Okay the Wet Mountain Valley is known for its hay production. It's not actually a desert, and even if it was, it should be scrub-steppe that would provide browse for the alpacas. There is no fucking reason that the land should be barren like that.
This is land that has too many animals, it hasn't been worked in any way, shape or form, and the people who own it have no fucking clue what they're doing.
They need to stop buying fucking Transformers and a fuckton of Milwaukee power tools and instead invest in a goddamn tractor and some hayseed. And I don't want to hear shit about water - there's a reservoir directly south of them and if they didn't secure (or even investigate) their water rights before purchasing the land then they're even stupider than I thought possible. And that's pretty fucking stupid.
(Normally I'd laugh at their property not having any water rights because these city troons were too ignorant to check before buying the land, but not if the alpacas are suffering. This ranch could actually be self sustaining, if not profitable, but they don't have a single knowledgeable, experienced, or even intelligent-enough-to-learn person there capable of doing what needs to be done.)