Ranching Feature: There’s just hardly anything better than a cow

MEEKER I Denise Pearce knows her stuff.
She should. She learned from one of the best.
Pearce followed in the footsteps of her late father, Tom, and operates the family’s cattle ranch.
“He was a teacher,” she said.
Neighbor Sam Stranathan agreed.
“He’s the best neighbor I ever had,” Stranathan said. “He taught me everything I know.…