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Dear Fellow Members and Industry Supporters, s we embark on this new year, our 101st, which will undoubtedly come with new challenges and opportunities, I wanted to reflect on our first 100 years once more. As an organization, NMCGA owes a deep debt of gratitude to each and every one of you and your families for the part you have played in helping to make the industry that we have today an enduring and irreplaceable part of New Mexico’s history.

Without your commitment to this organization and your grassroots efforts back home it would have been impossible to grow the industry while concurrently protecting our individual businesses, collective rights and interests.

We are also grateful to those individuals, such as our past presidents, boards of directors’, staff and volunteers who have provided the leadership and stability that has made NMCGA the voice of the beef industry and its issues in New Mexico and beyond.

I’d also like to acknowledge those entities like the NM Livestock Board, NM Department of Agriculture, Range Improvement Task Force, Cooperative Extension and others who have helped us with the science, animal health and land management practices that modernized and added value and longevity to our individual businesses.

Hats off to all of you!

Back in November I told you about Senate Bill 776, introduced by New Mexico’s two US Senators, seeking to establish yet another wilderness area in this state, the so-called Columbine-Hondo Wilderness of 45,000 acres in Taos County. Fast forward to mid-December and the proposed wilderness designation became part of the 2015 CRomnibus Appropriations Bill which has now been signed by the President of the United States.

Not only did our senators manage to get their wilderness area added to the appropriations bill, they also managed to circumvent the Valles Caldera National Preserve’s mandate to serve as a working ranch by having the property transferred to the National Park Service. The change in designation and management of both properties have long been on the wish list of many radical environmental groups in New Mexico who have both vocally and quietly sought the removal of cattle from the landscape.

Emboldened by their recent victories in congress and the actions of the federal administration, “Gang Green”, as they are sometimes referred to, is now poised to add another 120,000 acres of wilderness in New Mexico with the assistance of our congressional delegation. The plan is to expand the existing 224,000-acre Pecos Wilderness by designating adjacent lands which will be added from Taos, Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties.

As this state’s true land managers we need to re-double our efforts to educate our Washington delegation, and New Mexican’s in general, that the health and beauty of our landscapes is derived from active resource management, not by special designation or theme park status which preserves nothing for the future, because you can’t preserve a landscape without managing it.

In closing, every January brings with it the annual legislative session in the state capital and the multitude of issues that confront us as cattlemen, property owners and New Mexicans. As always, we will have a full contingent of seasoned veterans representing our industry’s interests. President-elect Pat Boone will be leading the charge. If you’d like to help Pat and the team from home we always need folks to read upcoming legislation and make calls to legislators on bills that impact our interests. And you’re always welcome to make the trip to Santa Fe to see how we’re doing and learn the ropes.

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Professor Tribe’s Opinion That ‘EPA’s Clean Power Plan Is Unconstitutional’ Means More Than You Think

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to write an analysis concluding that “the EPA acts as though it has the legislative authority to re-engineer the nation’s electric generating system and power grid. It does not.”

It’s more certain that Tribe had concluded that before Peabody came knocking at his door with buckets of money. It’s even more certain that the EPA was not the primary target of Tribe’s wrath, but that it was aimed directly at his 1989 research assistant at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama.

That won’t make sense unless you know the back-story, and only a handful do. Among the hundreds of in-depth profiles I’ve done to expose the Left, Laurence Tribe is my favorite, but one I decided not to make public. And then Heartland Institute’s Joe Bast told me about Tribe’s op-ed

in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Clean Power Plan Is Unconstitutional.” It’s time.

Barack Obama got into Harvard Law School mostly because he was a “legacy,” the offspring of an alumnus: his father Barack Obama Sr., earned a master’s degree in economics from Harvard University. Harvard accepts 40 percent of all legacies that apply, but only 11 percent of all applicants.

In the spring of his first year at law school, Obama stopped by the office of Professor Laurence Tribe – recognized as the nation’s foremost liberal constitutional law scholar – about becoming a research assistant. Tribe rarely hired firstyear students. An L1 – first year law stucontinued on page 18

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dent – doesn’t get a constitutional law class. But Tribe recalls “being struck by Obama’s unusual combination of intelligence, curiosity and maturity.”

He was so impressed in fact, that he hired Obama on the spot – and wrote his name and phone number on his calendar that day – March 31, 1989 – “for posterity.”

(And no, he didn’t really know that posterity might be interested.)

Laurence Henry Tribe is not easily impressed. He literally wrote the book on constitutional law: he’s the author of American Constitutional Law, the most frequently cited treatise in that field, has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court at least 34 times, and is noted for his extensive support of liberal legal causes including environmental law.

Obama must have impressed Tribe with something more than his weird history of being born in Hawaii with an African father, his childhood in Jakarta with an Indonesian stepfather, and being raised by white grandparents who sent him to elite Punahou prep school in Honolulu and helped him through Occidental and Columbia universities.

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Tribe had his own weird history. He was born in Shanghai, China, to Jewish immigrants from Europe. His father was Polish and had lived in the United States when very young, long enough to become a naturalized citizen in his early 20s. Tribe’s mother was Russian, and considerably younger than his father. They met and married in her hometown in Soviet Russia in 1940.

Then Stalin’s massive 1941 deportation of ethnic groups including Jews forced them to Shanghai – luckily avoiding Siberia – where Laurance was born in October, just before Pearl Harbor and the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. The father, who was proud of being an American, irritated the Japanese, who put him in a concentration camp as a noncombatant enemy alien, leaving his infant son trapped in Shanghai’s French Quarter with his mother, stateless persons.

Young Laurance and mother were allowed only two visits with the father during all of World War II. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tribe’s father was released and reunited with his wife and child. As an American citizen, the father obtained transport to San Francisco. The three Tribes left Shanghai in March, 1947 on the steamship SS General Gordon.

Laurance spoke only Russian when he arrived in America a little before turning six – back in Shanghai, he had been a bratty kid who refused to learn English in kindergarten – but once in San Francisco, he refused to speak Russian any more, and quickly learned English. He later went to Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, became a naturalized United States citizen, graduated from Harvard College (1962, mathematics, summa cum laude), and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1966, magna cum laude, then worked for a while at the National Academy of Sciences, and finally became an assistant professor at Harvard Law School (1968), receiving tenure in 1972.

That beats Obama for weird by light years. And it proves anybody can become one of America’s preeminent constitutional legal scholars.

Tribe hired Obama for exactly the reasons he said: intelligence, curiosity, and maturity; because this icon of left-wing legal theories was preparing to write a fantastic paper that would require a diligent, observant, and daring researcher open to serendipity, the happy quality of finding more than you were looking for. Tribe was continued on page 20

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about to go out on a limb and wanted researchers who would go with him.

The paper would be titled The Curvature of Constitutional Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics – which is the zaniest title you’ll find anywhere in the pages of the Harvard Law Review. It would argue that strict constructionist interpretations of the U.S. Constitution were obsolete, being based on the rigid old Newtonian world-view, and needed to be replaced by more modern

relativistic notions of curved space and quantum physics concepts of indeterminacy, which would release judges from the original intent of the Founders.

The paper compared Einstein’s theory that space is curved by large masses (such as the sun) to Tribe’s theory that courts shape the cultural “space” of institutions with “massive” rulings (such as segregation). The point was that major court rulings build social institutions, change perceptions of morality, and unjustly displace some people in the process, just as the sun makes starlight curve around its mass and displaces it from what Newtonian physics

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The paper also emphasized quantum theory’s discovery that the process of studying an object changes its behavior in unpredictable ways, and compared that to a court reaching into society with powerful rulings and creating unpredictable consequences – like post-Civil War Jim Crow laws that led to a century of black struggle for civil rights, replete with murders, riots, revolutionary movements, bombings, and assassinations. These, Tribe asserted, should be repaired by broad constructionist interpretations of the U.S. Constitution.

When the article appeared in the November 1989 Harvard Law Review, Tribe’s mix of his mathematical expertise with his legal intellect was recognized by the cognoscenti as not so far-fetched as it seemed, but cleverly breathing new life into old liberal arguments – and it did: nearly 200 law reviews and periodicals subsequently cited the article, and four courts have cited it.

In Tribe’s acknowledgments stood the name of Barack Obama for “analytic and research assistance.” It guaranteed that Obama would graduate magna cum laude and got him selected in his first year at law school as an editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, of which he later became president.

The politically immature Obama learned more about the Constitution by helping Tribe research this sprawling 39page, densely argued treatise – with its references to Supreme Court cases, court influences on society, the role of cultural anthropology, and the findings of physicists Stephen Hawking and Werner Heisenberg – than he would learn in his actual constitutional law class the next year.

He got to watch the mind of a brilliant left-wing legal icon at the height of his powers construct a sophisticated constitutional frame of reference that could be applied to government and achieve a Leftist revolution in the real world by legal means. The problem was that, when Obama gained the power to apply this knowledge, he didn’t use it to curve constitutional space, but to destroy the document in the fire of his dictatorial power lust. That, I assert, is something Laurence Tribe could not allow.

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aking a difference. That’s what the New Mexico CowBelles have been doing since Pat Nowlin started the first local in our state in 1957. For 58 years, dedicated and passionate BEEF supporters have been participating in Ag Days, doing Father’s Day promotions, and hosting booths at health fairs.

Countless women spending infinite hours, tirelessly talking about the nutrition of beef and how well ranchers take care of their cattle and land.

What a storied tradition we have as an organization that “makes a difference.”

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national level.

Also a big thank you goes out to all of our local presidents, committee chairmen, and last year[‘s officers for their time and efforts. In particular Lyn Greene deserves a huge measure of gratitude for serving as our treasurer for the last five years. I hope to do as well as those that have come before me and I appreciate the opportunity to serve as your president. Do you have an idea, suggestion, or activity you would like to propose? Give me call, or drop me a line – I’d like to hear from you.

Our next opportunity to make a difference comes on February 17 with AgFest in Santa Fe. We will have a booth and would love your help. If you’re free on that evening, please join us to spread awareness of BEEF during this legislative reception.

Contact Anita, she’s coordinating our outreach efforts this year.

Together let’s continue to make a difference.

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ber 9, 2015, with 15 members and two precious, little bitty CowBelles present. Bec Campbell graced the meeting with lovely Christmas piano music. Toni Barrow called the meeting to order at 10:50 a.m.

The CowBelle Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, and the CowBelle Creed were recited. Toni gave a report on the NMBC meeting. She shared other business. Toni said that dues are now past due. She mentioned the program idea list that is being passed around. Mark Barrow joined our

meeting. He is looking good and healing up. Carolyn Chance presented a banner that educates the public on the everyday products that come from beef steers. The price is $120. It was decided to purchase the banner. The group is praying for Anna Sanchez and decided to donate to the Pat Nowlin fund in her mother’s honor. Lindsey reported that the funeral was moving and beautiful and that Anna’s mother was a special gift to the agricultural industry.

Toni adjourned the meeting at 12:20 p.m. Respectfully submitted by Babbi Baker The Frisco CowBelle’s held their Nov.

meeting on Nov. 17, 2014. The following items were discussed: Correspondence – received a Thank You note from Ronnie Cheryl about the Gayle Moore memorial.

Update on member Nita’s condition. The group wishes her the best. Update on the Charmayne James Barrel Racing workshop was tabled, discussion will continue in January. Christmas Party invites will be in the mail with all of the information.

The party will be held on Dec. 12, 2014 at the Alma Grill in Alma, NM. New Business Members were told of the Reserve FFA’s fundraiser. It is a dinner and dance with many drawings. This will be held on Sat. Dec. 13, 2014 at the Catron County Fair Barn. Profits will go to support the local youth and agriculture. Respectfully submitted by Martha A Stewart, Frisco CowBelle Reporter The December meeting of the Chamiza CowBelles was called to order at 11:05 a.m. by President Gloria Petersen at the Elephant Butte Inn. All recited the Pledge of Allegiance and Wanda Taylor led us in the CowBelle Prayer and CowBelle Creed.

Both the November minutes and treasurer’s reports were approved as read. Gloria reported she had tallied and turned in the volunteer sheets. She also attended the 2014 Joint Stockmen Convention in Albuquerque and presented highlights from her trip. The upcoming district meeting will be held in April rather than in March.

The Beef Ambassador contest will be held in April and applicants aren’t required to be a 4-H or FFA member. The NM Beef Council’s only project now is Kids, Kows and More. The state fair booth became too expensive to support. The State CowBelle dues will increase in 2016 from $15 to $20.

The Women in Agriculture Leadership Conference will be held May 27 and 28.

Gloria encouraged all to attend. It was decided for the group to purchase an ANCW Associate Membership at a cost of $150. Jacqueline reported the facebook page she set up is becoming quite popular.

She intends to post photos of some of the merchandise for sale as well as group photos. In preparation for the upcoming district meeting, it was decided to purchase tote bags and begin collecting “goodies” for them. Meeting adjourned at 12:05 p.m. followed by lunch and a gift exchange.

Submitted by Cathy Pierce The Otero CowBelles held their Christmas Party and 2015 officer installation at Margo’s Restaurant in Alamogordo Dec 11.

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lots of laughs. Yvonne Oliver installed the officers: Linda Lee, Pres.; Susan Rodgers, 1st VP; Debi Rube, 2nd VP; Kelly Knight, sec and Estelle Bond, treas. Yvonne presented the CowBelle “Bell Ringer� of the

year award to Estelle Bond for all of her efforts in 2014. Debi Rube was named 2014 New Mexico CowBelle of the Year. It was a very emotional time for Debi, she said she couldn’t even think of what to say and was so surprised that her husband, Jary, and her brother, Jim and grand-nieces, Devon and Sara were there to congratulate her.

Otero CowBelles additionally received the 2014 membership award. The push is on as Estelle and Debi are presenting BEEF nutrition/education program for the Rotary Club on the 18th of December and a group is planning to hand out bags for 500 students at local health fairs in January. The group is fortunate to be able to use the conference room at Nancy Cookson’s office to pack the information bags.

The local grocery store, Lowe’s, keeps beef information and CowBelle membership forms on the butcher counter and Debi sees that the displays are stocked at all times. The group’s sympathy goes out to Patty Posey whose husband R.L. passed away on December 10. The Otero CowBelles wish all of you a healthy and Happy New Year! Submitted by Barbara Wagner New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com the 14th of ■each month.

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Is a Wildlife Enterprise on Your Farm or Ranch Right for You?

ing a hunting experience on your private property is to assess the diversity, quality and quantity of wildlife resources present.

As an initial assessment determine the different wildlife species present, a best guess on population size, male:female:young ratios and trophy status of individual animals and the amount of time and seasons the species are present on your property.

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by SAMUEL T. SMALLIDGE, to expertly assess your wildlife resources.

WILDLIFE EXTENSION SPECIALIST, Once you have completed the initial NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY assessment consider your newly gained f you are fortunate enough to have knowledge against your vision of the type wildlife on your property that others are of wildlife enterprise you are planning to interested in hunting or viewing then a create. Hunting-based wildlife enterprises wildlife enterprise may be a way to gener- fall under two basic categories: the trophy ate additional income. Integrating a hunt or the opportunity hunt. Opportuwildlife enterprise into a ranch or farm nity hunts are such that clients will likely operation could potentially diversify see numerous game animals some of income with minimal impact to fixed costs which will be legally harvestable, but few if and variable costs primarily being deter- any trophy quality animals. Upland game mined by the amenities associated with hunts fall under this category. These types the enterprise. The presence of desirable of wildlife enterprises may not bring the wildlife species allows you to promote and premium that trophy hunts can but may sell a marketable product that you have be quite successful if marketed with the under current management. Specifically, proper suite of amenities to the appropriyou are selling access, ate population demoopportunity and an graphic. Trophy hunts experience, but not are hunts in which Providing a quality wildlife. No one individclients may reasonably ual owns wildlife in New trophy hunt with expect to see trophy Mexico, but rather the quality animals during New Mexico Depart- superior amenities their hunt. Past eviment of Game and Fish will bring a dence of trophy animals holds all wildlife in trust being harvested, such premium. for citizens of the state. as photographs and Possible enterprises official measurements, include hunting, photo will demonstrate the safaris, or bird watching access all of trophy status of the hunt. Claiming that which may include a host of amenities you provide trophy hunts without being from daily access to multiple course able to produce trophies will ensure your gourmet meals, 5-star lodging accommo- wildlife enterprise is short lived. Providing dations and transportation. Writing a a quality trophy hunt with superior ameniwildlife enterprise balance sheet that esti- ties will bring a premium. mates costs and revenue from your Three general strategies exist for manplanned operation will greatly aid you in aging hunts and hunters on your property. determining the advisability of pursuing Each strategy has advantages and disadsuch an enterprise based on expected prof- vantages. Option one: contract with an itability. The following discussion will outfitter by selling your landowner tags focus on assessing and planning for hunt- and assessing a property access fee for each ing-based wildlife enterprises. tag. If you know and trust the outfitter, Fixed costs, such as land, are not likely this strategy may be hard to beat. The prito increase with the addition of a wildlife mary advantage is someone else does the enterprise. The number, type of hunts and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;heavy lifting.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Disadvantages may include associated amenities will determine vari- less profit and day-to-day control and able costs associated with the wildlife knowledge of activities on your property enterprise. The price you are able to during the hunt. Option two: hire an charge may vary widely depending on the employee to handle the hunting enterquality of the experience offered and the types and quality of amenities. The first step in determining the potential for sell-

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Passing on the Tradition

by JIM LANE, THE LANE TRUST GROUP all is easily my favorite time of the year. Leaves are changing. The temperatures are finally starting to cool down. Fishing is picking up. Most of all, however, the cool breeze of fall brings with it the beginning of a new hunting season.

A truly magical time for me, hunting season is a time to get in the field and enjoy the incredible gifts of the outdoors given to us from God himself. It is an opportunity to spend quality time with my family and friends, sharing the successes of past seasons over campfires and creating new memories of a lifetime hunting deer, elk, and pronghorn or chasing grouse and quail. Hunting is more than the kill. It is watching the natural world wake up around you at sunrise, it is appreciating seeing wildlife in a setting other than a zoo, it is learning and acquiring the skill to read sign, to track animals, and to possibly bring home meat to feed you and your family. If the tradition of hunting is passed on the right way, it teaches you things every time you go into the field regardless of your success that day in bagging your quarry.

As I have grown older, I have had the incredible blessing of taking my children with me. From the time they could walk, they have been in camp and have grown up understanding where a fair portion of the meat on our table comes from â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an animal I (and now we) killed, processed, and put in the freezer for us to enjoy over the months leading to the next hunting season. In raising them, I have grown to appreciate my responsibility to pass on the tradition and role of hunting, the respect of the game we harvest, and the foundational necessity of building lasting relationships (and lifelong friendships) with the landowners who take care of our wildlife and give us the opportunity to hunt on their land.

That responsibility and my career as a wildlife professional has led me to believe we have fallen down over much of the West at creating a new generation of responsible hunters and passing on the tradition of hunting that has built the most successful model of wildlife conservation the world has ever known. It is not all doom and gloom, nor is it too late, but I feel quite strongly that we must start addressing the challenge now. We can start by changing

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OPEN GATE PROGRAM OVERVIEW New Mexico Department of Game and Fishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (NMDGF) Open Gate program is a voluntary program available to landowners that leases access to private property for properly licensed sportsmen and women to hunt, fish, or trap. Landowners who work with the NMDGF through Open Gate receive an annual lease payment and are provided liability protection from the State. Leases generally run for the duration of one license year; however, longer-term agreements that cover multiple license years may be available under some conditions.

Open Gate works with landowners to create a customized lease agreement tailored to meet their individual needs and protect their interests. Landowners may specify the types of activities that are permitted on their property and dictate the seasons for which the property is open. Landowners may elect to lease some or all of their property. Access is permitted only on leased acreage during open seasons. Sportsmen are expected to act responsibly and comply with the rules when using an Open Gate property. Game Wardens patrol Open Gate properties during open seasons enforcing the rules.

habitat on their property. This component compliments farm bill cost share programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP). The NMDGF can partner with a landowner through Open Gate to help pay up to 50% of the landownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costs for habitat improvement projects if they enter into a long-term hunting or fishing lease (5 years or longer).

renewed annually until available funds for the current year are expended. The NMDGF will prioritize leases that are located reasonably close to populated areas, in areas with limited access, and that have the potential to offer a wide variety of activities. All applications are evaluated by the NMDGF, prioritized and ranked depending upon benefits the proposed lease provides to the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sportsmen and women.

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Under some circumstance, Open Gate may pay for right-of-way across private property to gain access to large tracts of public land with limited accessibility.

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he Gelbvieh breed originated in Germany. It was one of the German breeds that was developed using index genetic selection, as were the Fleckvieh and Braunvieh.

This concept allows negatively correlated traits, such as milk production and muscling to be advanced simultaneously, by using a weighed index. This index will allow each trait a “weight” based on its heritability and economic importance.

In Germany it is a red color breed, in the United States color restrictions were removed and we rely instead in the percentage of Gelbvieh as our purity standard.

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back in the 1960s and like the myriad of breeds that were imported at that time, they were incorporated in the Germ Plasm Evaluation at Clay Center, NebraskaFederal Research Laboratory.

As the comparative results started to be published, it became evident that one cross appeared to be positive in both the maternal and growth sides of the equation.

It seemed to be the optimum balance between the maternal side and the growth and carcass side. That cross was the Gelbvieh-Angus hybrid.

The concept was embraced by the American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) and the name Balancer became the registered trademark name for this cross. The American Gelbvieh Association defines the Balancer as an animal arising from registered Angus and Gelbvieh seedstock, with 1/8 maximum of an outside breed. The blood composition can range from 3/4 Angus to 1/4 Gelbvieh to 1/4 Angus to 3/4 Gelbvieh.

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tains a herdbook for both breeds complete with pedigrees and one of the most comprehensive genetic data systems of any breed.

Recent reports from the Clay Center, Nebraska studies have shown that Gelbvieh is the only one of the popular breeds to have reduced cow size in the last 20 years. Since the biggest component of a cow’s nutrition requirements is maintenance, cow size must be kept in check to prevent cow requirements to exceed what the environment supplies, especially in the marginal lands of the West and Northern Mexico.

Initially, the Gelbvieh and Balancer concepts were embraced in Western Canada , the Dakotas and down to Missouri and Kansas. As feed inputs became expensive the quest for more efficient cows have extended their appeal to many Southeastern States, the West and Northern Mexico.

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38 . . . . . CODE OF ETHICS 39 . . . . . BOARD OF DIRECTORS 39 . . . . . PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 39 . . . . . WE’RE WORKING FOR YOU 41 . . . . . HUNTING IN NEW MEXICO 47 . . . . . 4 SEASONS OF FLY FISHING IN . . . . . . . NORTHERN NEW MEXICO 51 . . . . . 2015 NEW MEXICO OUTFITTERS & . . . . . . . GUIDES MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY

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While both New Mexico Stockman and the New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides strive to provide accurate information and ensure accurate advertising, the publisher or council cannot be held responsible for the ultimate quality of the products or information contained in this publication. Neither the council, it’s officers, directors, or contractors are guarantors of your satisfaction with the products advertised herein.

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NMCOG Mission Statement

The aim and purpose of the New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides is to promote and protect the professional hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation industry in New Mexico while improving the state’s valuable wildlife and habitat resources. We serve as an advocate for the industry by maintaining high ethical standards and insuring a quality outdoor experience for the client. Our goal is to enhance the image of professional hunting, to educate the public on the environmental and economic benefits provided by the industry, to better the professional pursuits of our members, and to help preserve New Mexico’s rich heritage of hunting, fishing, and outdoor activities. For more information please visit our website www.nmoutfitters.com. You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!

ll the A big Thank You to ahunting/ ed t a n o d o h w s r e t t i f t u O il if shing trips for Counc fundraising in 2014.

