Wally McRae

[Nameless Range]

I read this morning that Wally McRae passed over the weekend. I didn't know him, though I have friends who did well. When I was a kid, my dad was really into cowboy poetry, so I saw him a couple times.

Co-founded the Northern Plains Resource Council, documented a heritage and way of life, was involved in many of Montana's environmental regulations and laws. Quite the Montanan.

I found this video of him reciting his poem, "Things of Intrinsic Worth", and it seemed apropos to current happenings.

''We need our culture,'' says McRae, a third-generation Montanan. ''I wonder if we can have both it and development. And if we can't, I wonder which is the most important. Much of the time Americans are so economically oriented that they will sacrifice almost any value. But how much is enough? How much money is enough? And what are we willing to sacrifice to get it?" - https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/1120/112059.html

 

[antlerradar]

I have known Wally most of my life. His legacy if far more than can be described.
His Rocker 6 ranch has been in BM since the start of the program. It is likely thousands of hunters have memory's of hunting there.
He was always there to step up for the causes he supported or help a neighbor. His son Clint is now in charge at the Rocker 6, there are always issues on the ranch when the older generation rides off into the sunset. I hope for Clint's sake and the hunters of the state that the issues are minor.
RIP Wally McRae