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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee

Ed Borba’s hat, mustache, oversized belt buckle and boots suggest a rancher. The bumper sticker on his truck completes the picture. It reads, “Eat Beef: The West Wasn’t Won on Salad.”

The cattleman’s West, though, hasn’t been won definitively.

Borba and others in El Dorado County are fighting to preserve the ranching way of life and its contribution to the local economy. The struggle is against development pressures, and they’ve found allies among the environmentalists who have often been the enemies of ranchers.

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