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Outfitters & Guides Code of Ethics 1 . The outfitter and guide will utilize knowledge and skill for the benefit of the public and the profession they serve. They will cooperatively strive to extend the public knowledge and appreciation of the profession.

2 . The outfitter and guide will be loyal to the client or employer and perform the job to the best of their ability at all times.

3 . The outfitter and guide shall direct their best efforts towards the fulfillment of the contractual obligations and do nothing that will infringe upon the rights of the client or the cause of good sportsmanship.

4 . The outfitter and guide shall advertise in a dignified manner, setting forth a factual presentation of the services prepared to be rendered for the prospective clients, or the public, and the cost of such service.

5 . If the outfitter has the responsibility to furnish stock, equipment or boats, the equipment furnished shall be properly maintained, operated and handled. The outfitter shall maintain adequate sanitary service facilities and serve wholesome food only to be conditioned by the primitive nature of the surroundings.

6 . The outfitter and guide shall respect the rights of the other outfitters and guides and shall not, without just cause, directly or indirectly, injure the reputation of the individual or business. The outfitter and guide shall refrain from expressing publicly opinions in regard to other outfitters and guides or on allied technical subjects, unless informed as to the facts related thereto.

7 . The outfitter and guide shall guard the profession against the admission of persons unqualified because of moral character or who are of inadequate training and thus unable to perform as a professional.

8 . The outfitter and guide shall cooperate in extending training opportunities to others through an interchange of ideas and experiences and by seeking other means to assure the longevity of the profession.

9 . The outfitter and guide shall support the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish laws and will use approved methods in the care of wildlife harvests. The outfitter and guide shall protect the fields and forests from the ravages of wildfire and support the conservation of natural resources.

10 . The outfitter and guide shall practice appropriate minimum- impact camping techniques, and shall cooperate with other outfitters and guides, as well as agency personnel, to continue to develop better methods of caring for the lands and waters upon which the outfitter or guide operates.

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o all the hunters that either live in or come hunt our great state, we at the New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides want to THANK YOU for your patronage to the State of New Mexico’s economy and the NM Department of Game and Fish revenue. To all those that have never experienced the beauty of this vast western state, please accept our invitation to come and see for yourselves what diverse wildlife this state has to offer.

Outfitter and guide members want to assure you that we have your best interests at heart and strive to prove that by adhering to the high standards within our “Outfitter and Guide Code of Ethics.” We want your feedback and ask that if you ever have an issue with your New Mexico hunting or fishing experience, please let us know the good and bad so that we can better serve your interests.

I come to this job, newly elected in 2015, and knowing I have large shoes to fill. On behalf of myself and my fellow directors, I want to thank former President, Bob Atwood for his many years of dedicated, fair minded service to the Council and the hunters of New Mexico.

Our industry has many issues facing it, from the attacks by both the antihunting and anti-gun lobbies to issues facing us with the Endangered Species Act. I personally have a goal to assure you that the outfitting industry in New Mexico is your partner as we go forward to address these issues with common sense actions to further your enjoyment of all New Mexico has to offer.

To all of the outfitters and guides out there, whether in state or out of state, we ask that you join us. We need your help, like never before, to build partnerships with the organizations that see and understand the need for our industry. We also need to educate those that don’t know us to better understand what we contribute to them and this great state.

And to those who are thinking about a western hunting or fishing trip, please consider New Mexico, the “Land of Enchantment”, in your future plans. We would appreciate the opportunity to introduce you to our culture, the local folks, and you will go home knowing you have a friend in New Mexico.

Jim Welles President, New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides

Officers & Board of Directors Jim Welles, President Albuquerque, NM Rick Simpson, Vice President Glencoe, NM GT Nunn, Secretary-Treasurer Bosque, NM Bob Atwood, Past President Belen, NM Jordan Hall, Guide Director Las Cruces, NM

Ray Milligan, Director (NW) Chama, NM Tom Klumker, Director (SW) Alma, NM John Olivas, Director (NE) Holman, NM Mike Root, Director (SE) Cuchillo, NM Jack Diamond, Director (Ex-Oficio) Beaverhead, NM

If you have hunted much in Africa, Canada, or the Western United States you’ve no doubt noticed that nearly every province or state has an outfitter and guide association. Commonly referred to as O&G associations in North America, many are unaware that these groups are essential to the existence of professional hunting.

So what exactly does an O&G association do? Whether it’s the Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NPHA), Guides and Outfitters Association of British Columbia (GOABC), or the New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides (NMCOG) our missions are all the same; to protect the sport of hunting from those who seek to destroy it, to advocate the interests of the professional hunting industry, to promote responsible game management, and to support the individuals whose livelihood depends on hunting.

Most O&G associations provide a continuous presence in local government.

Many have full time lobbyists that work tirelessly to prove the importance of the industry to government officials, many of whom are unfamiliar with hunting or outdoor recreation in general. Some associations, including NMCOG, also provide government representation at the national level and work with law makers to ensure that the people’s right to hunt wild game is preserved for future generations.

Additionally, O&G associations routinely bear the brunt of industry lawsuits that would otherwise be left to the individual sportsman to fight. Right now, in the United States, nearly every O&G association is either already fighting or will likely become involved in some type of endangered species lawsuit. From wolves, to grizzlies, to sage grouse, to prairie chickens, environmental lawsuits are a dime a dozen.

In a world where almost nothing can be accomplished without the ruling of a lawsuit, it should be somewhat comforting to realize that there are currently groups out there fighting for your right to be a sportsman.

In conjunction with their legislative and litigation efforts, O&G associations also exist to promote an ethical and quality professional hunting industry. Nearly each association publishes a directory listing of their membership in order to highlight the industry operators. As a hunter looking to contract with a top quality Outfitter for your trip of a life-time, starting your search at the O&G association’s website is likely your best bet. O&G associations strive to maintain local industries of the highest ethical standards by supporting Outfitters who exemplify strong integrity, demonstrate good character ,and possess all of the required permits, licenses, and insurance to operate in that state or province. And if you notice that your outfitter’s name is not listed as a member of their local O&G association your first question to them should be, why not?

The New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides was founded in 1978 by a group of hunting outfitters who saw the need to form a formal organization to protect their industry against the growing threats of powerful special interest groups.

This remains the central objective of the association today and has grown to encompass the guided fishing industry as well. NMCOG is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization that is funded 100 percent by membership dues and donations. Funds are stretched to finance everything from legislative efforts, to litigation, to industry promotion.

For most O&G associations budgets are tight and organizations are in a continual juggling act to make a small amount of money go a very long way.

Outfitter/guide membership dues alone are never sufficient to cover the expenses incurred to advocate the interests of the industry. O&G associations rely on the support of sportsmen such as yourself to help finance the efforts of the organization. Whether you routinely contract with an Outfitter, you’re a non-resident do-it-yourself hunter, or you’re a resident hunter, please consider supporting the O&G association in the area where you hunt.

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hile it seems unthinkable to those of us from, or familiar with, the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico is often partnered with the subconscious image of a hot, dry, and flat desert wasteland. And while the state does offer areas of breath taking rose-colored deserts, New Mexico is actually the 4th most mountainous state in the Nation, with a mean elevation of 5,700 feet. Landscapes range from high snow capped peaks to low windswept grasslands and encompasses nearly everything in-between.

Victims of the New Mexico stereotype are also often surprised to learn that the state is plentiful with wild game and fishing. New Mexico has been successful in establishing itself as a significant and well respected location to hunt large, trophy quality elk, and that’s not the only once in a life time opportunity to be had. From an assortment of native big game, to free ranging exotic game, to predator hunting with hounds, to world class fly fishing; New Mexico should definitely be on your sportsman bucket list.

New Mexico are famed for their heavy horned big bucks. Good numbers of mule deer can also be found in the Gila and Cibola national forests.

Booking a private land hunt with an outfitter is your best bet for bagging a trophy.

Tracking or spot-stalking are the preferred methods for hunting mule deer in NM. It helps to be in fair-good physical condition as steep climbs and unpredictable terrain are common. Mule deer are not as flighty as whitetails and even bow hunters have a good chance to sneak within range of a bedded muley.

In addition to mule deer, New Mexico has substantial populations of whitetail deer in the northeastern corner of the state and the southwest corner is home to the illusive “gray ghost” or Coues deer. Coues deer are a subspecies of whitetail deer.

One of the smallest deer in America, they stand about 30 inches tall at the shoulder and rarely exceed 100 pounds. Coues deer are one of the most difficult species of deer to harvest and would be a prized addition to any trophy room.

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heavily forested alpine wilderness actually covers a large portion of the state. These forests are home to more than 70,000 Rocky Mountain elk. Few western states come close to matching New Mexico in size, number, and quality of elk hunts.

Bull elk are undoubtedly the state’s most coveted big game trophy.

Early-season elk hunts take place during the rut and the action can be as good, if not better, than any other time during the year. The best method to harvest a bull during this time of year is to draw the animal toward you with a bugle or cow call.

Winter comes early in the high country of New Mexico so hunters need to remember to prepare for varying weather conditions. Late-season hunts can be very cold and snow laden while early-season hunts can be cold at night and very warm during the day. Conditions can quickly change from warm and sunny to cold and cloudy with rain or snow.

Hunters should prepare for conditions to change rapidly. Good boots and warm, layered clothing are essential.

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tion of elk herds in New Mexico you can find great hunts that are suited to nearly any physical ability.

Whether your dream hunt involves minimal hiking and the comforts of a warm hunting lodge or an extended backcountry hunt spending several days horseback at a remote mountain camp, New Mexico can provide what you are looking for.

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rams can weigh over 300 pounds and stand 42 inches at the shoulder.

Desert Bighorn sheep, native to the southwestern United States, can also be found in New Mexico and are a rare and prized opportunity for any sheep hunter. Slightly smaller in body size and horn girth than their rocky mountain cousins, these animals also have extremely acute eyesight and can watch an animal, or hunter, from up to a mile away.

Sheep hunting is all about glassing and the best guides carry spotting scopes and binoculars of the finest quality. An experienced sheep guide will be able to judge the size of a ram through a spotting scope to ensure that you get the ram you really want.

Most sheep outfitting is done with packhorses and tent frame camps. Any seasoned sheep hunter knows there will be long days in the saddle and that the climb into the high country, often above 12,000 ft in elevation, will be tough on the legs and feet. It is essential to get your body in shape, especially if you are unaccustomed to being at high elevations, and toughening up your mind can be equally as important.

Vigilance is king in the backcountry.

Remember to pack emergency gear and you can never have enough layered clothing. Drinking plenty of water is the key to fighting off altitude sickness and

a good mountain rifle is also essential. However, probably more important are the many hours spent fine-tuning your shooting skills and learning the trajectory of your firearm in preparation of the hunt.

PRONGHORN Pronghorn, commonly referred to as antelope, are unique to North America and are plentiful along the windswept prairies of New Mexico. On a good day you may spot as many as 100 at a time.

Getting close enough to get a good shot is the real trick. Pronghorn are the second fasted land animal on earth. Second only to the cheetah, pronghorn can run up to 55 mph and can maintain speeds of 35 mph for several miles. Hunting requires patience and stealth. Get ready to crawl, pronghorn can detect movement from up to four miles away.

Active both day and night, pronghorn prefer open terrain and depend on their keen eyesight and lightning speed for defense. Because the pronghorn is not a large target, it is important to make an accurate shot. The preferred rifle for hunting antelope is a .243 or .270 with a 100-150 grain bullet.

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the pronghorn is truly a unique species and a formidable challenge of your stalking and shooting skills. The animal’s branched horns and prominent eyes make it an impressive trophy mount.

JAVELINA Javelinas are the only pig-like animals native to North America. They are found in southern New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Javelinas have poor eyesight but exceptional hearing. They usually travel in bands of six to ten and prefer to stick to brushy canyon bottoms and grassland. They can be found around prickly pear cactus and permanent water sources. In the heat of the day they can be found along the cooler slopes of the canyon. Javelinas are very aggressive and the whole band can charge if provoked. They have short straight canine tusks which they use as their primary defense against predators.

Pound for pound there is probably no more exciting desert animal to hunt in North America.

Javelina season in New Mexico is limited to the first three months of the year and is available through lottery draw only. An experience spiced with challenge and an ever present risk of being charged by sixty pounds of muscle tipped with sharp tusks will no doubt keep you on your toes.

BLACK BEAR The term black bear can be misleading. New

Mexico’s black bear population also consists of chocolate brown, tan, and cinnamon colored bears. Medium in size among the bears of North America, black bears average 135 pounds although a 400 pound bruin is not unheard of. Black bears are agile climbers with an acute sense of smell and excellent hearing.

Black bears are found in all forested areas of New Mexico and they tend to feed on herbaceous growth in dense hidden areas. An adult male, on average, occupies an area of 25 square miles but can extend their territories to as much as 50 miles in search of food. In New Mexico black bear hunts are offered in the fall. They are typically hunted with hounds until the animal is treed. However, many hunters have also successfully bagged a trophy bear by waiting patiently in a blind near a known feeding or water source.

COUGAR Known by many names, the American cougar, or mountain lion, is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. Found only in the western hemisphere of the Americas, these big cats can be found in all mountainous areas of New Mexico.

Veteran hounds-men will tell you that a cougar hunt seldom unfolds in a way the uninitiated might expect. A cougar hunt often begins with the search for a fresh track. Recent snowfall can be a huge help with this task but is not a requirement for seasoned Outfitters. Once a suitable track is found the dogs are released and the fun begins. Cougars are sleek and elusive so hunting them is often unpredictable. Cats are well known to throw dogs off track and give them the slip or, sometimes, to turn around and fight.

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free ranging species of African Oryx and Aoudad (known locally as Barbary Sheep) as well Persian Ibex from the mountains of Siberia and Iran.

Oryx, also known as Gemsbok, are large antelope from Africa’s Kalahari Desert. They were introduced to New Mexico in the 1960s and a sizable population of about 2,500 animals inhabits the brushy deserts of the White Sands Missile Range and Tularosa Basin.

Adult male Oryx weigh from 400 to 500 pounds and stand approximately 47 inches at the shoulder. Their v-shaped, slender, black horns usually measure 30-40 inches in length. Their distinct black and white faces make them an impressive mount for any trophy room and their meat is arguably the best of any wild game.

Oryx roam the canyons, foothills, and lowlands of the missile range. They typically travel in bands of up to 50 animals and are prolific breeders. An Oryx hunt is not usually physically demanding and hunter success rates are very high on the missile range.

Persian Ibex were also released into New Mexico in the 1960s. Today a herd of approximately 700 head roam the Florida Mountains just outside of Deming, NM. Ibex are short-legged, agile creatures that are extremely elusive and difficult to hunt.

Ibex live in rocky, rugged country usually on high cliffs. They can jump several feet, walk along sheer cliffs, and spot movement from a half-mile away. Spot-and-stalk is the preferred hunting method. Once you spot your Ibex it’s usually a slow, stealthy, uphill approach to get close enough for a shot. Ibex can easily bluff and out maneuver you so it is very helpful to have an experienced guide assist you during your hunt.

As with Oryx, Barbary sheep were introduced from to New Mexico from Africa in the 1960s.

Today they are found in small scattered herds along the rough, mountainous terrain of the high desert of southern New Mexico. Similar to Ibex, Barbary sheep are hunted using the spot-and-stalk technique. Be ready to cover some ground because as far as Barbary sheep are concerned, the rougher the terrain the better.

Barbary Sheep are coveted for their prominent horns which can measure up to 30 inches and curve upward and then back down. A Barbary sheep make an impressive body mount because of their flowing mane, beard, and the unique chaps along their front legs.

New Mexico boasts an abundant population of wild turkeys with the Merriams subspecies found mostly in the northern part of the state and the Rio Grande subspecies in the south and east. The state has both spring and fall turkey seasons with excellent hunts on private and public lands.

New Mexico’s wild turkeys are generally found in mountainous areas in scrub oak and ponderosa pine forests. The gregarious, vocal nature of the taller Rio Grande turkey makes it an especially exciting bird to hunt during the spring mating season. The Merriams are known for its impressive plumage with white-tipped tail feathers and black body which reflects blue, purple, and bronze hues.

Three species of dove as well as band-tailed pigeons may be hunted in New Mexico. Starting each year on the first of September, both Mourning dove and its larger cousin, the White Wing dove, are plentiful throughout the state. These birds are fast flying and offer even the most experienced wing shooter a range of challenges. Both can be found in the early morning and late afternoon, around water holes, and in recently harvested fields.

The high country of New Mexico holds Blue or Spruce grouse. Grouse season is early fall and provides both an exciting break for elk hunters as well as an excuse for any hunter to enjoy the colors and crisp air of fall in the pine forests. Called “fool hens” by early settlers because of their habit of

feeding in the open and flushing late, once these birds have been flushed and are flying they are every bit as hard to hit as their eastern cousins.

Four species of quail are native to New Mexico. Scaled or Blue quail are the most common species. Gambels quail are easy to recognize with their distinctive black top knot. Bobwhite quail can be found in the far eastern portion of the state and Montezuma in the southwestern mountains. With or without dogs, quail offer the upland hunter every opportunity to either be outwitted or out-run by their quarry. Quail season lasts from mid November into February. If you plan to hunt a Scaled quail better bring your track shoes.

“Scalies” in particular do not hold for Pointers and would rather run than fly.

Pheasant hunting has an extremely short season in New Mexico, normally just three days in December. The most successful pheasant hunting is done either in the Rio Grande Valley or in the grain fields of eastern New Mexico.

Sandhill crane can be hunted in eastern and central portions of New Mexico.

They can normally be found in harvested grain fields and near water sources. Seasons

vary by region but most hunting is available from October to January.

Duck hunting opportunities run from September into January. Teal season opens in September with the other species coming later. Duck species include Scaup, common Moorhen, Virginia rail, Sora, Snipe, Canvasback, Pintail, and American coot. Hunting with decoys is common practice in the Bosque areas along central New Mexico’s lakes and rivers.

Species of geese found in New Mexico include Canadian and White-fronted geese as well as Snow, Blue-phase snow, and Ross’s geese. Seasons generally run from October to as late as mid■ March for light geese.

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Four Seasons of Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico

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rainbow, brown and brook trout along with Rio Grande cutthroats. There is also the possibility of catching cuttbow trout (a rainbow/cutthroat hybrid), pike and/or small mouth bass. In most of the area’s waters an angler will be able to catch more than one type of trout during a typical fishing day. In many fishing spots, if an angler is lucky, there is the chance of catching three or possibly all four of the main species of trout that live in Northern New Mexico.

Northern New Mexico has good fishing throughout the whole year primarily due to its diversity in landscape and altitude. Below is a synopsis of where the best fishing locations typically are and what kind of fishing one can expect during the different seasons. The time frames listed are somewhat generalized and can extend or overlap due to localized weather and water conditions.

SPRING (March, April & May) The fish start to get more active as winter turns into spring and the days get longer and the air and water temperatures begin to warm up. Many aquatic insects, that are the prime food source for most trout, start to move about after being dormant throughout the winter. This causes the fish to feed more than they have during the past few months.

The fish will tend to start moving out of the deeper holes where they have spent the winter into the shallower, warmer areas of the rivers and lakes. Iceout (when the ice melts) is one of the best times of year for fishing on Northern New Mexico’s lakes and ponds as most of them have not been fished on throughout the winter. The warmer weather and

good fishing conditions in the springtime are typically governed by degree of altitude, with the lower areas warming up first. This means that the streams and rivers at lower altitudes will be fishing well while those that are higher up may still be covered with snow. As the snow starts to melt in the mountains, many rivers and streams can have very high Summer - Alpine Meadow Fly Fishing water conditions due to run-off. Often the run-off will be occurring in is still cool and the fish are hungry and strong. Midindividual spots in specific drainages so there is June is when the large stoneflies start to hatch in usually always somewhere to go fishing where the many areas giving anglers some great top-water water levels aren’t too high. This is a great time of action with large dry flies. Larger trout often smash year to target the tailwater stretches of the Chama these bigger bugs with abandon; this is quite a thrill! and the San Juan Rivers where the water flows are As June moves into July the high alpine meadow regulated by the releases from the dams. Springtime areas start to fish really well. The grasshoppers are is also when rainbow trout spawn which causes everywhere and they become one of the prime food them to become quite aggressive and makes the sources for hungry trout. Dry fly action with larger fish easier to catch. grasshopper patterns can be phenomenal in most locations. Northern New Mexico has some of the SUMMER (June, July & August) most beautiful and remote mountain streams and Typically the run-off conditions have subsided rivers in the western United States with mid to late by the beginning of June and the fishing is excellent summer being the best time of year to target them. throughout the region in all types of water and loca- At the higher altitudes up in the mountains, the air tions. The water temperature in the rivers and lakes and water temperatures are pleasant so one doesn’t usually need to wear wading gear. Fishing these areas during this time of year is a great way to beat the summer heat. With so many headwaters, smaller streams and lakes that are off the beaten path, anglers can almost always find a spot to be alone, out in some gorgeous country. In August all manner of rigs will be working which gives anglers the opportunity to try their luck with both sub-surface and top-water fishing techniques.

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The fall is possibly the best season to fish in Northern New Mexico. The weather is perfect and the fish really start to try and pack on calories for the winter which means they tend to bite really well. As the first frosts start to show up in the high country, the fishing gets better in the larger sections of the streams and rivers at slightly lower elevations. The fishing in the area’s lakes turns on again as the water temperatures start to drop. Lake fish that typically are down deep during the heat of the summer begin to come up again and cruise the edges looking for food. In September dry flies still work well but, as the air starts to cool off even more into October, nymphs and streamers take over as the most productive fly patterns. The fall is when the large brown trout start to think about spawning. These bigger fish are very hard to catch

until this time of year when they become very “fired up” and easier to hook. The males often get the classic hooked jaw known as a kipe and exhibit bright spawning colors. This is also the prime time to fish the lakes, rivers and streams in the Chama area where good fishing typically lasts into early December. Along with the great fishing, the landscape is incredible with the aspen’s and cottonwood’s leaves turning bright gold and yellow.

Most people associate the fall in Northern New Mexico with elk and deer hunting; they should add epic fly fishing to the list.

Grande and cuttbows on the Red River. During the winter the fish don’t say they are done for the year – just a lot of the fishermen do.

Many of the best fishing locations in Northern New Mexico are somewhat hard to find and require area specific fishing techniques to do well. If you are interested in fishing in this part of the state, consider hiring a fly fishing guide for at least a day or two to get you started. Many of the guides, outfit-

ters and lodges in Northern New Mexico also offer “cast and blast” hunting and fishing packages. In the fall, elk and deer hunters may want to consider a day or two of fly fishing as part of their hunting trip, especially if they tag out early.

For more information about fly fishing in Northern New Mexico please contact: Noah Parker, Land of Enchantment Guides, www.loeflyfishing.com, trout@loeflyfishing.com, 505-629-5688.

WINTER (December, January & February) Fall fishing can continue to be good into early December, depending on how cold it gets. If the temperatures drop significantly the fishing will slow down in many locations. This is not to say the fishing is finished until the spring – far from it.

