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"We finally have an administration that is prioritising farmers and ranchers," he wrote in a statement earlier this year.

Downtown Ojai’s newest hotel, which is also its oldest, stands along Ojai Avenue like a rancher in his best string tie and leather vest.

One of the biggest issues in his district recently, he noted, has been concern over wolves, who have been roaming ranch lands, killing cattle and enraging ranchers and other property owners.

Yet in time, the cattle ranchers fell victim to the emergent boom-and-bust pattern of the Southern California economy.

This flock -- which will be used for shearing, not eating -- comes from a spread up north, where the rancher lets the sheep’s wool grow long so the kids will have something to hold on to.