Jim Fipp

Back when Jim was a student at Cal Poly, his being introduced in the ring as “Chicken Man” at the University’s quarter horse show was a near disaster.  While it happened that he had perfect scores in poultry science, he was serious about animal science and his horses.  So serious in fact, that he spent summers as a cowboy on thirty thousand acres of ranch in Idaho where a horse was still an integral part of managing cattle and hardly anyone had heard of chickens.  Following collegiate sports, labs and classes, Jim lived in a series of small towns in Texas, Alberta, Colorado and Iowa working as an animal nutritionist and business manager, pretty much anywhere where railroad tracks and grain towers crossed on the plains.  Jim Fipp, his herding dog, Lobo, and his camera have put 150,000 miles on his diesel pickup, making friends and doing business ever alert for better fly fishing and hunting venues.  He’s back to being a student, now at the University of Wyoming College of Law, but keeps his soul at rest with snapshots he’s taken in his travels.