Certain rivers such as the San Juan, the lower Chama, the Red and the Rio Grande offer great fishing throughout the winter. The only caveat is the weather. Northern New Mexico can be very cold but, when the sun is out and there isn’t much wind, the conditions can be quite pleasant. If one dresses well and prepares for the elements, a great day of fishing can be had anytime throughout the winter months. Probably the biggest benefit to fishing in the winter is that, in popular locations such as the San Juan River, anglers can often have the water to themselves. The winter is also the very best time of the year to target large pike on the Rio

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Gavilan Creek Outfitters, LLC Foster Butt 437 E Old Hickory Blvd Madison, TN 37115 (615) 865-9323 www.gavilancreekoutfitters.com

Karl Brosig Hunting Karl Brosig 2413 E. Hwy 80 Midland, TX 79706 (432) 683-6259

Graham’s Guide Service, LLC Joseph Graham 266 Eagle Creek Canyon Rd. Ruidoso, NM 88345 (575) 937-2099 www.grahamsguideservices.com H&A Outfitters, Inc. Andrew Salgado PO Box 16461 Santa Fe, NM 87592 (505) 474-6959 www.nmbiggamehunting.com

Kauffman Outfitters Dennis Kauffman PO Box 187 Mountain Park, NM 88325 (575) 430-4239 www.kauffmanoutfitters.com Kennedy Hunting Services, Inc. Kirk Kennedy 41 Outfitters Rd. Des Moines, NM 88418 (575) 278-2185 www.kennedyhuntingservices.com

Harrington Ranch Outfitters Joe Miller PO Box 532 Mimbres, NM 88049 (575) 536-3313

Knight Guiding/Outfitting LLC Daric Knight PO Box 212 Springerville, AZ 85938 (928) 521-9897 www.knightguiding.com

Harry Wood Guide & Outfitter Harry Wood 5244 CR 149 Centerville, TX 75833 (903) 536-7130 www.harrywoodguides.com

Largo Canyon Outfitters Mark Mcknight 300 Heiland Rd Aztec, NM 87410 (505) 330-1639 www.largocanyonoutfitters.com

Haystack Mountain Outfitters R.A. “Pancho” Maples 3306 Woodbine Way Roswell, NM 88203 (575) 626-3386

Limestone Outfitters Darell Welty PO Box 75 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 772-5768

Lobo Outfitters Dick Ray 4821A Hwy 84 Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 (970) 264-5546 www.lobooutfitters.com Lodge and Ranch at Chama Land & Cattle Co. Frank Simms PO Box 127 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 756-2133 www.lodgeatchama.com Mangas Outfitters Tuffy Barnett PO Box 354 Datil, NM 87821 (575) 838-6202 www.mangasoutfitters.com Michael Root’s Guide Service Mike Root HC 30 Box 35 Cuchillo, NM 87901 (575) 743-2026 Milligan Brand Outfitting, Inc Ray Milligan HC 75 Box 87 Chama, NM 87520 (505) 470-1944 www.milliganbrand.com Morris Mosimann Hunting Services Morris Mosimann HCR 62-Box 81 Raton, NM 87740 (575) 445-3255 Mountain States Guide Service Rob Degner PO Box 6310 Navajo Dam, NM 87419 (505) 320-2602 www.mountainstates guideservice.com New Mexico Elk Hunting Jack McCormick 88 Brannen Rd. Tijeras, NM 87059 (505) 321-8202 www.elkoutfitter.com New Mexico Hunting Adventures Vincent Vigil 10201 Ventana Hills Rd. Albuquerque, NM 87114 (505) 363-1638 www.nmhuntingadventures.com

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One on One Adventures Bill Lewellen PO Box 215 Jarales, NM 87023 (575) 642-8090 www.oneononeadventures.com Premier Hunts of New Mexico Art Orthman PO Box 402 Eagle Nest, NM 87718 (575) 377-3556 www.premierhunts-nm.com Rancho Rojo Outfitters Mark Harper PO Box 155 Coyote, NM 87012 (575) 638-5004 www.harperhunts.com RB Outfitter and Guide Services Ron Schalla PO Box 57 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 756-1409 www.rboutfittershunt.com Redwing Outfitters Bob Daugherty HC 30 Box 165 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 743-0448 www.redwinghunts.com

(716) 992-2406 www.rtohunts.com

(575) 937-3572 www.topnotchoutfitters.com

Rugged Cross Outfitters David Welty PO Box 117 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 743-0251 Email: dawelty@msn.com

Trophy Hunting Adventures Dave Garrett 1522 S. Oak St. Trinidad, CO 81082 (719) 680-2527 www.trophyhuntingadventures.com

San Francisco River Outfitters Tom Klumker HC 61 Box 179-C Glenwood, NM 88039 (575) 539-2517 www.huntinginnewmexico.com

Trophy Ridge Outfitters Audrey McQueen 725 S. Genevieve Eager, AZ 85925 (505) 350-6487 www.trophyridgeoutfitters.net

Santa Fe Guiding Company Bob King 75 Sibley Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 (505) 466-7964 www.santafeguidingco.com

United States Outfitters, Inc. George Taulman 325 Santistevan Lane Taos, NM 87571 (800) 845-9929 www.huntuso.com

S.O. Hunts Shannon Owen 777 Giles Ln Socorro, NM 87801 (575) 418-8143 www.nmhunts.com

WASA Outfitters Wade Wood 42 Caballo Ln Clayton, NM 88415 (575) 207-8205 www.wasaoutfitters.com

Southwest NM Trophy Outfitters LLC Nettie Carrejo PO Box 373 Quemado, NM 87829 (575) 773-4729

West Tex-New Mex Hunting Jess Rankin PO Box 2305 Roswell, NM 88202 (575) 622-6600 www.new-mexico-hunts.com

S-S Outfitters Rick Simpson HC 66 Box 70 Glencoe, NM 88324 (575) 653-4249 www.s-soutfitters.com

Ridgeline Outfitters LLC Dan Reyes 1239 Sunflower Ave. Belen, NM 87002 (505) 866-1074 www.ridgelineoutfitters.com

STC Outfitting Stephen Connor PO Box 396 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 (575) 687-4006 www.stcoutfitting.com

Rio Brazos Outfitters, Inc Frank Simms 7 Paintbrush Ct Santa Fe, NM 87506 (575) 756-2133 www.riobrazosoutfitters.com Rocky Mountain Big Game Hunts Jan Brown PO Box 356 Regina, NM 87046 (575) 289-3394

The Timbers at Chama Bill Glisson HC 75 Box 136 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 588-7950 www.thetimbersatchama.com

Ross Johnson Outfitters Susan Johnson PO Box 330 Datil, NM 87821 (575) 772-5997 www.rossjohnsonoutfitters.com

Tomahawk Outfitters James Kneip RR 1 Box 33 Springer, NM 87747 (575) 483-5963 www.tomahawkoutfitters.com

Royal Trophy Outfitters Andre Galenda 1689 Sturgeon Point Rd Derby, NY 14047

Top Notch Outfitters Brian Newell PO Box 1353 Capitan, NM 88316

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PO Box 707 High Rolls Mtn Pk., NM 88325 (575) 682-2530 www.circlesevenguidedhunts.com Compass West Outfitters Chris Guikema 33 Road 25531 Aztec, NM 87401 (505) 801-7500 www.200inches.com Extreme Hunting Adventures Matt Gilstrap HC 30 Box 469 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 772-5927 www.newmexico1outfitter.com Frontier Outfitting & Guide Service G.T. Nunn PO Box 35 Bosque, NM 87006 (505) 350-9775 www.frontieroutfitting.com Graham’s Guide Service, LLC Joseph Graham 266 Eagle Creek Canyon Rd. Ruidoso, NM 88345 (575) 937-2099 www.grahamsguideservices.com H&A Outfitters, Inc. Andrew Salgado PO Box 16461 Santa Fe, NM 87592 (505) 474-6959 www.nmbiggamehunting.com

Backcountry Hunts Steve Jones 1029 Haston Rd Carlsbad, NM 88220 (575) 361-1053 www.backcountryhunts.com

Harrington Ranch Outfitters Joe Miller PO Box 532 Mimbres, NM 88049 (575) 536-3313

Beaverhead Outfitters Jack Diamond HC 30 Box 446 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 772-5795 www.beaverheadoutfitters.com

Harry Wood Guide & Outfitter Harry Wood 5244 CR 149 Centerville, TX 75833 (903) 536-7130 www.harrywoodguides.com

Black Mountain Outfitters, Inc Tom McReynolds 28150 N. Alma Suite 103 #442 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 705-4297 www.bmohunts.com

Haystack Mountain Outfitters R.A. “Pancho” Maples 3306 Woodbine Way Roswell, NM 88203 (575) 626-3386

Blue Mountain Outfitters Bob Atwood PO Box 697 Belen, NM 87002 (505) 864-6867 www.bluemountainoutfitters.com Circle Seven Guided Hunts Rick Rogers

JACO Outfitters, LLC John Olivas HCR 34 Box 65 Holman, NM 87723 (505) 379-5551 www.jacooutfitters.com JFW Ranch Consulting, LLC Jim Welles 10600 Eagle Rock NE

Albuquerque, NM 87122 (505) 294-7861 www.newmexicobiggamehunting.com

Premier Hunts of New Mexico Art Orthman PO Box 402 Eagle Nest, NM 87718 (575) 377-3556 www.premierhunts-nm.com

Kauffman Outfitters Dennis Kauffman PO Box 187 Mountain Park, NM 88325 (575) 430-4239 www.kauffmanoutfitters.com

Rancho Rojo Outfitters Mark Harper PO Box 155 Coyote, NM 87012 (575) 638-5004 www.harperhunts.com

Mangas Outfitters Tuffy Barnett PO Box 354 Datil, NM 87821 (575) 838-6202 www.mangasoutfitters.com

Redwing Outfitters Bob Daugherty HC 30 Box 165 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 743-0448 www.redwinghunts.com

New Mexico Elk Hunting Jack McCormick 88 Brannen Rd. Tijeras, NM 87059 (505) 321-8202 www.elkoutfitter.com

Ridgeline Outfitters, LLC Dan Reyes 1239 Sunflower Ave. Belen, NM 87002 (505) 866-1074 www.ridgelineoutfitters.com

New Mexico Hunting Adventures Vincent Vigil 10201 Ventana Hills Rd. Albuquerque, NM 87114 (505) 363-1638 www.nmhuntingadventures.com

Rio Brazos Outfitters, Inc Frank Simms 7 Paintbrush Ct Santa Fe, NM 87506 (575) 756-2133 www.riobrazosoutfitters.com

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Rocky Mountain Big Game Hunts Jan Brown PO Box 356 Regina, NM 87046 (575) 289-3394 Ross Johnson Outfitters Susan Johnson PO Box 330 Datil, NM 87821 (575) 772-5997 www.rossjohnsonoutfitters.com San Francisco River Outfitters Tom Klumker HC 61 Box 179-C Glenwood, NM 88039 (575) 539-2517 www.huntinginnewmexico.com Santa Fe Guiding Company Bob King 75 Sibley Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 (505) 466-7964 www.santafeguidingco.com S.O. Hunts Shannon Owen 777 Giles Ln Socorro, NM 87801 (575) 418-8143 www.nmhunts.com

S-S Outfitters Rick Simpson HC 66 Box 70 Glencoe, NM 88324 (575) 653-4249 www.s-soutfitters.com STC Outfitting Stephen Connor PO Box 396 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 (575) 687-4006 www.stcoutfitting.com Top Notch Outfitters Brian Newell PO Box 1353 Capitan, NM 88316 (575) 937-3572 www.topnotchoutfitters.com Trophy Ridge Outfitters Audrey McQueen 725 S. Genevieve Eager, AZ 85925 (505) 350-6487 www.trophyridgeoutfitters.net

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United States Outfitters, Inc. George Taulman 325 Santistevan Lane Taos, NM 87571 (800) 845-9929 www.huntuso.com WASA Outfitters Wade Wood 42 Caballo Ln Clayton, NM 88415 (575) 207-8205 www.wasaoutfitters.com

PREDATOR HUNTING OUTFITTERS Backcountry Hunts Steve Jones 1029 Haston Rd Carlsbad, NM 88220 (575) 361-1053 www.backcountryhunts.com

Blue Mountain Outfitters Bob Atwood PO Box 697 Belen, NM 87002 (505) 864-6867 www.bluemountainoutfitters.com

G3 Outfitters Jay Platt PO Box 513 Reserve, NM 8783 (575) 772-5925 www.g3outfitters.com

New Mexico Elk Hunting Jack McCormick 88 Brannen Rd. Tijeras, NM 87059 (505) 321-8202 www.elkoutfitter.com

Circle Seven Guided Hunts Rick Rogers PO Box 707 High Rolls Mtn Pk., NM 88325 (575) 682-2530 www.circlesevenguidedhunts.com

H&A Outfitters, Inc. Andrew Salgado PO Box 16461 Santa Fe, NM 87592 (505) 474-6959 www.nmbiggamehunting.com

One on One Adventures Bill Lewellen PO Box 215 Jarales, NM 87023 (575) 642-8090 www.oneononeadventures.com

Compass West Outfitters Chris Guikema 33 Road 25531 Aztec, NM 87401 (505) 801-7500 www.200inches.com

Harrington Ranch Outfitters Joe Miller PO Box 532 Mimbres, NM 88049 (575) 536-3313

Premier Hunts of New Mexico Art Orthman PO Box 402 Eagle Nest, NM 87718 (575) 377-3556 www.premierhunts-nm.com

Extreme Hunting Adventures Matt Gilstrap HC 30 Box 469 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 772-5927 www.newmexico1outfitter.com

Black Mountain Outfitters, Inc Tom McReynolds 28150 N. Alma Suite 103 #442 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 705-4297 www.bmohunts.com

Folsom Outfitters Kyle Bell PO Box 394 Folsom, NM 88419 (575) 278-2444 www.folsomoutfitters.com

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James Guide Service Marvin James PO Box 2312 Flagstaff, AZ 86003 (928) 526-6212 www.jamesguideservice.com

Rocky Mountain Big Game Hunts Jan Brown PO Box 356 Regina, NM 87046 (575) 289-3394

Kennedy Hunting Services, Inc. Kirk Kennedy 41 Outfitters Rd. Des Moines, NM 88418 (575) 278-2185 www.kennedyhuntingservices.com

Ross Johnson Outfitters Susan Johnson PO Box 330 Datil, NM 87821 (575) 772-5997 www.rossjohnsonoutfitters.com

Largo Canyon Outfitters Mark McNight 300 Heiland Rd Aztec, NM 87410 (505) 330-1639 www.largocanyonoutfitters.com

Royal Trophy Outfitters Andre Galenda 1689 Sturgeon Point Rd Derby, NY 14047 (716) 992-2406 www.rtohunts.com

Lobo Outfitters Dick Ray 4821A Hwy 84 Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 (970) 264-5546 www.lobooutfitters.com

Rugged Cross Outfitters David Welty PO Box 117 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 743-0251

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RB Outfitter and Guide Services Ron Schalla PO Box 57 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 756-1409 www.rboutfittershunt.com

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S-S Outfitters Rick Simpson HC 66 Box 70 Glencoe, NM 88324 (575) 653-4249 www.s-soutfitters.com STC Outfitting Stephen Connor PO Box 396 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 (575) 687-4006 www.stcoutfitting.com Tomahawk Outfitters James Kneip RR 1 Box 33 Springer, NM 87747 (575) 483-5963 www.tomahawkoutfitters.com Trophy Hunting Adventures Dave Garrett 1522 S. Oak St. Trinidad, CO 81082 (719) 680-2527 www.trophyhuntingadventures.com

WASA Outfitters Wade Wood 42 Caballo Ln Clayton, NM 88415 (575) 207-8205 www.wasaoutfitters.com

BIRD HUNTING OUTFITTERS Backcountry Hunts Steve Jones 1029 Haston Rd Carlsbad, NM 88220 (575) 361-1053 www.backcountryhunts.com Blue Mountain Outfitters Bob Atwood PO Box 697 Belen, NM 87002 (505) 864-6867 www.bluemountainoutfitters.com Extreme Hunting Adventures Matt Gilstrap HC 30 Box 469 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 772-5927 www.newmexico1outfitter.com

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Folsom Outfitters Kyle Bell PO Box 394 Folsom, NM 88419 (575) 278-2444 www.folsomoutfitters.com

Kennedy Hunting Services, Inc. Kirk Kennedy 41 Outfitters Rd. Des Moines, NM 88418 (575) 278-2185 www.kennedyhuntingservices.com

G3 Outfitters Jay Platt PO Box 513 Reserve, NM 8783 (575) 772-5925 www.g3outfitters.com

New Mexico Elk Hunting Jack McCormick 88 Brannen Rd. Tijeras, NM 87059 (505) 321-8202 www.elkoutfitter.com

Harrington Ranch Outfitters Joe Miller PO Box 532 Mimbres, NM 88049 (575) 536-3313

RB Outfitter and Guide Services Ron Schalla PO Box 57 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 756-1409 www.rboutfittershunt.com

Haystack Mountain Outfitters R.A. “Pancho” Maples 3306 Woodbine Way Roswell, NM 88203 (575) 626-3386 JACO Outfitters, LLC John Olivas HCR 34 Box 65 Holman, NM 87723 (505) 379-5551 www.jacooutfitters.com

Redwing Outfitters Bob Daugherty HC 30 Box 165 Winston, NM 87943 (575) 743-0448 www.redwinghunts.com Rio Brazos Outfitters, Inc Frank Simms 7 Paintbrush Ct continued on page 56

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Tomahawk Outfitters James Kneip RR 1 Box 33 Springer, NM 87747 (575) 483-5963 www.tomahawkoutfitters.com

Santa Fe Guiding Company Bob King 75 Sibley Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 (505) 466-7964 www.santafeguidingco.com

Top Notch Outfitters Brian Newell PO Box 1353 Capitan, NM 88316 (575) 937-3572 www.topnotchoutfitters.com

S-S Outfitters Rick Simpson HC 66 Box 70 Glencoe, NM 88324 (575) 653-4249 www.s-soutfitters.com

WASA Outfitters Wade Wood 42 Caballo Ln Clayton, NM 88415 (575) 207-8205 www.wasaoutfitters.com

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STC Outfitting Stephen Connor PO Box 396 NM 88317 Cloudcroft, (575) 687-4006 www.stcoutfitting.com The Timbers at Chama Bill Glisson HC 75 Box 136 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 588-7950 www.thetimbersatchama.com

FISHING OUTFITTERS Circle S. Stables Kraig Storey PO Box 371 Springer, NM 87747 (575) 520-5775 www.circlesridingstable.com Compass West Outfitters Chris Guikema 33 Road 25531 Aztec, NM 87401

(505) 801-7500 www.200inches.com Land of Enchantment Guides Noah Parker PO Box 55 Velarde, NM 87582 (505) 629-5688 www.loeflyfishing.com Lodge & Ranch at Chama Land & Cattle Co. Frank Simms PO Box 127 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 756-2133 www.lodgeatchama.com

PO Box 57, Chama, NM 87520 (575) 756-1409 www.rboutfittershunt.com Rocky Mountain Big Game Hunts Jan Brown PO Box 356 Regina, NM 87046 (575) 289-3394 San Francisco River Outfitters Tom Klumker HC 61 Box 179-C Glenwood, NM 88039 (575) 539-2517 www.huntinginnewmexico.com

Milligan Brand Outfitting, Inc Ray Milligan HC 75 Box 87 Chama, NM 87520 (505) 470-1944 www.milliganbrand.com

Santa Fe Guiding Company Bob King 75 Sibley Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 (505) 466-7964 www.santafeguidingco.com

Mountain States Guide Service Rob Degner PO Box 6310 Navajo Dam, NM 87419 (505) 320-2602 www.mountainstatesguideservice.com

Soaring Eagle Lodge Larry Johnson PO Box 6340 Navajo Dam, NM 87419 (505) 632-3721 www.soaringeaglelodge.net

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Albuquerque, NM 87114 (505) 363-1638 www.nmhuntingadventures.com RB Outfitter and Guide Services Ron Schalla PO Box 57 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 756-1409 www.rboutfittershunt.com San Francisco River Outfitters Tom Klumker HC 61 Box 179-C Glenwood, NM 88039 (575) 539-2517 www.huntinginnewmexico.com Santa Fe Guiding Company Bob King 75 Sibley Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 (505) 466-7964 www.santafeguidingco.com

STC Outfitting Stephen Connor PO Box 396 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 (575) 687-4006 www.stcoutfitting.com The Timbers at Chama Bill Glisson HC 75 Box 136 Chama, NM 87520 (575) 588-7950 www.thetimbersatchama.com WASA Outfitters Wade Wood 42 Caballo Ln Clayton, NM 88415 (575) 207-8205 www.wasaoutfitters.com

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George Curtis,INC. REGISTERED ANGUS CATTLE

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eorge and Vera Curtis came to New Mexico as small children in the early 1900s. Their parents, arriving in a covered wagon, homesteaded in rural Quay County, New Mexico, on the Llano Estacado. Forrest, New Mexico, was the nearest place of commerce, a community built around a rural schoolhouse where their children of the 1920s and 1930s era received their education. George heard of the Aberdeen Angus breed, and much improved genetics that the breed was known for, and made the decision to acquire a registered Angus herd of his own. Traveling across the U.S. in search of the best genetics that money could buy turned out to be quite an adventure for Mr. Curtis but also a memorable quest for the Curtis children of the era. George Curtis and his youngest son James V. Curtis accepted the challenge of competing with the other top Angus breeders of the 40s and 50s at numerous State and regional competitions including the Denver and Ft. Worth livestock shows. When James V. Curtis (Rip) returned from his world travels, sponsored by the U. S. Air Force, with his wife, a North Carolina native and Air Force registered nurse, Thelma, the Curtis team resumed their Angus breeding venture. As cutting edge technology became available in the form of artificial insemination and embryo transplant, the Curtis family began to utilize these new tools to improve the herd focusing on the genetic traits that most needed improvement both in the industry and on the Curtis ranch. George Curtis’ passing in 1977 and his son’s passing in 1994 left the responsibility of sire selection and herd genetics to the present generation of Curtises.

Tamara, Blake and Tye Curtis still operate George Curtis, Inc. today. The Curtis family takes pride in completing three generations in the Registered Angus cattle business. Our pledge is to continue to meet our customers’ expectations of excellence. The easy calving, top gaining, moderate framed stock that the Curtis family has been known for in the past is still available today at George Curtis Inc.

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ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION SALES, INC. & ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION TRUCKING, INC. 900 North Garden · P.O. Box 2041 Roswell, New Mexico 88201 575/622-5580 www.roswelllivestockauction.com CATTLE SALES: MONDAYS HORSE SALES: APRIL, JUNE, SEPTEMBER and DECEMBER BENNY WOOTON RES 575/625-0071, CELL 575/626-4754 SMILEY WOOTON CELL 575/626-6253 Producers hauling cattle to Roswell Livestock New Mexico Receiving Stations need to call our toll-free number for a Transportation Permit number before leaving home. The Hauling Permit number 1-800/748-1541 is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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by NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN, WWW.WSJ.COM eople who advocate eating less beef often argue that producing it hurts the environment. Cattle, we are told, have an outsize ecological footprint: They guzzle water, trample plants and soils, and consume precious grains that should be nourishing hungry humans. Lately, critics have blamed bovine burps, flatulence and even breath for climate change.

As a longtime vegetarian and environmental lawyer, I once bought into these claims. But now, after more than a decade of living and working in the business—my husband, Bill, founded Niman Ranch but left the company in 2007, and we now have a grass-fed beef company—I’ve come to the opposite view. It isn’t just that the alarm over the environmental effects of beef are overstated. It’s that raising beef cattle, especially on grass, is an environmental gain for the planet.

Let’s start with climate change. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, all of U.S. agriculture accounts for just 8 percent of our greenhouse emissions, with by far the largest share owing to soil management—that is, crop farming. A Union of Concerned Scientists report concluded that about 2 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases can be linked to cattle and that good management would diminish it further. The primary concern is methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

But methane from cattle, now under vigorous study by agricultural colleges around the world, can be mitigated in several ways. Australian research shows that certain nutritional supplements can cut methane from cattle by half. Things as intuitive as good pasture management and as obscure as robust dung beetle populations have all been shown to reduce methane.

