres of cattle ranch close to Myakka River State Park will be protected from development and restored to native habitat after the federal government recently signed off on a conservation easement for the site. The National Resources...
Cattle ranches keep development from wiping out Florida’s beautiful ‘wild places’
I am a sixth-generation Floridian and third-generation Florida cattle rancher. My grandfather founded our ranch, Williamson Cattle Company, in the 1940s. Our family-run ranch is located in Okeechobee County, the heart of Florida’s cattle county. Many people don’t...