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All About Montana
8 MONTANA SENIOR NEWS • OCTOBER | NOVEMBER 2022

Celebrating Rural Women

BY KATHLEEN MULROY

The United Nations’ International Day
of Rural Women, held on October 15, cele-
brates the commitment, determination, and
strength of rural women around the world.
In Montana, women play a crucial role in
farming, ranching, and conservation. Here
are just a few of these exceptional women
of the land.
TRACY HENTGES
Tracy Hentges, a member of the
Assiniboine tribe, has long been a farmer
and rancher in Frazer, Montana, but she
grew up in rural New York. There she did
chores for her great-uncle at his dairy
farm and for her father, who raised horses
and a few cows, pigs, and chickens. These
experiences made her, as she says, “want
to be a cowboy.”
After moving to the small Montana com-
munity of Wolf Point as a teenager, Hentges
tried a variety of jobs before becoming
involved in range conservation efforts. She
served on the Rangeland Resources Executive
Committee, the Valley County Conservation
District board, and with the Valley County
Committee Farm Service Agency.
She raised horses in the past, but now Callie Russell forages, scavenges, hunts, fishes, and tends her goats, which serve as pack animals and
provide her with milk. Photo courtesy Callie Russell.
specializes in Black Angus crosses and
all-Black Angus cattle, which graze on younger daughters will want to follow in in-depth, practical knowledge of how to
land she and her husband lease from the her footsteps. survive in the wild. These qualities, and her
Fort Peck tribes. The couple also grows CALLIE RUSSELL positive outlook on life, won her a spot on
hay and hard red wheat. Hentges loves the Callie Russell of Flathead, Montana, the seventh season of The History Channel’s
life she leads and says she hopes her two has a deep love of wilderness coupled with reality wilderness survival show, Alone.”

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