At the same time, cattle are key to the world’s most promising strategy to counter global warming: restoring carbon to the soil.

One-tenth of all human-caused carbon emissions since 1850 have come from soil, according to ecologist Richard Houghton of the Woods Hole Research Center. This is due to tillage, which releases carbon and strips the earth of protective vegetation, and to farming practices that fail to return nutrients and organic matter to the earth. Plant-covered land that is never plowed is ideal for recapturing carbon through photosynthesis and for holding it in stable forms.

Most of the world’s beef cattle are raised on grass. Their pruning mouths stimulate vegetative growth as their trampling hoofs and digestive tracts foster seed germination and nutrient recycling. These beneficial disturbances, like those once caused by wild grazing herds, prevent the encroachment of woody shrubs

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and are necessary for the functioning of grassland ecosystems.

Research by the Soil Association in the U.K. shows that if cattle are raised primarily on grass and if good farming practices are followed, enough carbon could be sequestered to offset the methane emissions of all U.K. beef cattle and half its dairy herd. Similarly, in the U.S., the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that as much as 2 percent of all greenhouse gases (slightly less than whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attributed to cattle) could be eliminated by sequestering carbon in the soils of grazing operations.

Grass is also one of the best ways to generate and safeguard soil and to protect water. Grass blades shield soil from erosive wind and water, while its roots form a mat that holds soil and water in place. Soil experts have found that erosion rates from conventionally tilled agricultural fields average one to two orders of magnitude greater than erosion under native vegetation, such as whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typically found on well-managed grazing lands.

Nor are cattle voracious consumers of water. Some environmental critics of cat-

tle assert that 2,500 gallons of water are required for every pound of beef. But this figure (or the even higher ones often cited by advocates of veganism) are based on the most water-intensive situations. Research at the University of California, Davis, shows that producing a typical pound of U.S. beef takes about 441 gallons of water per poundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only slightly more water than for a pound of riceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and beef is far more nutritious.

Eating beef also stands accused of aggravating world hunger. This is ironic since a billion of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest people depend on livestock. Most of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cattle live on land that cannot be used for crop cultivation, and in the U.S., 85 percent of the land grazed by cattle cannot be farmed, according to the U.S. Beef Board.

The bovineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most striking attribute is that it can live on a simple diet of grass, which it forages for itself. And for protecting land, water, soil and climate, there is nothing better than dense grass. As we consider the long-term prospects for feeding the human race, cattle will rightly remain an essential element.

Ms. Hahn Niman is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Productionâ&#x20AC;? (Chelsea Green), from which this is adapted.

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Request your attorney write a contract that includes all specifications and concerns you wish addressed. Typical inclusions in a contract are purpose of contract, land description â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including boundaries, statements that hunters are bound by federal and state game laws, starting and ending dates, amount to be paid, schedule of payments, duties of contractor and client, specific terms, remedies for breach of contract, â&#x20AC;&#x153;as isâ&#x20AC;? clause, non-transferable statement, termination provisions and any closing formalities. Stipulations and conditions covered in the contract may include all ranch rules including areas of the ranch that are off limits, amenities to be provided, names of hunters and guests, the species being hunted, ranch stipulations for quantity or quality of species to be taken, terms that include allowable and forbidden activities. Being specific and detailed on these stipulations and conditions will help ensure your interests are protected and improve landowner-hunter relationships by providing clear expectations. After the contract is written have

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prise. This approach splits the effort where you may be directly involved in marketing the hunts but your employee handles all aspects of the hunt including interactions with the clients. You have more control over the operation and the allegiance of the employee running the hunts. The main disadvantage is the additional cost of hiring someone to act as your agent.

Option three: do it yourself (DIY). This approach affords you complete control over all details and amenities associated with the hunt. This can mean lower overall costs and greater profits at the end of the season. The primary disadvantage is it requires you to directly engage hunters, fill hunter requests, solve problems and tackle personality issues. Additionally, conflicts may arise if hunts coincide with critical farm or ranch operations, such as weaning, shipping or crop harvest. This approach is best suited for someone with the personality and willingness to deal directly with clients. It is not uncommon to earn and develop repeat clientele and lifelong friendships. Regardless of the strategy selected, it is desirable to protect

your insurance agent look it over to ensure it contains appropriate clauses for your liability policy.

Writing a plan will go a long way in informing you if a wildlife enterprise is right for you. A plan might include name of the enterprise, goals and objectives, description of the property including geography, topography and vegetation, current status of wildlife, wildlife population and habitat goals, procedures for conducting systematic population surveys, monitoring of trophy animals and harvest success, habitat and vegetation monitoring, parallel or competing enterprises on the property, methods to integrate wildlife enterprise with farm or livestock enterprises, type of hunts offered, dates of hunts, amenities to offer, price list, list of allowances and prohibitions, and an enterprise specific budget. The descriptive and goal components of a plan help set the stage and direct effort. Monitoring components of a plan provide the information on which annual and long-term decisions will be made. The financial components in a plan help determine profitability and guide decisions on inevitable changes that continued on page 63

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accommodate new circumstances and to increase profits. Through assessment and planning for a wildlife enterprise on your ranch or farm you can determine if such an effort may be possible and an opportunity to diversify income.

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other private land programs through NMDGF or visit them at www.wildlife.state.nm.us/recreation/ hunting/index.htm for information. You may need to obtain an outfitter or guide license depending on the types and extent of your hunts. Contact the Outfitter and Guide Program Coordinator at the number above for more information on circumstances where such licensing is necessary. If you have state or federally managed lands on your ranch or adjacent to your property that you plan to include as part of your wildlife enterprise you will want to contact the appropriate state or federal office to obtain a recreational use permit typically required for commercial opera■ tions on state or federal lands.

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the paradigm of hunting in our great state.

By that, I mean we must push the Department of Game and Fish to recreate a system that fosters the experience of hunting and creates new hunters that appreciate and respect the tie between the land, the owners and stewards of that land, and the wildlife that live on that land. I believe that paradigm shift starts with the recreation of hunting seasons and doing away with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;huntsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as we know them today.

The desire of the Department to manage (or micromanage) hunters and game led to creation over decades of increasingly smaller Game Management Units and scaling hunting seasons down to the typical three and five-day gun hunts and slightly longer archery hunts we live with today.

The end result of the drastically shortened time period is the increasingly common scene that plays out each â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;huntâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by many who get drawn in the Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big game draw â&#x20AC;&#x201C; guys, often with their children, run up and down roads as hard as they can, covering as much ground as they can, and kill the first legal animal they can find. Is that hunting? Will that experience result in those children wanting to pass on the tradition of hunting as described above

to the next generation? Will that scenario, as played out each hunt, lead to positive relationships being built between hunters and landowners? I personally and professionally donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think so.

This is an extremely complex subject with far-reaching implications. In order to remain solvent (and thus, for us to enjoy wildlife in this country as we do today), state wildlife agencies must recruit new hunters, anglers, and trappers. It is that simple. The Department (and indeed most state wildlife agencies) does not get a red penny of our state tax dollars to manage the wildlife of the entire state. They do that job with revenue largely generated through the sale of licenses. I believe they can continue to do that job only with a solid plan in place to ensure the children of today not only have wildlife to hunt in the future, but have a visceral passion for hunting that has been created by valuable time afield and memories that are far more vivid than the kill. Although not created with ill intent, the current system of hunts paints a bleak picture for success. Instead of creating a new generation of responsible hunters, the current system is making it increasingly difficult for parents to teach their children how to hunt and the invaluable lessons of building relationships.

Rather, the current system is churning out new â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;huntersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; who equate the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;huntâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with running and gunning with complete disregard for the land and the game they pursue.

The above is meant to make you think.

It is meant to start a real and open dialogue regarding the future of hunting in New Mexico. Landowners will be key in successful retooling of the current system.

I sincerely believe the re-creation of hunting seasons could correct (over time) a problem that has been decades in the making. Reestablishment of hunting seasons would give folks enough opportunity for real time in the field and an ability to disregard the pressure to kill as soon as possible and to enjoy passing on the tradition of hunting and all that goes with it. More days to hunt does not necessarily equal increased harvest or even increased time afield â&#x20AC;&#x201C; volumes of data exist to those points. Rather, longer hunting seasons spread the pressure over an extended period of time, giving hunters an opportunity to let life get in the way of the hunt.

Longer hunting seasons give hunters a different perspective and a potential return

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Antibiotic Resistance Among Wildlife Even animals that live far from humans are developing resistance to antibiotics

by JOANNA KLEIN ildlife biologist Jurgi CristóbalAzkarate is used to surprise encounters in the remote Mexican jungles he explores for science. But he never expected to find superbugs—bacteria that have developed a resistance to antibiotic medicines—in the feces of wild howler monkeys near Veracruz. These animals rarely see humans, much less drugs.

“I thought, how is this even possible? A monkey can’t have contact with that,” said Cristóbal-Azkarate, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge.

Antibiotic resistance is usually regarded as a threat in places like crowded big-city hospitals or factory-sized feedlots crammed with animals fattened for slaughter—the kinds of places where infection-fighting medicines are heavily used, and sometimes overused, giving

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microbes ample opportunity to evolve resistance to the drugs. But as CristóbalAzkarate’s 2014 Veracruz discovery showed, resistant bacteria are also showing up far from civilization, a surprising development he believes could have alarming implications for humans and animals alike.

In a study published this September in PLOS ONE, Cristóbal-Azkarate and a team of researchers from Cambridge, the University of Washington, and Fundación Lusara in Mexico City reported that they had detected an abundance of bacteria resistant to clinical antibiotics in the feces of seven wild species in the Veracruz region of southeast Mexico. In addition to howler monkeys, the superbugs were present in spider monkeys, tapirs, jaguars, a puma, a dwarf leopard, and jaguarundis— small wildcats native to the area. Moreover, monkeys that lived far from humans were just as likely to harbor drug-resistant bacteria as those that were closer to people.

While the discovery surprised Cristóbal-Azkarate, who primarily studies hormonal influences on primates, other researchers have documented antibiotic resistance in animals all over the world— from wild rodents in Britain to iguanas in

the Galapagos Islands. “Resistance is everywhere. It is found in places that are ‘pristine’ and in places that are ‘polluted,’” said Randall Singer, an epidemiologist at University of Minnesota.

And perhaps it should be no surprise at all: most antibiotics come from bacteria and fungi, to which bacteria have been exposed for millions of years. But in Cristóbal-Azkarate’s study, some isolated bacteria were even resistant to relatively new, synthetic antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones, suggesting that resistance had spread from human-populated areas.

Scientists still don’t have a clear sense of how drug-resistant bacteria have managed to spread so far from the places where such antibiotics are prescribed, however.

It’s unlikely that the Mexican monkeys came into direct contact with these drugs.

More likely, the animals came into contact with human or animal waste that carried the resistant bacteria, having traveled through water or by way of migratory birds. While these bacteria do not seem to be harming their animal hosts, some researchers worry that the superbugs could mutate further and then return to human civilization in unfamiliar forms continued on page 66

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that could be “difficult, if not impossible,” to treat, said Tony Goldberg, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin.

Researchers know that antibiotic-resistant pathogens like Salmonella or E. coli can transfer from farmers to livestock and vice versa, but there’s little evidence to similarly connect humans and wildlife.

“If you live in an environment connected in any way with wildlife, then you will acquire their bacteria, and they will acquire yours. This is the ecology of resistance,” said Singer, who has been studying infectious diseases for 20 years.

According to Cristóbal-Azkarate’s collaborator Carlos Amábile-Cuevas, a microbiologist at Fundación Lusara, “it’s farfetched to have bacteria [from] monkeys actually cause infections in humans.”

Amábile-Cuevas is looking into genetic markers of resistance in the bacteria from these samples. For now, he said, “we are completely in the dark [about] which kind of processes led to this type of resistance.”

J. Cristóbal-Azkarate et al., “Resistance to antibiotics of clinical relevance in the fecal microbiota of Mexican wildlife,” PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/jour nal.pone.0107719, 2014.

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Hunting – Another Arm of Agriculture

by KERRIE COX ROMERO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NEW MEXICO COUNCIL OF OUTFITTERS & GUIDES unting in New Mexico is big business. A recent study published by the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish (NMDGF) on the economic contributions of hunting, fishing, and trapping, showed that on average the hunting segment alone supports roughly 4,700 jobs and contributes more than $265 million to our state GDP annually. This would not be possible if not for the tireless conservation efforts made by private land owners.

New Mexico is unique in that we have far more public land than any state east of us, yet we have more private land than many of the other western states. Because of this dynamic our private landowners are responsible for managing a large portion of the habitat that sustains our state wildlife. As any rancher or farmer knows, stewardship is the nature of the agricultural community and it truly shows in the health and quality of our wildlife.

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attain a reputation for having first class big game hunting and for housing some of the best quality bull elk in the world.

Landowners are incentivized for their conservation efforts through the allocation of landowner hunting permits, another system that is uniquely New Mexico. Several other western states provide similar permit allocations to landowners but none quite like our E-plus and A-plus systems. Although the systems have their fair share of abusers and there are a few minor flaws, nowhere else in the nation are landowners, large and small, recognized for their conservation efforts to the degree that New Mexican landowners and land managers are.

On average the NMDGF allocates roughly 18,000 private land elk and 3,500 antelope permits annually based on the habitat and water provided for that wildlife. Based on a study of the professional hunting industry, conducted by the New Mexico Council of Outfitters & Guides, landowners collected substantial supplemental ag income. And while it’s not widely spoken of, for many in production agriculture, hunting revenues can mean the difference between staying on continued on page 67

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the land or moving to town.

But with that compensation comes great responsibility and while landowners have proven they are at the forefront of wildlife habitat management there is still much to be learned in regards to the overall importance of hunting within the agricultural community. Whether you are allocated 70 landowner permits which you sell to an outfitter as rights of access or you receive one permit which you gift to your brother-in-law, it all starts with educating yourself on the rules and regulations surrounding the hunting industry.

Sometimes landowners agree to hunting arrangements that violate state and federal regulations. For example, did you know that if your ranch is enrolled as a “ranch only” property under the E-plus system your hunters are restricted to hunting the deeded acreage only, even if your public lease acreage lies within the boundaries of the ranch. And, if you or your outfitter provides guided hunts on public land a special use permit is required on State Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management properties.

Separate special use permits are required

for each land type as well as for each ranch. Does your ranch insurance policy National Forest. Also, to obtain such a spe- cover hunting? Does your outfitter list you cial use permit, according to federal regu- as “additional insured” on their policy? Is lations, you must be a licensed outfitter by your outfitter insured at all? If you don’t the NMDGF. A Landowner/Agent agree- know the answer to any of these questions ment is not you may be openadequate to ing yourself up to “(New Mexico has) far outfit hunts dangerous liability on public more public land than any issues. lands even if The many ways the hunts state east of us ... and pri- that farmers and occur on ranchers partner vate landowners are your public with outfitters and grazing lease responsible for managing sportsman are far acreage. too numerous to a large portion of the Having a explain in one short strong workWhether it habitat that sustains our isarticle. ing knowlbig game huntedge of the ing, small game state wildlife.” hunting hunting, fishing or industry can also help you avoid costly trapping, you’ll find these activities taking legal situations that can arise if an individ- place on private lands. And regardless of if ual is injured while hunting on your you are a row crop farmer providing seasonal habitat for migrating sandhill crane or a rancher with the only water source in a five mile radius, hunting is likely your best means of wildlife management. It’s time we realize hunting is really just an extension of the agricultural industry and D V E RT I S E ■ vice versa.

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“. . . Water is for Fighting!”

Catron County is fighting for survival foreign-owned company, the Augustine Plains Ranch, LLC, has applied to the Office of the State Engineer for a permit to drill 37 deep wells and pump 54,000 acre feet of water annually from the San Augustin Plains. They plan to sell the water to unnamed entities in the central part of New Mexico. The San Augustin Water Coalition was formed in 2008 to protest this application.

The LLC owns a very small part of the basin’s landmass (1.4 percent), but if this proposal succeeds, they will control a vast majority of the groundwater in the basin to the detriment of every other rancher and landowner.

The LLC’S first application, submitted in 2007, was eventually denied by the OSE in March, 2012. An appeal to the District Court in Socorro upheld that denial in November, 2012. Their next appeal was to the New Mexico Court of Appeals in January, 2013, and a hearing was scheduled for

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August, 2014.

Before that hearing took place, the LLC filed another application with the OSE. It was much more in-depth, but basically the same proposal to appropriate the same 54,000 acre feet of water and sell it to still unknown entities at some unnamed future time. Speculation at its worst.

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there, and the science is available to do that. The deep aquifer on the San Augustin Plains is such an aquifer. It consists of “ancestral water” deposited during the Pleistocene Epoch which ended around 11,700 years ago.

The Plains watershed is also a closed basin encompassing some 1,992 square miles with no surface streams to supply extra water. Additions come from rain and snow, and those amounts closely match evaporation and leakage rates out of the basin (from Blodgett and Titus, 1973).

Since that report, which estimated 100,000 a.f. of precipitation annually, New Mexico has been in a protracted drought, and nowhere near that amount of precipitation has fallen on the Plains. Topographically high, the Plains also leak groundwater out of numerous faults into other watersheds, including the Gila-San Francisco and the Monticello Box. The LLC should have to provide an independent modeling of the basin to the OSE before any decision is made. Their claim of “hundreds of millions of gallons of water” is without scientific merit. The future of water in New Mexico lies in knowing our limits on use, living within those limits, and dealing with facts instead ■ of corporate greed.

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on time invested in building relationships with landowners that is not realized under the current system.

Maybe I can go to Christianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s football game this weekend because I have three more weekends to go hunting. Maybe I can see Allison perform in her marching band competition on Saturday, because I have next weekend to kill that elk. Maybe, but not under this system. It is flawed. I think fatally. That is the view from â&#x2013; here.

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Why are the feds harassing Navajo shepherds?

Pressure from big mining interests behind government crackdown on the Navajo

by SHANNON SPEED & HALLIE BOAS n late October in a remote area of Arizona called Black Mesa, federal SWAT teams dressed in military flak jackets and wielding assault rifles set up roadblocks and detained people as helicopters and drones circled overhead.

The response made it seem as though police were targeting dangerous criminals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; terrorists, even. But they were actually detaining impoverished Navajo (Dineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) elders accused of owning too many sheep.

For the past month Hopi rangers and agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) have been entering peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land and holding them at gunpoint, with few warrants and little respect for due process.

Community members say they live in fear because of this extreme intimidation in the Hopi Partitioned Lands in northern Arizona.

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The Hopi tribe and the BIA say that over four dozen people have exceeded their permitted limit of 28 sheep per household, which will lead to overgrazing. Even if that were true â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and many people doubt the claim â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it would hardly justify the excessively intimidating approach to the problem. So far, three people have been arrested and more than 300 sheep impounded. Exorbitant fees are levied for people to recover their sheep, which the elderly Navajo residents depend on for their livelihood.

The residents of Black Mesa believe this most recent assault on their livelihood is being funded and instigated by the federal government through the Department of Interior and the BIA as part of an ongoing effort to maintain access to vast coal reserves on their ancestral homelands.

The 1974 Navajo and Hopi Settlement Act made almost a million acres of shared Navajo-Hopi land in northern Arizona exclusive Hopi territory, called Hopi Partitioned Lands. Black Mesa was crisscrossed and split by barbed wire fencing designating boundaries. The Department of Justice undertook a plan to relocate more than 14,000 Navajo and 100 Hopi.

Couched as an effort to resolve what was called the Navajo-Hopi land dispute,

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the act was actually the result of an ongoing effort to exploit mineral resources in the area. The Navajo and Hopi had peacefully coexisted in the area for decades until the discovery of coal led to policies that created corporate-backed tribal governments and divided the tribes over resource exploitation.

The relocation conveniently cleared the way for two of the largest coal strip mines in the country. In its 30 years of operation, Peabody Coalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 103-square-mile Black Mesa mine left a toxic legacy along a 273mile abandoned coal-slurry pipeline, the source of an estimated 325 million tons of climate pollution discharged into the atmosphere. It ceased operations in 2005.

The still-operating Kayenta mine supplies approximately 7.5 million tons of low-sulfur thermal coal annually to the Navajo Generating Station near Page, Arizona. In 2013 the mine sold 7.9 million tons of coal.

Many Navajo resisted relocation. The federal government responded with a war of attrition to undermine their ability to remain on the land. It implemented a building moratorium that included repairs on existing structures and a livestockreduction program that limited the number of animals a family could own.

Because traditional Navajo economy is based on sheep, these programs represented a direct threat to survival. If they cannot raise sheep, they must relocate to areas where they can find some other way to make a living. This will clear the way for further mining concessions, with no one in the area to protest the pollution and dislocation more mines will bring.

Black Mesa resident Louise Benally suggests that the grazing question is a red herring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe overgrazing comes from the air and water pollution [on] Black Mesa. This is the front lines. The atmosphere is so toxified that it is killing everything,â&#x20AC;? she told us in a recent phone interview.

She argues that if sheep grazing is the real concern, a different approach should be taken. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twenty-eight sheep is not enough to sustain a family. If Hopi care about the land, help us with land management education. We need someone qualified who knows the plants and animals to oversee the rotation of animals in these areas,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Shirley Tohannie and elder Caroline Tohannie had their herd of 65 sheep impounded on Oct 22. The Tohanniesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; neighbor Jerry Babbit Lane was arrested

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and charged with disorderly conduct for attempting to intervene on their behalf.

Officials claimed that the grazing permit held by Tohannie’s late husband was no longer valid. In order to get her livestock back, she had to sign a complaint stating that she was trespassing and will have to appear in Hopi tribal court.

In September the U.S. government signed a settlement with the Navajo Nation to pay over half a billion dollars in compensation for the government’s mismanagement of tribal trust resources. At the signing, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell cited President Barack Obama’s desire to improve the nation-to-nation relationship between tribes and the federal government. While this public relations move made national headlines, the simultaneous harassment of Navajo elders and the deliberate effort to deprive them of their ability to remain on their lands did not.

If the federal government really wants to improve its relationship with American Indian tribes, it should start by ending its historical collusion with energy corporations to displace people from their lands for natural resource extraction. The BIA and Department of the Interior should immediately stop impounding Navajo sheep and terrorizing the residents of Black Mesa.

The federal government should then work to forge collaborative nation-tonation relationships that honor all Native people’s right to decide for themselves how to live on and develop their ancestral lands.

I cannot see Tribe’s reproachful headline as saying anything but this: “President Barack Obama, my prized student, acts now as though he has the legislative authority to re-engineer the nation’s electric generating system and power grid. He does not. Obama’s stolen authority – all of it – is unconstitutional.”

Perhaps I take Professor Tribe’s meaning too far. Perhaps he will enlighten us about my presumptions.

But until and unless he does, I stand by my story.

Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. He is the author of nine books, a researcher and editor of ten books, and columnist for the Daily Signal. His pioneering work on exposing the left’s funding, displayed in the Undue Influence website, led to invitations to testify before congressional committees, resulting in a congressional investigation into the left’s funding irregularities.

Shannon Speed is a Chickasaw tribal citizen and a public voices fellow with the OpEd Project. She is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of Native American and indigenous studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hallie Boas is a graduate student in anthropology and Native American and indigenous studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked with the Black Mesa community for six years.

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ECOTERRORISM threat or political ploy?

by SIVAN HIRSCH-HOEFLER AND CAS MUDDE, WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM n 2004, John Lewis, deputy assistant director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division, declared in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee: “the FBI’s investigation of animal rights extremists and ecoterrorism matters is our highest domestic terrorism investigative priority.”

To most Americans this statement, if it had been given serious attention by the U.S. media, would have come as a surprise.

