Ranchers across the West often truck their cows hundreds of miles to meatpacking facilities that slaughter, butcher and package the meat for sale. The highway miles add financial burden to an industry that already struggles for economic sustainability.
Author Archives: Hailey Smalley
Hailey Smalley is a freelance environmental journalist and graduate student in the University of Montana’s environmental and natural resources journalism program. She has contributed to the Missoula Current and Montana Public Radio. Prior to pursuing journalism, Hailey was an environmental educator and naturalist with several nonprofits throughout the American West.