Buy a salt block at a feed store and you might be out $10. But after an animal has licked it? Why, then it becomes modern art. Salt blocks – those 50-pound cubes of salt offered to livestock and ...

They were sculpted not from clay or stone but from blocks of salt left out by ranchers for cattle, horses, goats or other animals to lick with their tongues or nibble bites out of in fenced ...

This Saturday, the annual Great Salt Lick auction and contest will take place in Baker City in Eastern Oregon. Whit Deschner, a retired commercial fisherman, poet and photographer, created the ...