Having been bombarded with articles and public warnings about “jihadist terrorism” ever since 9/11, the average American would not have expected the primary domestic terrorist threat to come from groups such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which are largely unknown to the broader public. In fact, the statement would have likely stunned most academic

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scholars of political violence and terrorism, who until recently have devoted little attention to the phenomenon of “ecoterrorism.”

In a recent article in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, we assessed the phenomenon of ecoterrorism, both in the United States and globally, by categorizing the types of the actions of the Radical Environmentalist and Animal Rights (REAR) movement, assessing their relative importance within the broader arsenal of actions of the whole movement, and evaluating them on the basis of a clear definition of ecoterrorism.

The REAR movement is a highly diverse, international network with an unknown number of activists and supporters worldwide. “Cells” can be found in at least 25 (mostly Western) countries. While radical environmentalists such as the ELF

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and Earth First! are more broadly focused on the entire ecosystem, radical animal rightists like the ALF and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are concerned more narrowly with sentient beings. Still, they regularly collaborate and claim joint responsibility for actions.

Despite the diversity of ideas and ideologies, there are three main characteristics that all activists and groups share: an uncompromising position, status as a grassroots organization and direct action.

In many ways, the REAR movement is best described as an idea; it is a collectivity in the most limited and virtual sense.

A recent publication shows that radical environmentalists and animal rights activists have been responsible for 1,069 criminal acts in the United States between 1970 and 2007. The authors categorize three actions as assassinations (0.3 percent), 44 as armed assaults (4.1 percent), 55 as bombings/explosions (5.1 percent), 933 as facility attacks (87.3 percent), 30 as unarmed assaults (2.8 percent) and four as unknown (0.4 percent).

As no cross-national dataset for criminal acts of the whole REAR movement exists, and even national dataset are lacking in most countries, we developed an original global dataset of criminal acts of the radical animal rights movement in the period 2003-2010. Given that animal rights activists are responsible for the vast majority of criminal acts of the broader REAR movement, and have a roughly similar pattern of activities as environmentalist activists, the findings should be largely representative of the broader REAR movement.

Following previous research, the dataset was constructed on the basis of the information posted on the website of Bite Back magazine, which is both internally and externally seen as “the news magazine about the radical animal rights movement worldwide.” The information on the website is mostly provided directly by activists themselves. Given that the media are highly selective in their coverage of these kind of actions, and law enforcement does

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not systematically collect data in most countries, this imperfect dataset is the best available to date.

We counted a total of 5,578 criminal actions by radical animal rights activists worldwide. Most actions took place in the United Kingdom (994), Sweden (769), Italy (458), the United States (446), and Germany (379). Using a slightly elaborated categorization, we counted 247 acts of arsons (4.4 percent), 0 assassinations (0 percent), 3,695 of vandalism (66.2 percent), 808 house visits (14.5 percent), 690 animal liberations (12.4 percent), 80 bombs (1.4 percent), and 58 cyber crimes (1 percent).

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The question which of these actions constitutes terrorism obviously depends upon the definition used. There has been much discussion among scholars about a working definition of terrorism, and many different ones have been offered. We argue that terrorism goes beyond mere political violence; terrorists terrorize. Essential to terrorism is a psychological process based on the power of fear, more specifically fear for the physical wellbeing of (a subset of) the population. Consequently, we define terrorism as a strategy that employs the threat or use of force or violence to instill fear in (a subset of) the population with the ultimate aim of achieving political goals. In the case of ecoterrorism, these political goals are the ending of environmental destruction and animal rights abuse.

The most straightforward positive case of terrorism is, of course, assassinations.

They are the most obvious example of the use of violence against human beings.

Moreover, because the assassinations are politically motivated, and victims are selected on the basis of political motivations, they instill fear in the subset of the population that meets those political motivations. The most straightforward negative case is animal liberations, which clearly do not constitute acts of terrorism.

While pure animal liberations might create some economic costs, i.e. cutting fences and breaking locks, they do not instill fear, as there is no threat of force or violence to human beings. Similarly, vandalism and cyber attacks, of and by themselves, do not meet the definition of terrorism, even if they could have a more direct personal impact, through the invading of privacy. Even tagging (i.e. spraying graffiti) at or mass mailing to a home address

is not instilling fear, as long as it is not linked to other acts, which are (considered as) threatening to the targeted human beings.

This leaves three types of acts that are less clear-cut: arsons, bombings, and house visits. The case for arsons and bombings is pretty similar. In both cases the question is whether the particular act can be considered threatening to the physical integrity of humans. For example, a car bomb threat at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) inCancun, Mexico was clearly threatening to all humans inside the targeted building and therefore constitutes a terrorist act. However, the torching of a truck belonging to the municipal dog pound in Bariloche, Argentina, in May 2013, was not, because the arson was done in the night and the truck was not close to a private residence.

More problematic are the various cases of arson that target properties close to private residences and include thinly veiled threatening messages. For instance, in October 2012, Swedish ALF activists set fire to one of the cars of the owner of a fur store in Kumla. Not only was the car torched in front of the home of the target, the ALF included the following message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is just a warning of what is coming if

you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end your involvement in the bloody skintrade[sic] NOW!!!.â&#x20AC;? The last type of action, house visits, is even more complex, as it is often not only aimed at the actual target, but also at her friends and family. Many house visits are legal, such as demonstrating on public streets outside of a private residence. Others are illegal, but not necessarily threatening, such as demonstrations at a private residence. Even actions that expose (young) individuals to gruesome pictures of experiments on animals are not necessarily illegal or threatening. However, relatively harmless acts can become terrorist acts if they are accompanied with threatening messages.

So, where does this leave us with regard to the term ecoterrorism? There is no doubt that certain acts of the REAR movement are terrorist. And there are some small groups within the movement that do not exclude terrorist acts. But despite ongoing radicalization within the movement, the vast majority of REAR activists and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;groupsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are not involved in terrorist acts. While it is difficult to exactly establish the proportion of terrorist acts within the total action repertoire of the REAR movecontinued on page 75

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It’s a practical decision because she’s fixed supper, done the dishes, helped the kids with their homework, got ‘em off to bed, returned the phone calls, is workin’ on the books and she’s up . . . and away! And he’s been asleep in the Barcalounger since 8:30. Of course, this obligates him to the 2 a.m. heifer check. Which is also a practical decision, ‘cause If he’s over 50, he’s up anyway!

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Customers Face High Energy Prices Thanks to European Climate Agenda espite 18 years of no global warming, European nations have continued to push a climate change agenda, to the detriment of consumers, writes Sterling Burnett of the Heartland Institute.

The European Union agreed to the Kyoto Protocol in 2002, pledging to reduce its carbon emissions to 8 percent below 1990 levels. But, forced to comply with emissions limits not imposed on other parts of the world, Burnett writes that many European businesses fled, moving to countries with lower energy costs and no emissions limits.

Climate change policy has been extraordinarily expensive for Europe: ■ From 2004 to 2013, EU states spent $882 billion on renewable energy projects.

■ By 2030, Germany – whose citizens face some of the highest energy costs in all of Europe – could alone spend $1 trillion transitioning to renewable energy.

■ Electricity prices in Europe are twice that of the United States.

■ Relative to Europe, the U.S. manufacturing – operating with lower energy prices – saved $130 billion in 2012.

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ment, we estimate that less than 10 percent of all criminal actions of the movement can be categorized as “ecoterrorist.” Note that criminal acts constitute only a minority of all acts of both the environmental and animal rights subculture in general, and the REAR movement in particular.

Every major social movement includes moderate and radical individuals and groups, including often a small violent (terrorist) minority. This was the case in, for example, both the recent anti-globalization movement and the historical civil rights movement. No one would classify these movements, as a whole, as terrorist.

Today, the U.S. anti-abortion movement includes a significant and very active radical wing that is involved in criminal acts and even terrorism. Unlike the REAR movement, academics, government agencies and politicians hardly ever refer to the radical anti-abortion movement as terrorist.

Similarly, the label “ecoterrorism” should not be used for the whole REAR movement, but only for some of its actions, individuals and groups; this also holds for the most active ‘groups’ within the broader movement, i.e. ALF and ELF. Obviously, counterterrorist measures should only target these terrorist minorities, rather than the broader movement.

Just as every radical anti-abortion activist is not a (potential) terrorist, neither is every radical environmentalist or animal rights activist.

Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler is an assistant professor in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. She works on political extremism and political violence, with a particular emphasis on Israel.

Cas Mudde is an associate professor in the School for Public and International Policy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of “Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe” & editor of Youth & the Extreme Right. He is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network and can be followed on Twitter @casmudde.

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NDAA wo massive budget bills passed Congress just before they adjourned, both of which have impacts on property rights and federal lands.

First up is the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Yes that legislation, purportedly to fund our national defense, contains the largest federal lands package to pass Congress since the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act. The natural resources title of the bill contains approximately 70 riders and takes up many pages of this huge bill.

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ignations. Within the Wilderness provisions is a section sponsored by Senator Heinrich that designates the 45,000-acre Columbine-Hondo Wilderness in northern New Mexico.

It also contains the Heinrich-Udall language to transfer the Valles Caldera Preserve from a multiple-use trust to the sole jurisdiction of the National Park Service.

In a joint statement Senators Heinrich and Udall say the transfer is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to increase public access.â&#x20AC;? In a floor statement Senator Heinrich says current management has resulted in â&#x20AC;&#x153;drastically limited public access with relatively high entrance and permit feesâ&#x20AC;? and the new management will result in â&#x20AC;&#x153;expanded public access.â&#x20AC;? A more realistic assessment comes from the Washington Post: The Park Service is taking on Valles Caldera and numerous other properties at a time when the agency is struggling with

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The transfer does include grazing language, but it has long been National Park Service policy to discontinue grazing on its lands, so we shall see.

There is, however, some welcome grazing language in the natural resources title of the bill. For years the Forest Service and the BLM have been behind on thousands of NEPA analysis documents on the renewal or transfer of grazing permits. I know, it is ridiculous to do a NEPA analysis on a permit that allows something to continue as is, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the DC Deep Thinkers have brought us. The problem has received a band-aid fix each year, but this new language gives us a permanent fix. It reads, in part, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The terms and conditions in a grazing permit or lease that has expired, or was terminated due to a grazing preference transfer, shall be continued under a new permit or lease until the date on which the Secretary concerned completes any environmental analysis and documentation for the permit or lease required under the National Environmental Policy Act.â&#x20AC;? Also included is language which says the issuance of a new grazing permit may be categorically excluded from NEPA if certain conditions are met. The final version of the grazing provision did not contain the language Senator Heinrich had pushed in the Senate which would have allowed for the permanent retiring of grazing permits in New Mexico.

Both New Mexico Senators were supportive of the natural resource package. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Protecting these special and important places will increase tourism and create jobs in the surrounding communities while ensuring New Mexicans can enjoy them for generations to comeâ&#x20AC;?, said Senator Udall. Senator Heinrich remarked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a historic moment and absolutely critical for jobs across the western United States and particularly in New Mexico. The continued on page 78

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Pet Scans

ur health care system really has gone to the dogs. The latest on ObamaCare is that hospitals and insurance companies are looking to cut costs by using dogs to diagnose patients and detect diseases. I am not kidding! We already use dogs to sniff for bombs, drugs, missing persons and incoming suitcases for foreign bugs so why not use dogs to sniff out diseases too?

I’m all for handing off medicine to a bunch of mutts, after all, they can’t be any worse than the surgeon who gave a patient two parallel scars because he had the x-ray upside down. And dogs will no doubt be cheaper, are far more personable and have better bedside manner than most doctors I've known.

Ever since 1989 we have known that dogs have a nose for detecting diseases in the human body. In 2003 all five dogs in a study were able to detect cancer with a 98 percent accuracy rate, which is a lot better than my doctor ever did. The reason dogs are able to do this is because they have between 125 and 300 million scent glands in their nose compared to humans with a paltry five million. They can smell 10,000 times better than your average human. To put it another way, if you put one drop of blood into a body of water the size of 20 olympic swimming pools the dog could smell the blood in the water. And if young children were swimming in the pool the dogs can also detect that many of the kids should have used the restroom before diving in.

In double blind tests dogs have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they can detect the smell of cancer in a human body, and in many cases the cancer was in Stage 0, even before the tumors had begun forming. It makes you wonder, what’s next, CAT scans using real cats?

This is all possible because everything we do produces chemical changes in the body and these changes produce unique smells. Think chili beans, for instance. But I’m not referring to those smells, I’m talking about the smells produced by diseases.

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smelling a person’s breath, have detected lung, breast, bladder and even one of the worst, ovarian cancer. Dogs have also been trained to let diabetics know when their blood sugar gets too low. I’m sure all diabetics would agree, having a dog bark at you is much better than continually jabbing a sharp needle into your finger tips.

There is also some scientific thought that dogs can smell when a person is getting ready to have a heart attack! Who says dogs aren’t man’s (and woman’s) best friend?

Researchers say that they can train dogs to do all these wonderful things if there is something in it for the dog: a treat, in other words. Which means they are just like doctors, only in dog's case, we’re talking about a Milk Bone instead of a Ferrari.

If the dogs detect the presence of a disease they are taught to make some sort of sig-

nal such as sitting down, wagging their tail or barking. The problem is that we don’t know when they are signaling us, or if they are just tired, happy, or like to bark. After all, we don’t want someone going through radiation or prostate surgery just because a German Shorthair dog “pointed” at their tailpipe.

All this does raise a few questions. In the future will a nurse practitioner introduce you to Dr. Shih , or Dr. X Ray, and will the dog then sniff you from head to tail?

Will Dr. Dog smell your breath and diagnose you with gum disease or vegetarianism instead of lung cancer? Would Dr. Dog’s diagnosis be thrown off if you ate an entire onion or clove of garlic before blowing in the the dog’s face? And if one dog suspects something does he then refer you to a pack of specialists at the Ham and Mayo Clinic?

The big problem is not enough dogs can be trained for every doctor’s office in America. What will probably happen is you'll give a urine or breath sample and it will be sent off to a Lab. And I do mean Lab. ■

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public lands package will help grow our economy in the energy, tourism, sporting and recreation sectors.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad to report that neither Senator mentioned livestock grazing. In fact, Senator Heinrich gave a floor speech containing 1,379 words and never mentioned livestock grazing once. Therein he stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical public land based economic engine will continue to grow in the energy, tourism, sporting and recreation sectors.â&#x20AC;?

He even specifically mentioned his efforts in the bill â&#x20AC;&#x153;to streamline the oil and gas drilling permit processâ&#x20AC;?, but nothing about the livestock grazing permit process. I guess itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to include livestock grazing in his â&#x20AC;&#x153;public land based economic engineâ&#x20AC;? while at the same time trying to arrange for its permanent retirement.

CRomnibus The second item produced by our crafty Congressmen is an appropriations bill dubbed CRomibus because it is an omnibus spending bill for eleven agencies and a continuing resolution (CR) for one other. The bill funds the eleven agencies through September 30, 2015 and is a CR for the Dept. of Homeland Security because of the outrage over Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

actions on immigration.

The agencies that hold most of our interest are contained in the regular appropriations and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let anybody tell you about severe cuts in the budget. The EPA is the only entity to receive an actual cut, in its case a well deserved -$60 million. All the other agencies of interest (BLM, FS, USFWS, etc.) received increases, and the four land management agencies received $306 million for more land acquisition.

The big news in this bill are the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;ridersâ&#x20AC;?, which are policy directives stipulated by Congress. In most cases these are â&#x20AC;&#x153;no money shall be spentâ&#x20AC;? type insertions.

One of the biggest riders will prevent the listing of the sage grouse as an endangered species for one year. The critical habitat for the sage grouse would cover millions of acres over multiple states and this gives some breathing space to those states working diligently on programs to prevent a listing. Another rider of great importance would prevent the EPA from implementing its redefinition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;waters of the U.Sâ&#x20AC;? which would have resulted in a huge land grab by the feds.

Other riders of interest would: Prevent the government from requiring reports on â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenhouse gas emissions from manure

management systemsâ&#x20AC;?; prohibits any requirement that ranchers obtain greenhouse gas permits for â&#x20AC;&#x153;methane emissionsâ&#x20AC;? produced by bovine flatulence or belching; prevents contributions to the U.N.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Green Climate Fund (Obama had pledged $3 billion); prohibits the regulation of lead in ammunition and fishing; and prevents the closure of 250 FSA offices.

Michellenibus Oh yes, Michelle Obama and the other DC Deep Thinkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to control the food intake of our children is in the CRomnibus too. The School Nutrition Association didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive their first goal, which was a waiver for those schools which were losing money because of the new standards. However, the bill does suspend further salt reductions, grants exemptions from the 100 percent whole grain standard and ends the ban on potatoes! We all know what goes good with potatoes.

And all that, my friends, is why these tired old eyes will never be the same.

Till next time, be a nuisance to the devil and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to check that cinch.

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Overall, a financially positive year should be in place for New Mexico agriculture in 2015.

Beef cattle markets in New Mexico will continue to show strength across all classes of cattle. Short supplies coupled with a strong fed cattle market will drive the beef cattle model for 2015. Prices are anticipated to show moderate growth in 2015, but not significantly greater than 2014. Range conditions across New Mexico will be a key indicator of future beef cattle numbers for the state. Currently, beef cattle numbers are reflective of many regions of the United States as producers continue to work through the restocking process created by extreme drought conditions.

New Mexico’s dairy industry has continued to build from the financial challenges of recent years. Milk prices are anticipated to fall significantly in the first-half of 2015 from the high levels experienced in 2014.

Projections improve for the industry for the second-half of 2015, with moderate price recoveries anticipated. Primary input prices such as alfalfa and corn silage will reflect prices that should be relatively flat from levels experienced in 2014. The combination of prices received and input costs should allow the industry to break-even, or even post moderately positive financial outcomes for New Mexico producers in 2015.

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Global economic outlook is an important factor in an ever-increasing world market. World economic growth is expected to be 4.0 percent, advanced economies growing at a rate 2.4 percent and the United States projected growth rate, 3.0 percent. Growth in developing nations is an important function for the demand of agricultural commodities. Citizens of these growth regions often demand a more diverse and enhanced diet as income levels increase. World demand, a recovering economic situation and lower input prices should all combine for a positive financial year for agriculture in ■ 2015.

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New Mexico’s Old Times and Old Timers

Giovanni Maria Deagostini

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Who was El Ermitaño, & Who Killed Him? hat a man who was called El Solitario or El Ermitaño lived in New Mexico around the middle years of the 19th century is certainly a fact. He was wellknown in the Las Vegas area where he lived in the mountains—Hermit’s Peak near town is named for him—and in the Las Cruces/Mesilla area where he lived in a cave in the Organ Mountains east of town.

Little about him can be stated with much certainty.

The problems begin with his name.

Some writers asserted it was Giovanni Maria Deagostini; others have insisted that it is correctly d’Agostini or Marie Augustine, or Juan Bautista Agustiniani, and several others. Folks couldn’t even agree on a sobriquet. Some preferred El Solitario (the solitary or lonely one) while others referred to him as El Ermitaño (the hermit). Historian Arthur L. Campa, who examined the entire matter of his life and death, wrote, “It has never been strictly determined what his actual name was….”

He was said to have been born in northern Italy, but there is a question as to exactly where. Compa wrote that accord-

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ing to one of his sources El Ermitaño “. . . was born in the Province of Novara in Lombardy. There is no Province of Novara, but there is a village by that name in Piedmont, which is next to Lombardy.” Historian Daniel Aranda states that El Ermitaño was born in “Lombardia.”

Again, there are questions about his upbringing and education. One source stated that as a young man he rejected the riotous living in which his father engaged in favor of the Church and a quiet life.

Before he could complete his religious education, though, he became infatuated with a young woman and succumbed to earthly desire. Whatever became of that relationship is not reported, but at some point after it ended—if indeed there ever was such an assignation—he swore to devote his life to penance, service to humanity, and personal solitude. Somewhere along the way, he also became disillusioned with the Catholic Church and turned away from much church doctrine.

Some sources aver that he began his life of wandering by about 1827, and that his travels took him various places in

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Europe, before he arrived in Venezuela, South America, in 1838. After further travels which took him back to Europe and then to Central America and Mexico he found himself in Council Grove, Kansas, where in May 1863 he met Manuel Romero y Baca, a Santa Fe trader, who was about to embark on a trip to New Mexico over the Santa Fe Trail. El Ermitaño accompanied the wagon train, but did not ride. He walked to Las Vegas.

Over the years, el Ermitaño is said to have learned a great deal about healing, and he applied that knowledge to the folks in Las Vegas who needed his attention. He did not perform miracles, nor did he pretend to. A local man, Hipólito Baca, said this: “People say that he performed miracles, but that isn’t so. He was a religious man, but since he did not believe in the sacraments he could not have been given the power to perform miracles. All the Hermit ever wanted was to live in solitude.”

One day, unceremoniously, he announced that he’d be leaving shortly, and he did, even though his followers beseeched him not to abandon them. He said that Mexico beckoned him. He arrived in Mesilla, New Mexico, in 1867, perhaps as a part of another wagon train.

One source reported that he went south at the behest of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain of Mesilla. Yet another reported that El Ermitaño left Las Vegas and traveled south to seek legal counsel from Col. Fountain. And as El Ermitaño’s story came to a tragic conclusion, it is said that Col. Fountain played a major part. And there is more. One historian wrote: “In the spring of 1867, the Hermit arrived in Old Mesilla and presented himself to Colonel Albert J. Fountain, with whom he arranged a system of signal fires [to be lit each Friday evening, as long as he was alive]. He then retired to a retreat in the Organ Mountains. In April 1869, no signal fires were seen. A search party found the anchorite’s body with a dagger thrust in his back.” continued on page 81

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One source even reported that Col. Fountain organized the posse which investigated the death of the Hermit.

Because so many historians and other writers make reference to a relationship between El Ermitaño and Fountain it seems likely that they were at least acquainted; but how did that come to pass?

Albert Jennings Fountain arrived in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley with the California Column in August 1862. He remained active in military pursuits in southern New Mexico until he was wounded in an Indian ambush in June 1865 and went to El Paso, Texas, to recover. Back on his feet, he commenced a law practice in Texas, and became active in Republican politics there. He was elected to the Texas State Senate and became president of that body. He and his family remained in Texas until December 1873 when he returned to Mesilla.

The point is, of course, that Fountain did not reside in Mesilla during the time that El Ermitaño resided east of the town.

Not only that, the notion that Fountain was among those who found the Hermit’s body in 1869 is disputed by historian Daniel Aranda who noted that the party that discovered the old man missing included Mariano Barela, Antonio Garcia, Pedro Onopa and Rodrigo Ruelas. No mention is made of Fountain.

So, how did El Ermitaño and Fountain meet?

Several sources mention that El Ermi-

taño spent some time in West Texas, in the El Paso area, before he settled into his cave in the Organ Mountains, so it is possible that the two men met there in the late 1860s. It is also possible that Don Manuel Romero y Baca of Las Vegas, who was earlier acquainted with Fountain, provided el Ermitaño with an introduction to the colonel.

However they met, the Fountain family came into possession of what few personal effects El Ermitaño left behind. But it is of passing note that three of Fountain’s biographers—Gordon R. Owen, A. M. Gibson and Dan Thrapp—make no mention of any relationship between the colonel and El Ermitaño.

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And what of the Hermit’s death on or about April 17th of 1869? More mystery.

One source reported that the group mentioned above only found that the old man was not present at his cave; that his body was found later by a sheepherder. Another reported that his body was found inside his cave, dressed only in underwear and stabbed in the back with a dagger. Yet others stated that searchers found his body some distance from his cave, pierced with arrows. Some believed that he was killed

by Apaches; others think he was slain by robbers. Local legend held that a man called El Indio Chacón did the foul deed, or, failing that, a priest named Manuel Chávez was the guilty party. No one was ever convicted of the crime.

