Actually, I started purchasing heifers in 4-H when I was just a young girl, 7, 8, 9 years

old and have always had cattle.

Kimmy Lewis is a rancher in southeast Colorado.

And as if that's not enough, she tends to her neighbors' interests with a key position

in Denver.

Producer Meredith Turk brings us our first on-the-job story from rural America.

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And how here's Meredith Turk with the story of Kimmy Lewis.

Driving south on Highway 109 in Colorado is a surreal experience.

They call this God's country, and I begin to see why.

There's expansive horizons, beautiful grasses, and stark canyons.

Just before Los Animes County, we dip into a canyon that took my breath away.

I could smell a moist desert pine scattered with yucca blossoms.

Well, it looks more like West Texas or Northern New Mexico than it does.

Colorado, everybody thinks Colorado's mountains or plains.

We're part of the short-grasp prairie, but we're part of the purgatory canyon lands.

And so there's, it's beautiful green right now this spring because of all the good moisture

we've received, what a blessing that has been.

But we live in the canyons where there's maces and rocks and trees and cactus and rattlesnakes

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