Deagostini is interred at Mesilla and his personal effects are housed at the Gadsden Museum there.

Selected sources: Aranda, Daniel, “Western Lore,” Wild West, October 2006 Aranda, Daniel, “A Reflection on the Enigmatic Hermit,” Southern New Mexico Historical Review, January 2007 Don Bullis, New Mexico Historical Biographies Thomas E. Chávez, An Illustrated History of New Mexico (Photograph) Fugate & Fugate, Roadside History of New Mexico Elizabeth Ann Galligan, “El Solitario: The Man Who Lived in Caves,” Voices of New Mexico, Too A. M. Gibson, The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain Robert Julyan, The Place Names of New Mexico Gordon R. Owen, The Two Alberts: Fountain and Fall David Pike, Roadside New Mexico Dan Thrapp, Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography Weigle & White, The Lore of New Mexico

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Convention …

2014 Bruce & Alice King Service Award

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ past & current presidents presented the 100th Anniversary Cake. (l to r) Bill Sauble, Rex Wilson, Bert Ancell, Bebo Lee, Wesley Grau, José Varela López & Alisa Ogden. Alisa lit the cake under Bebo’s direction.

Presented by José Varela López, NMCGA President ew Mexicans were blessed with tremendous examples of what public service and love of community really means in the persons of Bruce and Alice King who will always be known as the Governor and First Lady of New Mexico.

Since their passing, the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association has chosen to remember those examples and Bruce and Alice’s memory by honoring other New Mexicans who follow in their footsteps.

Like most of our awards, the King Service Award has gone to one or two individuals.

During this special Centennial Year we have chosen a different route.

While our honoree tonight is a youngster, it has been a vital part of the engine that keeps agriculture in the forefront in New Mexico. From the top all the way to the interns, everyone at the New Mexico Department of Agriculture is always available to service no matter the day of the week or the time of the day . . . or night.

Would Director Secretary Jeff Witt and all the staff at NMDA please come up? ■

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Some of the crew at the New Mexico Department of Agriculture accepted the Bruce & Alice King Memorial Service Award. (l to r) Anthony Para, Tim Hanosh, Larry Dominguez, José Varela López and Director Secretary Jeff Witte. The award was the creation of Alicia Briggs, NMCGA/NMWGI staffer.

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2014 Ayudando Award Presented by José Varela López, President NMCGA here are countless people behind, and sometimes in front, of the scenes who support and have made the work of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association possible for the past century. Nearly two decades ago the Ayudando “You are always there” Award was established to honor those individuals within and outside the Association who give their 100 percent

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All of the New Mexico CowBelles accepted the Ayudando Siempre Aye Award for all their years of always being there.

to our families and our businesses.

Traditionally the award has been given to individuals who come from all walks of life and all sorts of careers, but they all care about ranchers and our families. They give of themselves at a variety of levels. Some of them we have known forever, others are newer friends, but they all give of themselves for our benefit — they are always there.

This year we are stepping out of the box

a bit to honor not an individual but a group made up of individuals who stand beside us as an Association and as individual ranchers. They didn’t become official until 1957 but by whatever name, they have always been there to back us up . . . and they often lead us when we don’t even know that we are being or need to be led.

Would Madelyn Lee and all the CowBelles in the room please come forward to accept this token of our appreciation? ■

2015 NMCGA Cattleman of the Year Presented by Stirling Spencer, 2014 Cattleman of the Year ince 1952 the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association has honored one of its own for their selfless generosity to the Association, our industry, our families, our state, our region and often our nation. The winner is nominated and selected by the Board of Directors.

One of the duties of the most immediate Cattleman of the Year is to present the award to the incoming honoree.

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Alisa Ogden was honored as the 2015 Cattleman of the Year. Pictured here (l to r): Lori Ponge, Marcee McGucking, Peggy Medrano and her husband Jaime, Craig Ogden, Judy Norman, Al Porter, Bevery Gabaldon, Mitch Selking, Alisa, Shacey Sullivan and José Varela López.

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2014 Inspector of the Year Presented by Bill Sauble, Sauble Ranch Bill Sauble, Sauble Ranch, presents he New Mexico the 2015 Inspector Cattle Growers’ of the Year Award Association and its to Barry Allen. members depend on

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the Livestock Board and its force of inspectors each and every day and night of the year. The partnership between the Association and the Board is century old and we salute the Livestock Board for their more than 125 year history of service.

This year’s inspector of the year is Barry Allen. His nomination comes from multiple folks in his area who don’t lavish praise but who value hard work and dedication to service. This is an honor they believe Barry has earned many times over.

Barry Allen has been with the NMLB since April 2003. He received his Law Enforcement Certification in May 2005 and has supervised District 13 since 2009.

This district has historically been one of the busiest districts in the state with four livestock sales each week, over 80 country inspections, over 70 dairies, two major feed yards, a calf grow yard with over 40,000 head and seven beef grow yards.

He has been involved in some of the NMLB’s most challenging cases including theft, cruelty and criminal drug cases. He

has led this district with integrity, respect and honor. His unselfish dedication to his job, always upbeat attitude, and attention to the needs of the industry, are the qualities that make him a great supervisor and inspector.

Sauble Ranch is proud to sponsor this award.

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ties in their commitment to the future of our industry, there are always things that set them apart. In the case of this year’s winner there are more than a few things that set her apart. You never have to wonder where she stands on an issue. She has been involved in the NMCGA literally her whole life. She is probably the first Cattleman of the Year who was also Junior Cattle

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PURINA MILLS SCHOLARSHIP Purina Animal Nutrition PROGRAM New Mexico Stockman /Caren Cowan AYUDANDO SIEMPRE ALLI AWARD Farmway Feed & Equipment Company CHILDREN’S LOUNGE Caren Cowan, New Mexico Stockman LIVESTOCK INSPECTOR OF THE YEAR Sauble Ranch PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS Alisa Ogden DTMC Limited New Mexico CowBelles Ag New Mexico, FSC, ACA WATER RIGHTS Ag New Mexico, FSC, ACA CS Ranch Dow AgroSciences Hermanas Ranch Dairy Producers of New Mexico WILDLIFE ADM Alliance Nutrition New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service New Mexico Association Conservation Districts

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GENERAL SESSION Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. Farmway Feed & Equipment Company Zinpro Corporation COMMITTEE SPONSORS Federal & Trust Lands Committee Hat Ranch, Inc. Membership Committee Clayton Ranch Market Natural Resources Committee: The Lane Trust Private Property Committee: Williams Windmill, Inc. Promotion & Marketing Committee: Nutrition Plus Theft & Health Committee: New Mexico Livestock Board Water Committee: Ag New Mexico, FSC, ACA Wildlife Committee: R.L. Cox Company HOSPITALITY SUITE AC Nutrition Agri Laboratories, Ltd. American Akaushi Association Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. Dow AgroSciences Farmway Feed & Equipment Co. Hi-Pro Feeds Horse & Hound JANUARY 2015

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Grower of the Year some years back. Since then she has been keeping us in line in one way or another. You only have to ask if you need her help.

She was the first female to hold the office of NMCGA president, following in her grandfather’s footsteps more than 50 years earlier. Alisa Ogden is a rare gem in so many ways. Like many multi-generation ranch family offspring, she was required to go to college and then find a job outside agriculture before she was allowed to come home and become a partner in the Ogden family ranching and farming operations. Her father Jim Ogden said Lisa had finished her Masters in Athletic Training at CSU and was employed

there but after a short time called him and said she wanted to come home to ranch.

He told her that he couldn’t pay her what she was making up there but she said it didn’t matter, cattle don’t talk back. Thus, she left Colorado and headed home.

She has risen to a position in leadership in everything she has tackled. In addition to serving countless capacities in NMCGA, she has been an active member of the Cotton Council. She has been an active member of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and its predecessors. She traveled on the Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Tour — missing out on some of the notorious parties because she was several months pregnant. In 2015 she will serve as Vice Chairman of the group’s Resolution Committee.

Zinpro Corporation Y-Tex Jerry & Fita Witte

Golden Insurance Agency, P.C. Micro Beef Technologies O’Neill Agricultural Land LLC Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association Tom & Kay Payne Robert L. Homer & Assoc., LLC Rocking R Ranch Stone Manufacturing Williams Windmill, Inc. White Herefords Zinpro Corporation Y-Tex

COFFEE BREAK AC Nutrition Alan P. Morel, P.A. B & H Herefords – Pinon, NM Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. Conniff Cattle Company Farm Credit of New Mexico Insurance Services of New Mexico Leavitt Group Southwest, Inc. Major Ranch Realty Merck Animal Health New Mexico Agricultural Leadership New Mexico Forest Industry Association New Mexico Hereford Association New Mexico Society for Range Management O’Neill Agricultural Land LLC Robert L. Homer & Assoc., LLC Sierra Alta Ranch, LLC Tamara G. Hurt, CPA PC Stone Manufacturing T & T Trailers Mesa Tractor

2014 TRADE SHOW PARTICIPANTS AC Nutrition ADM Alliance Nutrition Ag New Mexico, FCS, ACA Agri Laboratories, Ltd. Agridyne, LLC American Akaushi Association Animal Health Express Animal Health International / Merial Bradley 3 Ranch, LTD Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. Centerfire Real Estate Clayton & Corona Research Centers Clubhouse Designs Dow Agro Sciences Farm Credit of New Mexico / GM Ranch Giant Rubber Water Tanks Gold Standard Labs Golden Insurance Agency, P.C. Hi-Pro Feeds Insurance Services of NM, Inc. J.D. Heiskell & Company

Thank you one & all! hen Please think of them w you need products for services!

In addition to all of this Lisa is extremely active in her church and her local community often ending as treasurer and/or parliamentarian or both of multiple groups.

But without a doubt Lisa’s proudest accomplishment is her son Cody, whom she reared as a single mom. Cody isn’t with us tonight — because he is midway through his junior year at the Naval Academy.

It couldn’t be more appropriate to honor Alisa this year as the NMCGA celebrates our first 100 years.

Would Craig Ogden and Lisa’s friends please come up and join us?

And we want to thank Al Porter, Farm Credit of New Mexico and CO Bank, sponsors of the Cattleman of the Year Award. ■

Lambski Merck Animal Health Mesa Tractor, Inc Micro Beef Technologies National Ranching Heritage Center / Ranching Heritage Association New Mexico Ag Leadership New Mexico Department of Agriculture New Mexico Department of Game & Fish New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau New Mexico Horse Council New Mexico Livestock Board New Mexico Premier Ranch Real Estate New Mexico Youth Ranch Camp Norbrook Nutrition Plus Power Ford Purina Mills Robert L. Homer & Associates, LLC Scott Land & Cattle Shoeshine Booth Southwest Border Food Safety & Defense Center & Agro Guard TCU Ranch Management USDA Farm Service Agency USDA National Agricultural Statistic Service USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service W & W Water Tanks Westall Ranch Y-Tex / Stone Mfg Young Insurance & Riley/Knight Appraisal Zinpro Corporation

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American Gelbvieh Association 303-465-BEEF (2333) • www.gelbvieh.org

March 7, 2015 Private Treaty Opening Day A powerful Set of Gelbvieh & Balancer Bulls

DAVE & DAWN BOWMAN 55784 Holly Road Olathe, CO 81425 970/323-6833

www.bowkranch.com REGISTERED GELBVIEH CATTLE Reds • Blacks • Balancers® FEMALES PRIVATE TREATY

Red or Black All Polled • PAP Tested Bulls Available to View at 10:30 a.m.

“POT OF GOLD” BULL SALE Friday, February 27, 2015

Lunch at Noon Bid-off at 1 p.m.

Producers of Quality & Performance Tested Brahman Bulls & Heifers

of 380 days or less with a minimum of supplemental inputs. Yet they produce an extremely attractive feeder calf with ample growth, carcass merit and feed efficiency.

The prevailing selection criteria in the US cattle industry during the last 50 years has been growth, growth efficiency and carcass merit. As a result we have increased mature size and with it maintenance requirements. In the West and Northern Mexico where our cows averaged 900 to 1,000 lbs now we have cows in the 1,300 to 1,400 lbs range. It was easy to “over power” our resources and as a result we have decreased reproductive rates. Our neighbor, the State of Sonora Mexico, battles a 50 to 55 percent reproductive rate.

Following the example of Bar T Bar, on very similar environment and terrain, Gelbvieh and Balancer genetics were introduced into Sonora close to 20 years ago.

The rain cycles in Arizona and Sonora have been historically poor during this period. The results were as expected, the base herd was started at Rancho La Cieneguita, Cananea, Sonora. The acceptance and popularity of the breed grew leaps and bounds and Mexico now recognizes the Balancer as a breed and the Mexican Association now keeps herdbooks for the Gelbvieh, Balancer and Gelbra breeds. The association is based in Hermosillo, Sonora.

A breed up operation was started in the early 1990s at El Valle Ranch, at the corner of New Mexico, Sonora and Chihuahua.

Using high quality bulls from La Cieneguita and imported bulls from the US. With little supplementation, the weaning rate in the last 5 years has exceeded 80 percent and 75 percent of the two-year-old heifers are calving un-assisted from January to July 1st calving season.

The Gelbvieh and Balancer breeds offer the cattlemen of our area a low input, high fertility cow which produces a highly accepted export calf and a heifer mates ■ that will excel as cows.

“Beef-type American Gray Brahmans, Herefords, Gelbvieh and F-1s.”

Available at All Times Loren & Joanne Pratt 44996 W. Papago Road Maricopa, AZ 85139 520 / 568-2811 Balancer sired steer out of Sim-Angus cow

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Lunch will be Served

Tested for Fertility, PAP, Trich, PI-BVD Selected for Calving Ease, Growth, Carcass, Disposition, Soundness Producing Bulls that work at high elevations, rough conditions, calve easy, produce heavy weaning weights, & produce females that are efficient, breed back & wean a high percentage of their body weight.

Call us so we can help pick the Bulls that will work the best for you.

BLACK & RED BALANCERS

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Gelbvieh Leads the Way in Maternal Profitability The American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) announces the release of the Maternal Edge Female Profile for producers to use on commercial females he AGA has long been focused on promoting the maternal superiority that Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle possess.

Today, they are the leader in helping producers improve profitability through maternal efficiency. Producers using Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle have access to tools such as Heifer Pregnancy and 30month Pregnancy (PG30) EPDs, the $Cow index and now the new Maternal Edge Female Profile to help gain maternal efficiency in their herd.

This DNA profile, done in conjunction with Geneseek®, is a low-density panel to be used by producers as a sorting tool for Gelbvieh and Balancer® influenced commercial females.

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weight. These traits are measured for the female against the entire Gelbvieh population with Molecular Breeding Values (MBVs). Each female tested with the Maternal Edge Female Profile will receive a score of 1 to 10 for each of the six traits.

The Maternal Edge Female Profile has heavy emphasis on maternal characteristics but also includes end-product traits as well. Because the majority of steer calves and a portion of heifers out of a cowherd end up in a feedyard, it is beneficial for more than just maternal traits to be evaluated in a commercial female panel.

Parent verification is also included in the panel, if the option is selected on the order form and sire and dam have parentage markers on file with the AGA. “We are excited to offer this tool to members and commercial producers as a way to choose superior females in their herd and gain a competitive maternal edge in the beef industry,” says Kari White, American Gelbvieh Association breed improvement data analyst.

The Maternal Edge Female Profile was developed to help commercial producers track and manage the impact Gelbvieh and Balancer females have on profitability.

These females offer maternal superiority

through several traits such as added fertility, increased longevity and the ability to wean more pounds of calf per cow exposed.

In today’s competitive beef industry, high quality females are a must for any successful operation. This new DNA profile helps assure producers are choosing the best ■ females to keep in their herd.

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Sadly, football season is over until next Fall, but Wilkinson Gelbvieh Ranch is back and is having their own

“Kick-Off Saturday” to start their

LARRY G. MARSHALL

2015 PRIVATE TREATY BULL SALE

120 E. 2nd Street Dexter, NM 88230

Saturday, March 28 at the Ranch in Model

1 Grand Ave. Plaza Roswell, NM 575/734-5415

(28 miles NE of Trinidad, Colorado. Call or email for directions)

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SCHEDULE: 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. — View the Bulls Noon — Lunch 1 p.m. — Bid-Off begins

OFFERING 20 YEARLINGS & 3 FALL BULLS • All Polled & All Black, some homozygous

Insurance & investments for everyone. Call today

• Calving ease as well as performance • PAP tested

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E. PhotoBombed! Guess who? No other than Jeff Witte, NM Secretary of Agriculture with beef friends. F. Mark McCollum NM Beef Council Director informs audience about state Beef Checkoff at Joint Stockmen General Session. G. Dina Chacón-Reitzel, NMBC Executive Director, discusses the federal beef checkoff at the Opening Session.

H. 2014 Youth Ranch Management Camp Champion Team. (L-R: Logan Klump, Zach Speir, Anissa Castro, and Jose Archuleta) I. NMBC Director, Milford Denetclaw, takes a break from serving beef at Trade Show Reception. J. Beef friends get reacquainted at NMBC sponsored Trade Show Reception. K. Tamara Hurt, NMBC, dishes up Beef Skewers for NMCG member, Larry Bedford. L. David McSherry, NMBC Director, serves Beef to Trade Show Reception Texas guest.

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NMBC DIRECTORS: Bruce Davis (Producer); David McSherry (Feeder); Mark McCollum (Feeder); Milford Denetclaw (Producer); Jonathan Vander Dussen (Dairy Producer); Tamara Hurt (Producer).

FEDERATION DIRECTOR, Darrell Brown (Producer) U.S.M.E.F. DIRECTOR, David McSherry BEEF BOARD DIRECTORS, Tammy Ogilvie (Producer), Wesley Grau (Producer).

For more information contact: New Mexico Beef Council, Dina Chacón-Reitzel, Executive Director 1209 Mountain Rd. Pl. NE, Suite C, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505/841-9407 • 505/841-9409 fax • www.nmbeef.com

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My Cowboy Heroes

by JIM OLSON

Bobbi Jeen “To Own a Trading Post” OLSON

his is a true story. A story about business. A story about making an investment (in people and finance). A story about helping out. A story about following your heart.

People often ask me, “How did you get into the Trading Post business?”

First, a little history. Back in the day . . .

For about eighteen years, I bought and sold ranches, land, agriculture and commercial properties (both as an investor and agent for others) around the state of Arizona. Between that, running a ranching operation and doing farm/ranch management, I had my hands, more than full. The saying, “Running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off,” comes to mind.

I had many ups and downs along the way, but after many years of hard work, it seemed like financial security could finally be realized. The dream of all Americans— so they say.

Then, in 2007 through ’09, I was loosing money. A lot of money. After believing I finally had it made, the “great recession” just about broke me! It was a little disheartening to think I had worked so hard all those years only to wind up basically in the same place I was before.

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was looking for something else to do. I was tired of chasing my tail (so it seemed) and felt a new venture was needed. After all, I originally got into real estate with a threeyear plan to get rich, then get out and go do something I wanted in life (yeah right!).

What would I do now? Here it was, eighteen years later and I certainly was not rich—and I did not feel like I was doing what I wanted. It was more like, “doing what was required,” (which was fine when money was rolling in—but not so much now).

About this same time, we had an old Trading Post listed for sale through the Real Estate company. It belonged to some friends who were selling due to health issues. Then the husband passed away. The poor old lady was left running it all on her own, and her in bad need of a kidney transplant.

Then, two things happened at about the same time. First off, two of the Real Estate agents approached me about buying the company. Looking back on it now, that was a blessing in disguise (and perfect timing).

Then, as I was wondering what the next step would be, fate stepped in.

The lady who owned the Trading Post called me one day and said she was going

to shut the business down. With her husband gone, it was just too much for her to handle. I asked her what her plans were and she said that since we had not seen any interest from “Bonafied Buyers,” she was just going to put the inventory into storage and close the doors (what a shame since the business traces its roots back to 1877). She felt like she was at the end of her rope. Without even thinking twice, I offered to help.

My first thought was that I hated to see her walk away and close the doors. I knew we would never find a Buyer that-a-way.

However, if it came to it, I would pull up there with my horse trailer, a couple of workmen, and help haul the the stuff to storage myself. I told her as much.

After a bit of conversation, Ms. Linda (the lady owner), inquired if I may want to buy it myself. It got me to thinking. I felt a strong voice within saying this would be the right thing to do, a better way to help out. That is the background, now here is the real story…

I have always been a person looking for opportunity. Not just financial opportunity, but the chance to help someone out when needed. So when offered a chance to buy a Trading Post, my thoughts were: It looked like it could make a little money. While I had no plan of going into retail on a full-time basis, I saw an opportunity in just liquidating the inventory over about a year to year-and-a-half or so.

Then there was a chance to help out a couple of ladies (both in need of a helping hand right about then). Not only would it help out Ms. Linda (who desperately needed to go take care of her health) but my Mother-in-law also could be helped out here.

Ms. Betty, (my Mother-in-law) had been involved with Trading Posts in the past.

She was very knowledgeable about the business, and, it just so happened she was searching for work at this time (with little success).

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make a little money while we were at it.

That seemed like a perfect scenario to me and I kept feeling this strong urge to go for it.

We made a deal with Ms. Linda to purchase the store and a deal with Ms. Betty to run it (as a full partner).

So now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in the Trading Post business as a family. It fell together as if it was meant to be, so we went at it without hesitation. Then, within a few weeks, things started happening that give me the chills when I think back on it.

About three weeks after taking over the Trading Post, Ms. Linda called me, crying on the phone. I asked what was wrong and she said she had gotten a phone call. They wanted her to come down for a kidney transplant in two days! I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great news!â&#x20AC;?

Then Ms. Linda told me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This would not be happening if you guys had not bought the store. You see, when you agreed to buy the business, I finally went down and finished filling out the paperwork to get on that transplant list.â&#x20AC;?

I told her that was super! I also commented she sure didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to wait long.

(She had told me before the wait was three to five years for most people.) She was sure surprised when they called her after only being officially on the list about three weeks. As it turned out, it was kind of a miracle they had a donor already and she was the only perfect match available on short notice.

So Ms. Linda had her kidney transplant and was supposed to be in the hospital for a week. On the fifth day, I called to see if I

could stop and visit. She said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;That would be fine, except I am out driving around looking for Mexican food.â&#x20AC;? She was feeling (and doing) so well they released her early!

After her first checkup, she called again and began to cry. I asked if everything was okay and she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want to thank you. If you guys had not taken over the business when you did, I would not have a new kidney today. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;higher powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; were at work here.â&#x20AC;?

The timing was perfect. Once we took over, Ms. Linda went and did the rest of her paperwork. Then, the almost impossible happened when she got a new kidney three weeks later. Then her body accepted the new kidney without a problem. Her doctor told her he had never seen a transplant go so smoothly. Normally there is at least a little â&#x20AC;&#x153;rejectionâ&#x20AC;? of a new kidney. Ms. Linda said the doctor told her she had basically won the equivalent of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Medical Lottery!â&#x20AC;? The chances of all of those things lining up like they did in such a short time for her were a million to one!

Back at the Trading Post, we were busy in liquidation mode. We sold a lot of inventory at bargain prices and things were going well. Ms. Betty was happy with her

new position and we were quickly getting back our initial investment. After several months, we got together to reevaluate our business plan.

My wife and I were actually having fun with the business as well. What started out a purely an investment to make a few dollars and help out a couple of ladies, was now turning into something else.

I have always been an aficionado and collector of Western things. We had already taken several things from the store and put in our collection at home, which was a nice bonus. We enjoyed very much the type of product line we carried.

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We decided to stay with the business.

Now we had to change gears. We went from business liquidation mode to growth and expansion mode. We had to undo a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fire sellingâ&#x20AC;? and start to rebuild inventory.

We looked around and found the perfect building right next door for sale at a great price (we were renting where we were at). So we bought the building and everything went very smoothly for a commercial real estate transaction.

Then, other opportunities for rebuilding the inventory came along, at what seemed like perfect timing. Every time we had a few extra dollars, good deals would be presented to us it seemed. Things fell into place like the were â&#x20AC;&#x153;meant to be.â&#x20AC;?

The last few years we have continually grown and expanded the business. Exciting things are happening. We all work together as a family. Each of us does different things we enjoy in the business. And, we now get to help out hundreds of people each year (by buying their products or goods when they need it). We also help buyers find quality products at decent prices and provide many community services through the business.

Lord knows what the future holds.

Each time I think about this little story it reminds me of old sayings like: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Follow your heart.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;By helping others, you help yourself at the same time.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trust the inner voice insideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your Maker guiding you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do something you love and things will work out.â&#x20AC;? And a hundred other â&#x2013; inspirational adages.

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Scott Shackford of Reason Magazine reports on one such example of a small business struggling to survive in the Golden State. In Castro Valley, California, a man named Bill Smyth owns the Westover Winery with his wife. It’s a tiny business that is open for just 10 hours each week and takes in only $11,000 in annual profits. For help, Smyth takes volunteers, whom Shackford says were sort of like interns – many of them were learning to make wine and volunteered at Westover as a learning experience.

Unfortunately, the state did not see it the same way: California prohibits forprofit businesses from using volunteer labor, and the state charged Mr. Smyth $115,000 for the violation – an amount it would take his business 10 years to amass in profits.

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150 Head Ranch, Near Willcox, AZ – +/- 2,976 deeded acres, and State Grazing Leases. One bedroom home, corrals, well, and electric at headquarters. Well watered w/about 16.5 miles of new pipeline & 11 storage tanks & drinkers, 8 dirt tanks. Good year round spring. Great country. Good mix of browse & grass $1,950,000.

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6 corrals, 13 stock tanks, 6 steel tanks, 9 wells. 9 acre feet of water rights from a spring to deeded, home, restaurant, shop, barns, corrals. $1,100,000 52 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Ranch, pristine & private, only 12 miles from I-10.

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Virden, NM +/-78 Acre Farm, with 49+ acres of irrigation rights.

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128+/- Acre Farm near Duncan, AZ – Two properties combined, +/- 45 acres farmable. Terraced farm fields, shared well, 12” irrigation pipe with alfalfa valves, recently leveled. 29+/Acres for $80,800,+/- 99 Acres for $195,000. All for $275,800.

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NEW MEXICO RANCHES FOR SALE High Chaparral Ranch ~ Grant County, Silver City ~ Working ranch with good proximity to El Paso and Tucson. 21,595 acres expanding across the Langford Mountains providing a diverse healthy climate with plentiful grass, sunshine, and a beautiful landscape. 7,760 deeded acres, 11,275 assured state lease acres, and 2,560 BLM acres. Mule deer, antelope, javalina, and quail. Architecturally similar improvements include an executive residence, guest house, in-ground pool, and managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence. Reasonably price at $4,000,000.

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Antelope Springs Ranch ~ Lincoln County, Carrizozo ~ 1,240 deeded acres within the scenic Carrizozo Basin nearby Ruidoso. Beautiful mountain viewscape, at 5,000 ft. elevation. A pleasant, mild, healthy climate. Mule deer, antelope, and livestock rangeland. $675 per are.

Alamo Canyon Ranch ~ Lincoln County, Tinnie ~ 2,300 deeded acre mountain foothills ranch located outside Ruidoso. This is a large block of deeded land located in an area where acreage is seldom offered for sale. Great mule deer and Barbary sheep hunting. $500 per acre.

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Anton Chico â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Historic 65 acre irrigated farm w/ditch rights. Has adobe home, bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & some farm equipment go w/sale.

Priced below appraisal at $698,900 & Owner can finance!

La Loma (near Dilia) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12.8 acre farm has 2,400 s.f. 3 bedroom home, barns, corrals, and equipment and storage buildings. Improvements are in good condition, water rights go with sale. Alfalfa is the cash crop! Anton Chico residents only! Price is $248,900 Dilia Loop Road â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fenced 20+ acre parcel is planted in alfalfa & grass, has 4 irrigated sections plus ditch rights and Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens. Price is $231,500 Upper Anton Chico â&#x20AC;&#x201C; This parcel has outstanding alfalfa production for a small parcel, 7.5 acres are irrigated with under ground pipes, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Makes 375 bales per cutting! Asking $82,500 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Come see this money maker!

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KEN AHLER REAL ESTATE CO., INC. 1435 S. St. Francis Drive, Suite 210, Santa Fe, NM 87505

C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty

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Stockton Pass: Beautiful SE AZ Ranch North of Willcox, Mountain Ranch 145 head AU, Deeded Surrounded by forest.

Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane

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Red Top Ranch: 3,800 deeded acres in SE AZ. Priced at $197 per deeded acre. Walter Lane Wildhorse Basin Ranch: Yavapai county, 864 deeded, 6701 State Lease, $3,900,000. Con Englehorn

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Crooked H: Central AZ, 126 Sections, 450 head Winter Range/664 summer Range. $2,375,000. Traegen Knight Lazy EH: Western AZ, 122.5 deeded, 300,000 BLM/State Lease, 17,486 AUM ephemeral/500 AU yearlong. 18 wells, 4 pumps on CAP Canal. $600,000. Con Englehorn Tres Alamos Ranch/Farm, Benson AZ: 668 acres deeded W/200 irrigated, shallow water, 3 Pivots, present owners running 200 head yearlong. Priced at $2,500,000. Walter Lane Liberty Ranch: 1917 Deeded aces in SE Arizona. $950,000.

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Turkey Creek Ranch: Yavapai Co, 130 AU winter permit Oct. through March on the Prescott Nat. Forest, base land is 59.32 acres in the Bradshaw Mtns at 5,800â&#x20AC;&#x2122; that would make a pleasant getaway from the Metro areas. $605,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Groseta

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Miami Horse Training Facility.

Ideal horse training facility w/large 4 bedroom 3 bathroom approx 3,593 sq ft home, 248.32Âą deeded acres, 208 irrigation shares, 30' X 60' metal sided shop/ bunkhouse, 8 stall barn w/tack room, 7 stall barn w/storage, 10 stall open sided barn w/10 ft alley, 2 stall loafing shed, 14 11' x 24' Run-In Shelters, 135' Round Pen, Priefert six horse panel walker. Many more features & improvements. All you need for a serious horse operation in serious horse country of Miami New Mexico.

Additional 150 acres available on south side of road. Miami is at the perfect year round horse training elevation of 6,200. Far enough south to have mostly mild winters. Convenient to I-25. $1,550,000.

Miami Horse Heaven. Very private approx. 4,800 sq. ft. double-walled adobe 4 bed., 3 bath home w/many custom features, 77.5Âą deeded acres & 77.25Âą water shares, large 7 stall horse barn, large insulated metal shop, large haybarn/equipment shed, all for $1,650,000, plus an additional 160+/-

deeded acres w/142 water shares avail. $560,000 (subject to purchase of 77.5Âą deeded acre parcel.)

Krause Ranch. 939.37 +/- deeded acres. 88 Springer Ditch Company water shares. Mostly west of I;25, exit 414. Big views. $725,000.

Miami Mountain View. 80Âą deeded acres w/80 water shares & house. $550,000.

Miami. 10Âą deeded acres, awesome home, total remodel, awesome views $295,000.

Miami WOW. Big home in Santa Fe Style great for family on 3 acres. $274,900.

Miami Tangle Foot. 10.02Âą deeded acres w/water shares & meter. $118,000.

Maxwell. 19.5Âą deeded acres, water, outbuildings, great horse set up. $269,000.

Canadian River. 39.088Âą deeded acres, w/nice ranch home & river. $279,000.

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Little Cayuse Ranch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Check out this ranch operation north of Corona. +- 2,025 acres and is a horse, cow calf or yearling operation. There are 2 homes, hay barn, sheds, tack room, 3 excellent wells, 4 pastures & 80 acre irrigation pivot with water rights. Good fences & views. Priced reduced, call for details!

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â&#x20AC;˘ Country Estate located east of Roswell, NM on 11 acres with 4.5 acres of water rights. 4,400+ square foot in main residence, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths with pool, 1,000 square quest house, livestock facilities and pipe fencing. â&#x20AC;˘ Views come with this home located west of Roswell on 5 acres. Almost 3,200 square feet in this two story home with three bedrooms, three and one-half baths. 40 x 60 Shop, 45 by 45 Horse Barn and Pipe Roping Arena.

Cherri Michelet Snyder Qualifying Broker

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â&#x20AC;˘ Mountain Retreat â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 644.7 Acres North of Capitan, NM. Paved Frontage, 1BR/1BA log cabin, Neighbors Lincoln National Forest $1,400,000 â&#x20AC;˘ Mountain Home â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on 320 Acres Capitan,NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5BR/3 ½ BA luxury home with fabulous views, horse barn, 40x50 metal barn, elk permit, neighbors forest $3,295,000 â&#x20AC;˘ 192.17 Acres Tijeras, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Perfect acreage for a sprawling estate in the East mountain area or ready for residential development. Paved on 2 sides,electric & water available. $13,000/acre â&#x20AC;˘ 1052 Acres White Oaks, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; This Baxter Mountain acreage is where prospectors first discovered gold in 1879 in the White Oaks Mining District of Lincoln County and includes 35 wholly owned mining claims, 3 water wells with 1887 priority water rights $3,500,000 â&#x20AC;˘ 59 acres Rio Bonito River Frontage, Lincoln NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mostly level acreage near Historic Lincoln, enjoy the sound of the Rio Bonito, nice views $265,500 102

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â&#x2013; ARMSTRONG CO. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on pvmt., 22 minutes from downtown Amarillo, Texas - 2,476.65 +/- ac. of irr. prime farmland highly improved w/beautiful custom built home, huge state-of-the-art barn/shop, w/irrigation wells & pivots. This is a showplace property in a very productive farming area. â&#x2013; DO YOU REALLY WANT A MINI RANCH IN THE COUNTRY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Amarillo, TX., 640 ac. +/- of rough, rugged, very scenic ranchland w/cute cabin, domestic well w/sub. electric motor & pump w/pond. â&#x2013; WOLF CREEK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lipscomb Co., TX. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 716.67 ac. +/- of scenic, rugged grassland on all-weather road, w/domestic well powered by windmill. â&#x2013; JUST LISTED â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Please call for details on super nice combination hunting/recreational/cattle 20 section Colorado deeded ranch w/excellent hunting, river frontage, excellent livestock & game watering facilities for a year-round grama grass operation, on pvmt. â&#x2013; MINERALS - NEW MEXICO ALL DEEDED RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; approx.

53 sections, river frontage w/vegas (meadows), a very good yearround ranch w/good improvements & all weather access. â&#x2013; CAPITAN, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Minutes from Ruidoso. A multi-purpose property w/15.6434 ac. +/-, laboratory/office, covered pens, home.

Ideal for use for horse or cattle breeding, embryo transfer facility, vet clinic or many other uses in a beautiful area of NM. â&#x2013; FRESH AIR & MOUNTAIN SCENERY! yearling or cow/calf country - amazing improvements, 9,200 ac. +/- deeded, 193 ac. +/- state lease, I-25 frontage on the west, Hwy. 56 on the north, Springer, NM. â&#x2013; GREAT LOCATION â&#x20AC;&#x201C; East Edge Of Santa Rosa, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hwy. frontage on both sides of I40, hwy. frontage on both sides of Hwy. 156 & hwy. frontage on Hwy. 84, 12,718.06 ac. +/- deeded, 640 ac. +/- state lease, well improved, excellent water system provided by a large spring at the headquarters, wells equipped w/subs & windmills providing water for an extensive pipeline, cow/calf, yearling country. â&#x2013; YOU CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T IMAGINE HOW NICE THIS RANCH IS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DeBaca/Guadalupe, Co., NM - 9,385.81 ac. +/-, excellent improvements, fences, watered, cow/calf yearling country in excellent condition, on pvmt. â&#x2013; JUST OUT OF CLAYTON, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tract#1 - 15 ac. +/- w/a nice 2 story home & roping arena. Tract#2 - section w/bunk house or small home for couple or a bachelor pad (nice/new), state-of-theart horse training facilities together with roping/cutting arena, horse stalls & runs.TTract #3 - 2,030 ac. +/- ranch which is well watered & w/a nice brick home. These properties all adjoin and can be purchased separately or together! â&#x2013; CIMARRON RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; COLFAX CO., NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1,854 ac. +/-, 5 pivots, ditch water rights, elk hunting, on pvmt. â&#x2013; OWNER LOOKING IN A DIFFERENT AREA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MOTIVATED TO SELL! Cimarron Co., OK - 1382 ac. +/- native grass northwest of Dalhart, Texas, large draw through south part of property affords good hunting & winter protection for livestock & wildlife, watered by a mill & a sub, steel pens, irr. potential on north portion. PRICE REDUCED! â&#x2013; BUY ONE PASTURE OR ALL (pastures run in size fr. 7-900 ac. each up to 3,300 ac. w/lake) pick the size of ranch that you want w/a total of 10,432 ac. +/-. Motley Co., TX. ranchland w/a large, permitted dam providing a huge, beautiful lake w/water backed up in a number of smaller canyons for boating, fishing & other recreation together w/good hunting on the ranch. On pvmt.! â&#x2013; SINCERE CREEK RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PONTOTOC CO., OK. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 779.02 ac. +/-, pvmt. on four sides, on rural water, brick home w/large set of steel pens, w/excellent improvements & location. â&#x2013; ADA OK. AREA â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3,120 ac. +/- of choice grassland w/houses, barns & steel pens, lays in 3 tracts, will divide!

Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice NM ranches (large & small), choice ranches in the high rainfall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP & commercial properties. We need your listings on any types of ag properties in TX., NM, OK or CO.

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Southwest New Mexico Farms & Ranches 70 acre farm located in Garfield, NM. Combination of +/-12 acres of alfalfa, +/16.5 acres of pecans and +/- 41 acres vacant ground, irrigation well, (house and outbuildings currently rented). Directions: I-25 north to Garfield exit â&#x20AC;&#x201C; West to first stop sign â&#x20AC;&#x201C; turn left â&#x20AC;&#x201C; farm on SE corner. $375,000 27.50 Acre Farm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Consists of 3 tracts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8 Acres, 8 Acres, & 11.5 Acres â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will sell separately. Full EBID & shared irrigation well.

Community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property.

Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Take Highway 28 south to San Miguel, east or left on Highway 192, first right or south on Las Colmenas, then left or east on Camunez to end of pavement.

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SPLIT ROCK RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paradise AZ, 6000+/- Deeded acres, Ranch House, fallow farm, 202 head year long on Deeded, State, USFS and BLM leases. Asking $3,631,000 BUCKHORN RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SE AZ, 350 head ranch spread over 19,000 acres with 2,163 Deeded acres, plus State, BLM & Forest. The ranch is found in one of Southeast Arizona's prime ranching valleys with picturesque setting & steeped in very old history. Asking $2,500,000 P RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Safford, AZ, a beautiful 215 head ranch. 160 acres Deeded, plus State, BLM and USFS grazing.

A functioning ranch with comfort the ranch boasts a modern headquarters, a lot of new waters, great views, all located close to town. The purchase price now includes 150 head of Brangus cows! Asking $1,750,000 LA CIENEGA RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NW AZ, 500 head ranch, AZ State land, BLM & adverse plus ephemeral increases, remodeled headquarters, home & bunkhouse, airstrip. Great Price Per AUM! Asking $1,295,000 BELOAT RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Goodyear, AZ, Nice, highly improved Desert Ranch with a HQ on State land. Rated at 300 head year-long on State and BLM grazing leases. Motivated Seller! Asking $599,000 CK HOME RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tonopah, AZ, 21 Deeded acres, 54 head yearlong, plus ephemeral increases, State and BLM leases. This is a good ranch sold with a nice large manufactured home! Asking $295,000 CK RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tonopah, AZ, 50 Deeded acres, 235 head yearlong, plus ephemeral increases, State and BLM leases. This is a good ranch priced at under $1700 per AU! Asking $399,000 DESERT RANCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Gila Bend, AZ, 55 head yearlong permit plus increases in wet winters. Good desert ranch.

31 Sections +/- of BLM & 6 Sections of State, no Deeded. Asking $75,000 we are We have qualified buyers &Please seeking ranches for them. & consider Stronghold to list SELL your ranch.

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Charlotte Allyne Jane Garnett Pearce, 89, Lubbock, passed away on December 4, 2014. Jane was born to Ed and Alma Garnett in Lynn County, Texas on February 21, 1925. She married the late Melvin Marcus Pearce, O’Donnell, Texas, on June 10, 1942. They had six children, five boys and one girl. Jane was raised near Draw and O’Donnell. Jane and Melvin resided in Hobbs for 35 years; they then made their home in College Station, and most recently Jane lived at Carillon LifeCare Community in Lubbock. Jane and Melvin were active volunteer adult leaders with their children in 4-H. In 1965 at 40 years of age, she earned dual degrees at Eastern New Mexico University and her master’s degree from Texas Tech University. She began teaching at New Mexico Junior College (NMJC) then later became a guidance counselor at NMJC. As an educator, she encouraged countless people to pursue a college degree to prepare them for job opportunities that may have eluded them before. Jane conducted classes for young women who needed guidance in advancing themselves in life. Jane was led by the Holy Spirit in her spiritual walk. She never wavered. She not only professed her faith, she lived her life in such a way that all who knew her could see Christ living in her.

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children; and 13 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by sisters, Venita Garnett, Liberty, Mississippi, Evelyn Chenault, Lubbock, and Wilma O’Briant, Wichita Falls; and brothers, Edwin Garnett, Vernon, Texas, Donald Garnett, Lubbock, and Dennis Garnett, Lubbock.

Howard Olin Boss, 94, Ada, Oklahoma, died November 16, 2014 in Oklahoma City.

He was born February 19, 1920 in Douglas, Arizona to Robert Olin and Mary Leona Yates Boss. He graduated from high school in Douglas and continued to work on the family ranch after graduation.

Howard married Nancy Jean Matlock on May 18, 1954. In 1956, they purchased a ranch on the west side of the Huachuca Mountains. In 1994, Howard and Nancy moved to Ada, Oklahoma, where he continued ranching until his passing. Howard loved his family, friends, and the outdoors.

His family made him the happiest and he loved the Lord. His most memorable times were gathering cows off the mountains with a good horse, cow dog, and calf prices at a dollar a pound. Howard was a cowman’s cowman. Howard is survived by his wife, Nancy Boss; sister Gwen Boss, Douglas; daughter Maryelena Salge (husband, David), and son Art Boss (wife, Debra) all of Roff, Oklahoma; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Verona Gaynell Vaughn, 64, Edgewood, passed away on December 20, 2014 at her home. She was born in Tucumcari on November 11, 1950 to K.P. and Florence Garnett. She attended Fort Sumner High School and went to New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She taught elementary school in Farwell, Texas from 1981 to 1990, and then taught in the Moriarty School system until retirement in 2009.

She married Lonnie Vaughn on December 22, 1989. After her retirement, she and Lonnie enjoyed breeding, training and racing horses. She was a member of New Mexico Horse Breeders and has touched many lives all over New Mexico. She is survived by her husband Lonnie, sons Tuck Traynor and Landon Vaughn, parents K.P and Florence Garnett and sister Sandra Garnett Tatom.

José Guadalupe “Lupe” Garcia, 71, Las Cruces, passed away on December 19, 2014 at Memorial Medical Center surrounded by his loving family from complications of double pneumonia. He was born October 23, 1943 in Mesilla Park to Guadalupe A. and Esperanza Lopez Garcia.

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Garcia-Morales; brother, Gilbert Garcia (wife, Virginia) all of Las Cruces. Other survivors include four grandchildren as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Sam King, 92, Stanley, passed away on November 26, 2014 at the Beehive Home in Edgewood. Sam was born in Stanley to Will and Molly King, on August 4, 1922, just a few years after they homesteaded in the Estancia Valley in 1917. In 1932 he started dry land farming and walked behind a horse to plow the land. Sam graduated in the Stanley High School Class of 1941 along with his high school sweetheart Margaret Lacy. They married in October of 1941. When the US entered World War II, Sam continued farming to help the war effort and delivered milk to the Japanese Internment Camp outside of Santa Fe. Sam, his father Will, and his brothers Bruce and Don, grew pinto beans on their dry land farm. Sam and Margaret attended Stanley Union Church where he was Sunday School Superintendent and Church Board President and she played the piano and taught Sunday School. Sam and Margaret raised four children who all graduated from Moriarty High School.

Sam served the community in many capacities. He attained the rank of Eagle Scout and went on to become a Boy Scout Leader. Later, Sam served on the Stanley and Moriarty School Board for over 35 years. He also served for five decades with the Edgewood Soil and Water Conservation District. Sam was a member of the New Mexico Amigos, enjoying many trips around the country with them. Sam was a member of the Rotary Club in Moriarty and was recognized and honored as a Paul Harris Fellow. In 1985, a few years after the loss of his first wife, Sam married Che Sun Kim. Survivors include wife Che Sun Kim King, sister Leota and husband, Montana, brother Don King (wife, Dorothy), Stanley, son David Will King (wife, Marty), daughter Wanda Fishburn (husband, Mike), son Sam Lester King (wife, Erin); seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchilcontinued on page 109

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dren; Che Sun’s daughters Teresa Rembe (husband, Matt) and Lisa Houser (husband, Ken) and Che Sun’s three grandchildren. Sam also had many nephews, nieces, and great-nephews and nieces. The family wishes to thank the many caregivers who drove to Stanley to help Sam and Che Sun and the caregivers at the Beehive in Edgewood. Their kindness will always be remembered.

Gerald Levi Gutierrez, 39, Magdalena, passed away on November 28, 2014. He was was born on September 23,1975. Gerald was a very gentle, kind, loving soul and a brilliant person. He was a great son, loving brother, uncle, nephew and friend to many. He is survived by his parents, S.E., Jr. and Lucille Gutierrez, Magdalena, sisters Lynette Gutierrez and Julie Gutierrez, both of Albuquerque, brothers Paul Gutierrez, Washington, D.C., and Carl Gutierrez, Billings, Montana, daughter April Martinez, Magdalena and niece Crystall Herrera, Mike, Brandon, Isabella, Destiny Herrera, all of Albuquerque. He is also survived by numerous loving aunts, uncles and cousins.

New Mexico state Rep. Phillip Archuleta, 65, Las Cruces, passed away on December 16, 2014 surrounded by loved ones after complications from pneumonia.

He was born on May 12, 1949 in Taos to Faustin and Clorinda Archuleta. A retired state government employee, was elected to the Legislature in 2012 to represent House District 36, which stretches southward from just north of Hatch into Las Cruces.

He is survived by his wife, Diana and children: Tracy, Vicky, Joseph, and Sasha.

Grandchildren: Dominick, Matthew, Marisol, and Nalani. Also sisters: Dolores (Ernesto), Temia, Irma and brother Faustin (Ramona); along with many nieces and nephews.

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A Plan for the Future s an organization we’ve been very successful. We’ve grown our membership, grown leaders on the local and state level, and grown our presence in policy-making circles to the point that law-makers recognize what New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau stands for. The agriculture industry and the world we live in is changing and it always has been, but it is important that we recognize that change and develop ways to adapt. In recognition of that change and in order to continue growing, the State Board recently began the steps to create a 5-year strategic plan.

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The board reviewed it and came together at the Annual Meeting and outlined a strategic plan for the organization.

The board looked at the organization as a whole and completed a SWOT analysis.

Being able to recognize those strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats we are able to define areas where we can grow our strengths, improve on our weaknesses, seize opportunities and address the threats.

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s we embark on a new year, there is much to be positive about. Cattle prices are reaching new highs on an almost weekly basis. With the promise of moisture in the weeks and months to come, many are retaining heifers so the rebuild of the cow herd may be beginning.

A growing cow herd will begin to bring prices down but it will be years before cow numbers are back to pre-drought levels.

But that is assuming that the drought is over. Most places had good rains in the past several months. Hoping we will get the snow needed for a good spring and the rains will carry through to next summer. If they don’t, those heifers held over the winter will be for sale pretty quickly.

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chickens, to control of every drop of water in the country and more. Undoubtedly agriculture will survive but it is going to take everyone pulling together. We are well known for circling the wagons, aiming our guns . . . and firing inward.

Rachel Thomas has long used the motto “Imagine what we can get done if no one cares who gets the credit” or something close to that. It is my hope that we can all embrace that thought and take the fight to our detractors.

We can no longer take on these issues a piece at a time. We must have a greater vision and find the funding to step back and take a global approach to the federal overreach that has been eating us alive.

There are those among us who have that vision. Now all we need is the funding. If you’d like to be a part of the solution,

provides cyclical rains and droughts . . . and more years of drought than rain. It is tempting to go into the whole global warming/climate change debate but I will resist. Suffice it to say that I have lived through several severe droughts when I watched Daddy, Uncle Bill and Granddaddy struggle to keep feed and water in front of the cattle and to weather the physical, mental and emotional toll that kind of stress takes on men. There are still pictures in the family of the shipping pens in Douglas when Cochise County ranchers shipped their herds to Mexico to save the genetics.

If markets and weather were all ranchers needed to worry about, we would be sitting pretty. Not so much.

The pressures are many ranging from wolves and snakes, to mice and prairie

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However, executing the vision must be a unified effort. There is plenty of work and credit to go around. Power and respect are gained with quiet leadership for the good of all.

Over 40,000 Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, according to a Saturday morning kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; television show, there are over 40,000 careers for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth to chose from . . . and the television show is going to help your kids figure out what they want to be when they grow up. The kids donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what a luxury all of these choices are. The producers of the show probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know either.

If it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for natural resource users turning the land and its bounties into food, clothing, shelter and energy for the country, Everyone would have only careers in these areas to choose from. And, depending on where you live and what your parents and grandparents do, the choices would be more limited than even these four areas. Hunting wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a recreational activity but one necessary for survival. Youth wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be going to institutions of higher education to learn to do their jobs better, they would be doing the job.

But aside from the obvious, at least to the less than 1.5 percent of folks involved in agriculture, there is a more dire message in what children decide to be. As BEEF magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amanda Radke writes: Folks under 35 years of age and involved in production agriculture certainly are a minority category â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one that is quickly growing smaller, according to a recent report published in the Society of Range Managementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (SRM) publication, Rangelands.

After evaluating 90 years of census data, the report concludes there will be no operators younger than 35 by 2033, and the average age of the rancher will be 60 years old by 2050. The average of New Mexico ranchers is already at 60.5 years and is among the highest in the nation.

Here are excerpts from the SRM report: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The authors of the Rangelands article focused on the High Plains, specifically Wyoming, which still holds large tracts of working land. They reviewed decades of U.S. Census data, sorting it into classes based on worker age. They then mapped the results to pinpoint both state- and

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“They found that more than half of today’s farm operators are older than 55.

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Unfortunately, while the cattle business offers the opportunity to reap big rewards, it also comes with huge financial risk.

Having the capital, the land and the fortitude to get established in this business is an extremely difficult task without a very strong foundation and an excellent transition plan in place for the next generation.

While this report is disturbing, Radke believes there will still be opportunities for young people to get into production agriculture. With that in mind, the typical definition of what makes a farmer or rancher might look a lot different by 2033. Young people will find new, creative ways to diversify. Off-farm incomes will be critical to maintain cash flow. Online, at-home businesses will become more of a mainstay.

One of Radke’s readers believes government involvement in programs such as CRP have allowed an aging farming/ranching population to continue to create revenue off of land that would normally be used for production agriculture. Many of these acres lay vacant with fences unmanaged and unkempt. If these acres were leased to the government and could be subleased back to young producers that could be a start. He knows several young producers who want in but pasture availability and capital outlay are the largest concerns in his area.

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There are already some 175 bills prefiled. There is no doubt that some of the same old issues will be coming up like anti-trapping and no coyote calling contests. There will be several bills brought forth by the agriculture community. There will be another run at Right to Farm language, some efforts to address the federal endangered species protection, some protection for water rights in the face of federal water grabs, and we will again try to shed light on the New Mexico State Fair.

Bills are expected to address the April 2014 Attorney General’s opinion on trespass on streambeds, both pro and con.

If you take a look at just the pre-filed legislation you are sure to find something of interest to everybody. The state song issue will even come back up with a bill to declare a State Children’s Song.

For those who cannot make it to Santa Fe, there is lots of opportunity to participate in the public process. The internet has made it possible to watch and/or listen to floor session and committee meetings and to read legislation and offer assistance from home.

The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) is once again looking for bill readers to read 10 out of every 100 bills. Instructions will be provided and you can email your thoughts to those on the ground in Santa Fe. Please email us at nmcga@nmagriculture.org if you want to

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Some dates to remember during Session are the NMCGA Board of Directors meetings on February 16 and 17, the Ag Fest Reception on February 17 and the Roundhouse Feed on March 19. Remember that all NMCGA Board meetings are open to all NMCGA members. If you’d like to attend the meetings please let us know.

We cannot say often enough how important it is for your legislators to see and hear from you during the Legislature.

We can carry your message, but only you can tell your story.

Annual Animal Cruelty Update The issue of animal cruelty and the Legislature deserves its own heading.

While we haven’t seen what the anti’s have in store for this year; KRQE Television signed the beginning of the fight with its annual animal cruelty update in mid December.

The grim report was again that New Mexico ranks 48th in the nation for animal cruelty. The state has gotten one spot closer to the top of the list since 2013.

Sounds like as a whole we are pretty terrible people. Now for the rest of the story.

The rankings are created by some group’s opinion of the animal cruelty laws within each state. One such ranking contains this disclaimer in small print: The annual report is based on each state’s existing laws and does not take into account the conduct of its animal rescue groups and organizations or the conditions of its shelters. (emphasis added) It is disappointing that the media does-

n’t include that rest of the story, but you can be sure that there will be efforts to make New Mexico less cruel by passing more laws.

On death and dying When I was an aspiring writer I was told that one needed life experience to be a real writer, especially of fiction. I think it is fair to say that I have earned that life experience tee-shirt.

As we grow older and grow our circles of friends and associates, it is inevitable that we lose more and more folks from our circle every year. Like everything else in our society, there are a number of choices we can make for ourselves about how we want to be handled when the call comes.

In my humble opinion we all are free to make our own choices, but those choices might be made in light of the folks who are left behind. I had a friend’s father who left $10,000 for a huge party in the park in San Antonio. That’s the kind of style I would like to afford to go out in.

Recently there have been some friends who have left strict instructions that they wanted no service or remembrance gathering. One didn’t even want an obituary.

Coming from one of the most giving people I have ever known, that was pretty selfish.

It took me some of that life experience to understand how important it is for friends and family to come together to cry and laugh and share memories, to have a closing point and the strength to move on.

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by JEREMY P. JACOBS, E&E NEWS he Western Watersheds Project started its fight against grazing on public lands in 1993 by brandishing briefcases stuffed with cash at public hearings on lease sales.

But the nonprofit has taken its public relations campaign against politically wired ranchers to the courts, becoming one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most litigious environmental groups.

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And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made plenty of enemies.

Ranchers call the group â&#x20AC;&#x153;public enemy No. 1.â&#x20AC;? Earlier this year, a dozen Wyoming ranchers filed a complex lawsuit that accuses the group of trespassing to take water samples. Still in its early stages, the lawsuit could stretch on for months or even years and put an enormous strain on Western Watershedsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; limited resources (Greenwire, Nov. 18).

The lawsuit catches Western Watersheds at a crossroad. Jon Marvel, its charismatic founder, stepped down from his post atop the Hailey, Idaho-based group earlier this year. He hired a new executive director, but he acknowledged the difficulty of fundraising. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The question for Western Watersheds now that Jon has stepped away is, can they continue to sustain this without his animating presence?â&#x20AC;? said Johanna Wald, a retired Natural Resources Defense Council attorney who has known Marvel for more than 20 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a unique individual, and he has done a very unique thing. It is very hard to start and sustain a nonprofit environmental organization, particularly one that is working on an issue that is as little-appreciated as the one he is working on.â&#x20AC;?

Marvel, 67, grew up in Delaware and became an activist during the environmental movement of the early 1960s after

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reading Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" when he was 15. After attending the University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree, he earned his master's in architecture from the University of Oregon.

He settled in Idaho and began working as an architect. For 20 years, he kept coming across tracts degraded by grazing cattle.

Increasingly, Marvel grew angry. He struggled in vain to force federal and state agencies to take action. And he pressed groups like NRDC to file lawsuits, but he found their response underwhelming.

So in 1993 he launched the Idaho

Watersheds Project, a three-man outfit that tried to purchase and tie up grazing leases for state lands.

In a recent interview, Marvel recalled butting heads with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;good olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rancher boy network.â&#x20AC;?

Marvel showed up at a public hearing ready to bid on a tract between Ketchum and Sun Valley by offering a briefcase packed with $5,000 in cash.

He called for the governor, attorney general and state land commissioners to look at the greenbacks they were turning away by letting the lease go back to a local rancher for less.

As he dumped the briefcase â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which was stuffed with $5 bills topped by $100s â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on the table, the crowd of about 75 cheered, he recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an excellent bit of theater,â&#x20AC;? he recalled, that â&#x20AC;&#x153;caused a lot of consternation.â&#x20AC;?

After running into roadblocks with that tactic, Marvel quickly pivoted to the law.

He looked for ways regulatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; handling of grazing was running afoul of the state constitution, National Environmental Policy Act, Federal Land Policy and Management continued on page 119

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Act, Endangered Species Act, and even the Clean Water Act. He sued and quickly earned some victories. Because of one of the group's early lawsuits, for example, it is now legal to bid on expiring state grazing leases to not graze on them.

Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt tried something similar during the Clinton administration. He issued regulations that allowed for conservation nonuse of grazing permits, but those rules were eventually vacated in court when challenged by ranchers.

‘Third-rail issue’

Marvel instilled in Western Watersheds an insurgent’s mindset.

He promotes the notion that the group is David in a death struggle against the ranchers’ Goliath.

A challenge for the nonprofit, he said, is ranchers have cultivated the notion of a lone cowboy on horseback herding cattle on the range.

That image has endured – from John Wayne movies to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s high-profile standoff earlier this year to protest the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to round up his cattle over unpaid grazing fees. Even the University of Wyoming mascot is a cowboy on his horse.

That image is a myth, Marvel said, adding that less than 3 percent of beef eaten in the United States has come from an animal that’s grazed on public lands.

Most beef, he said, comes from large farming operations.

While its contribution to U.S. food supplies is scant, grazing, he said, is the “single largest anthropogenic impact on the face of the Earth.”

He expressed frustration that larger environmental groups haven’t shown enthusiasm for the grazing fight.

“It’s always a challenge with any nonprofit to create an entity that is going to have an impact without offending too many people,” he said. “A lot of national big green organizations are pretty averse to negative publicity and actual conflict, especially in the courtroom. They are admirable in many ways, but I think they fall down out of fear of standing up for what they believe.”

Attorney Bobby McEnaney, part of NRDC’s public lands team, was complimentary of Marvel’s work, but he noted that the group focuses solely on litigation,

while NRDC tries to build political support for its efforts.

“If you win a grazing lawsuit, that can end up being nullified by Congress,” he said. “That’s happened multiple times.”

McEnaney characterized public lands grazing as a “third-rail issue” that is “embedded with political power.”

“It’s been very difficult for any environmental organization to find the magic sauce to approach this issue without inflaming our political supporters,” he said, “especially the conservative right wing.”

Ranchers return fire

As Western Watersheds found its footing, it scored victories that set valuable precedents, particularly during the George W. Bush administration.

In 2006, the group challenged rules that would have eased restrictions on grazing for 150 million acres of public lands and reduced BLM’s ability to sanction ranchers. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Western Watersheds, ruling that the regulations violated several environmental laws.

Western Watersheds has frequently filed lawsuits seeking to undercut BLM’s resource management plans and has gotten some for Idaho and Wyoming thrown out by the courts.

And last year, the group partnered with another nonprofit and two ranchers to permanently retire 130,000 acres of BLMmanaged grazing allotments that serve as habitat for bighorn sheep, sage grouse and other species.

The group now has operations – albeit in many single-activist shops – in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon and Montana.

That success raised the ire of ranchers, who view Western Watersheds as a threat to their way of life.

“If I had to say who is public enemy No. 1, it would be Western Watersheds Project,” said Jim Magagna of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association.

Magagna said Western Watersheds “really isn’t focused on what is the best way to manage the natural resource.”

“They find every tool they can to put up these challenges,” he said.

In the recent lawsuit against the nonprofit, more than a dozen Wyoming ranchers are claiming the group’s representative violated their property rights by trespassing to collect water samples as part of a campaign to force state regulators to address contamination from livestock

wastes in waterways. Western Watersheds denies all of the allegations and has moved to dismiss the lawsuit.

Magagna also questioned whether the group is as effective as it claims.

Because of its lawsuits, he said, BLM, ranchers and state authorities are falling behind in completing environmental assessments that would improve grazing plans.

“If the goal were the resource, then they would work with us to meet their goal and our goal, as well,” he said. “With Western Watersheds, there is no room for collaboration.

“It’s not about the resource, in my view.

It’s about their goal of eliminating livestock grazing.”

New executive director

Marvel has handed the reins of the organization to Travis Bruner, the new executive director.

Travis Bruner Travis Bruner has taken over as executive director of Western Watersheds Project and plans to continue playing “hardball” with ranchers and regulators. At 35, Bruner is younger than a lot of the group’s staff. He is portly and bearded and has two passions – the fight against grazing, which spurred his going to law school, and country music. He plays pedal steel guitar in several bands.

He took over as executive director in March, and three months later the lawsuit was filed by attorney Karen Budd-Falen, a property rights crusader whom Bruner calls his group’s “nemesis.”

The lawsuit is a clear message to Western Watersheds to back off, and Bruner acknowledged that it knocked him off balance.

“Western Watersheds Project has never dealt with anything like this before,” he said. “Certainly, it kept me up at night for a while there at first. It just wasn’t something I was prepared for right away.”

But Bruner said the group is confident and standing its ground against a “fruitless” lawsuit.

“I certainly feel confident in our position now,” he said.

And Bruner said his group’s goal is protecting the environmental value of Western public lands.

“That’s 250 million acres of public lands,” he said, “that are important habitat and are great places for humans to go and experience what it’s like to be in ■ nature.”

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A Lazy 6 Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . .94, 114 Ag New Mexico, FCS, ACA . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Ken Ahler Real Estate Co., Inc . . . . . . . . .101 American Angus Association . . . . . . . . . . . .29 American Galloway Breeders Association . .95 American Gelbvieh Association . . . . . . . . . .86 American Water Surveyors . . . . . . . . . . . .109 American West Wild Life Taxidermy . . . . . .44 Archery Shoppe, Mark Chavez . . . . . . . . . .54 B

Ken Babcock Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Back Country Hunts, Steve Jones . . . . . . . .56 Bale Buddy Manufacturing, Inc. . . . . . . . .108 Bar G Feedyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Bar M Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Bar T Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Beaverhead Outfitters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Beaverhead Outfitters, Jack Diamond . . . . .56 Best in the West Brangus Sale . . . . . . . . . .20 BJM Sales & Service Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Black Angus â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ready for Workâ&#x20AC;? Bull Sale . .16 Blue Mountain Outfitters, Bob Atwood . . . .57 Border Tank Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Bovine Elite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Bow K Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . .95, 122 Branch Ranch Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Brand For Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 Brennand Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96 C

C Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Capitan Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Carter Brangus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94, 116 Casey Beefmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Cattlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Livestock Commission . . . . . . .70 Caviness Packing Co., Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Don Chalmers Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Circle Seven Guided Hunts, Rick Rogers . . .57 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113 Clovis Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 Coba Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96 Chip Cole Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . . . .100 Conniff Cattle Co., LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Cox Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Crystalyx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 George Curtis, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59, 94

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Farm Credit of New Mexico . . . . . . . . . .8, 45 Farmway Feed Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 FBFS / Monte Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . .113 FBFS / Larry Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Felton Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Five States Livestock Auction . . . . . . . . . .72 4 Rivers Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Four States Ag Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Frontier Outfitting, G. T. Nunn . . . . . . . . . .49 Fury Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Major Ranch Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Manford Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73, 94 Mathers Realty Inc. / Keith Brownfield . . .102 McKenzie Land & Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Merrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Mesa Feed Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64, 104 Messner Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Michelet Homestead Realty . . . . . . . . . . .102 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . .58, 102 Monfette Construction Co. . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Motley Mill & Cube Corporation . . . . . . . . .91 Motorsport Adventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Montana Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Paul McGillard / Murney Association . . . .103

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Giant Rubber Water Tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 Grau Charolais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 94 Grau Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94 Green Valley Meats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Guidefitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 H

Hales Angus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11, 95 Harrison Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Hartzog Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . .13, 95 Haystack Mtn Outfitters, Pancho Maples . . .41 Headquarters West Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Headquarters West / Traegen Knight . . . . .97 Headquarters West Ltd. / Sam Hubbell . .100 Henard Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Hi-Pro Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Hooper Cattle Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 Hubbell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17, 94 Hudson Livestock Supplements . . . . . . . . .67 Hunt NM, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Hutchison Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

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National Animal Interest Alliance . . . . . . . .28 New Mexico Ag Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 New Mexico Angus & Hereford Bull Sale . . .3 New Mexico Beef Industry Initiative . . . . .120 New Mexico Cattle Growersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Insurance . . .121 New Mexico Council of Outfitters . . . . . . . .38 New Mexico Department of Game & Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31, 40 New Mexico FFA Foundation . . . . . . . . . . .75 New Mexico Premier Ranch Property . . . . .99 New Mexico Property Group . . . . . . . . . .102 NMSU Animal & Range Sciences . . . . . . . .76 New Mexico Wool Growers . . . . . . . . . . .109 No-Bull Enterprises LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

Roswell Brangus Bull & Female Sale . . . . . .2 Roswell Brangus Breeders Co-op (Troy Floyd) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123 Roswell Escrow Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . .12 Roswell Livestock Auction Co. . . . . . . . . . .60 S

San Augustine Water Coalition . . . . . . . . . .68 Sandia Trailer Sales & Service . . . . . . . . .104 Santa Ana Star Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Santa Rita Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Schrimsher Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . . .100 Sci-Agra Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104, 106 Scott Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 SEGA Gelbvieh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 Sidwell Farm & Ranch Realty, LLC . . . . .100 Singleton Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Southwest Red Angus Association . . . . . . .94 Stockmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Straight Shooter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Stronghold Ranch Real Estate . . . . . . . . .103 Joe Stubblefield & Associates . . . . . . . . . .100 Swihart Sales Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 T

T & S Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 TechniTrack, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Terrell Land & Livestock Co. . . . . . . . . . .103 T-Heart Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Three Mile Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Trophy Hunting Adventures / Dave Garrett .55 Tucumcari Bull Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

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Insurance Services of New Mexico . . . . . .111

Jim Olson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Olson Land and Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 One on One Adventures, Bill Lewis . . . . . .42

U Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 United Country Vista Nueva, Inc . . . . . . .101 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

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JaCin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96 J-C Angus Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boot Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 JWF Ranch Consulting, Jim Welles . . . . . . .36 K

Kaddatz Auctioneering & Farm Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Bill King Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 KUIU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

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Dan Delaney Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Denton Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114 Desert Scales & Weighing Equipment . . .105 Diamond Seven Angus . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 94 Domenici Law Firm, PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

L & H Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Laflin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94 Lasting Impression Taxidermy, Bill Bowen .41 Lazy D Ranch Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . .94 Lazy Way Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

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Perez Cattle Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Phillips Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 PolyDome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Pot Of Gold Gelbvieh Association . . . . . . . .87 Power Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Pratt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86, 95 Cattle Guards / Priddy Construction . . . . .113 Purina Animal Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 R

Red Doc Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 D.J. Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16, 104 Robertson Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation . . . . . . . .43

Virden Perma Bilt Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 W

W&W Fiberglass Tank Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 WASA Outfitters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Westall Ranches, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 96 Westwood Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Wilkinson Gelbvieh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Williams Windmill, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . .79, 104 WW - Paul Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112 Y

Yavapai Bottle Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . .104, 110 R.L. York Custom Leather . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Tal Young, P.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

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What You Need toKnow Now About Your Family’s Health Insurance FROM BOB HOMER, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance Administrators

Here are the answers to the five most asked questions I hear from New Mexico stockmen Q. I’m over 65 and have Medicare and a Medicare supplement policy, do I need to do anything?

1. No action is necessary. If you want to change your Medicare supplement plan for next year, you must make your change between October 15 and December 7, 2014.

Q. I’m under 65 and am currently covered by health insurance what are my options?

1. If you are covered by an employer group policy, no action is required unless your employer is changing the company plan or discontinuing the plan.

2. If you are under 65 and have individual (non-group) coverage for you and your family or you have your own small group plan. a. If your policy was purchased before March 2010 and you have not made changes to the policy [no increased deductible, etc], this policy is grand fathered and you can keep it as long as the insurance company keeps renewing that plan. b. Your policy was purchased after March 2010. If your policy is from Blue Cross Blue Shield or Lovelace, you can keep it until December 1, 2014. Please contact our office to select a new plan during the next open enrollment period between November 15, 2014 and February 15, 2015.

3. If you are covered under the New Mexico Cattle Growers member group policy with Blue Cross Blue Shield, your coverage will continue until August 1, 2014. Some policies can continue after that date. If you need to change your policy, our office has already contacted you.

Q. I do not have health coverage, what are my options?

1. You may sign up for health coverage during the next open enrollment period which begins on November 15 and runs through February 15, 2015, through our office, with one of the following companies: i. Blue Cross Blue Shield ii. Presbyterian iii. New Mexico Health Connections iv. Molina (only for those eligible for Medicaid)

2. How do you do it? Call our office: 1-800/286-9690 or 505/828-9690 or email me at rhomer@financialguide.com

Q. If you want to know if you & your family qualify for a government subsidy, go to www.kff.org [Kaiser Family Foundation].

Q. I do not want any coverage, what are my options?

1. Penalty for 2014 = $95 per adult and $47.50 per child or 1% of your family income, whichever is greater.

2. Penalty for 2016 = $695 per adult and $347.50 per child or 2.5% of your family income, whichever is greater.

Robert L. Homer & Associates, LLC. New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance Administrators Ask for Barb: 800/286-9690 • 505/828-9690 • Fax: 505/828-9679 IN LAS CRUCES CALL: Jack Roberts: 575/524-3144 Dependability & service to our members for over 36 years.

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Fort Sumner, NM • Aaron Cortese 575-355-2271

Las Cruces, NM • Curtis Creighton 575-523-8790

Account Manager • Portales, NM 575-760-3112

COWBOYS CORNER

OLD MILL FARM & RANCH

GARY CREIGHTON

Lovington, NM • Wayne Banks 575-396-5663

Belen, NM • Corky Morrison 505-865-5432

Cattle Specialist • Portales, NM 800-834-3198 or 575-760-5373

Contact Your Local Dealer To Contract Your Feed

Contact your local Purina Animal Nutrition Dealer or call the number listed below if you would like your local Purina Animal Nutrition Sales Specialist to contact you to learn more about Ê Ê into your Ê incorporating Accuration® Block feeding program.

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