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One of a Kind

BY LEE PITTS

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culated livestock newspaper in the country, and still had over 45,000 readers, Baxter didn’t hesitate. He could smell an opportunity better than anybody

call this what you will. I prefer to think of it as a simple story about a complex man who was a friend to everyone who wore a cowboy hat and a true genius

ake no mistake... this is not an obituary. Nor is it a eulogy or some sort of memorial. Baxter Black is still with us, and always will be in our hearts.

Yes, Baxter is still among the living but he has been delivered a cruel diagnosis of dementia and other health issues.

Baxter always said that, “An entrepreneur’s greatest asset and advantage is his mind.”

Now that is being taken away from him slowly but surely. Baxter had the most creative marketing mind of anyone I’ve ever when it comes to the written or met and it breaks my heart to spoken word. think of that mind being slowly but surely shut down. It’s like The Cowboy’s Poet Laureate mother nature is playing a cruel The year was 1983 and some prank on him, and on all of us friends and I had just purchased who adore him. the Livestock Market Digest from It’s not the end Baxter would the Livestock Marketing Assohave wanted. Both Caren Cow- ciation. As the new editor the an (publisher of the Digest) and first thing I did was call Baxter I agreed that and ask if we should we could honor and use his colAn entrepreneur’s pay tribute to umn in our our friend in revitalized greatest asset and some fashion. paper. He’d I guess my never heard advantage is his mind.” second-class of the Diwords will gest but after I told him that at have to suffice. one time it had a circulation of It is a fact of nature that 105,000 and was the largest cirnot everyone dies at their peak obituary value. And that is certainly true of victims of dementia. In my experience, usually they just fade away and when they do eventually pass a new generation, and an older one with a bad memory, does not celebrate the life of a person who really deserves more than a three-paragraph obituary. I don’t want that to happen to my good friend Baxter and so

Never take to sawin’ on a branch that’s supporting you unless you’re being hung from it.

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I’ve ever known.

I thought Baxter being in our paper would be a problem because the first person to use Baxter’s columns in 1980 was Harry Green at the old Record Stockman and the Digest and the Record Stockman were competitors. The Digest soared and then like all newspapers began a slow descent while Baxter went from being broke, out of work and recently divorced to being the greatest cowboy poet of all time with nearly 2,000 live performances under his belt.

We should say that Baxter himself gave credit to Wallace McRae of Montana for writing the best cowboy poem of all time, “Reincarnation,” but

I think Wallace and all of Baxter’s contemporaries would agree that based on the quality and quantity of his work Baxter is this country’s cowboy Poet Laureate. His column was carried in publications as diverse as The Angus Journal, Western Horseman, Delmarva Farmer and the Bakersfield Californian.

There was something for everyone every month. Usually there was one poem, a column that touched on a serious issue of the day and three funny stories, mostly about cowboy wrecks.

My wife’s personal favorite is Bentley, The Born Again Bull.

It’s about a bull calf being poorly presented at birth that came out for a brief peak at life before Baxter had to shove it back in so it could be born again the right way. My wife is still waiting for me to write something as good as that column.

In his career Baxter has written nearly three dozen books, four being published by Crown Publishing of New York City that sold 200,000 copies, and the rest by Baxter’s Coyote Cowboy Company that sold 400,000 copies. Baxter did 250 commentaries on NPR (National Public Radio) and after that he had his own nationally

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don’t know about you but I’m getting tired of all this sustainability gobbledygook. I’ll tell you what’s not sustainable:

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Throwing our borders open to welcome drug dealers, human traffickers, terrorists, violent criminals and people infected with Covid to enter the country. And then flying them in the middle of the night to towns all across America so they have to deal with all the ramifications.

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Getting rid of police and wondering why crime is up.

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Printing money so fast the circulation of dollars in the US is up 336 percent in 18 months which is causing inflation to explode while savers are paid .03 percent on their savings.

The Fed can’t raise interest rates to curb inflation because the payment on the thirty trillion in national debt would use up a sizable chunk of the federal budget.

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We’re fighting climate change with idiotic and unnecessary overregulation while allowing China, India and Russia to pollute as they please. And we’re going to war against carbon dioxide which is what breathing produces. Are we therefore going to mandate that humans be phased out by 2035?

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Depending on foreign countries for everything from our medicines to toys. We are importing 15 percent of our food supply and from 1999 to 2017 the amount of food we imported into this country tripled to $147 billion.

And allowing China to buy our biggest pork packer and two Brazilian firms, JBS and Marfrig, to buy so many American firms they now comprise two of the Big Four meatpackers only ensures that we’ll become even more dependent on foreigners for our food in the future.

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Biden-Harris Arizona Bans Use Administration of Trail Cameras Invites Public he debate over how to handle the Comment on use of trail cameras by hunters in the state of Arizona has been brewDevelopment of ing for some time. A number of meaand moves have been put into place over New Conservation sures the last several years to better manage the use of & Stewardship Tool trail cameras in the state.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PRESS RELEASE

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he Department of the Interior, in coordination with the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce and the Council on Environmental Quality, invited public comment and announced listening sessions regarding the development of the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas (Atlas), a new tool that will be used to reflect baseline information on the lands and waters that are conserved or restored.

The Atlas is part of the America the Beautiful initiative, a locally led and voluntary nationwide effort that aims to conserve, connect, and restore 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by 2030. The initiative focuses on addressing the interconnected climate and biodiversity crises, advancing environmental justice and equitable access to nature, and strengthening the economy. continued on page 4

However, a recent decision by the commission delivers a soon-coming end to the use of such cameras for scouting and hunting efforts by sportsmen.

On June 11, 2021, the Arizona Game and Fish Department Commission voted unanimously to ban trail cameras “for the purpose of taking or aiding in the take of wildlife, or locating wildlife for the purpose of taking or aiding in the take of wildlife.”

The five-member commission made the decision after months of feedback from hunters across the state, as well as around the country.

The ban went into effect on January 1, 2022.

Why Ban Trail Cams?

In a recent interview with Field & Stream, Game and Fish Commission chair, Kurt Davis, said that the use of trail cams has become increasingly problematic.

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syndicated radio show for over 25 years. He began building his own web page over 20 years ago, was doing 85 performances a year from coast to coast and also had his own three-minute TV show on RFD TV. From my ringside vantage point in his entire career Baxter had only two flops. One was AgMan, a cartoon strip for youngsters who were glued to their phones not to print media, and a short-lived newsletter. Other than that Baxter hit a home run every time. He even had two novels that he mostly wrote at night after live performances.

I could tell after Baxter spent his first night at our home after a performance that he was like most comics, singers, and athletes who worked at night. He

had a hard time coming down from the ‘high’ he got from performing. In our case that meant he sang and banged away at our piano until 2:30 in the morning when I literally had to beg that it was time to retire for the night.

Baxter had up to five people working for him (six if you count his wonderful wife and bookkeeper Cindy Lou) and they sold hundreds of thousands of videos, cassettes, DVD’s, posters, greeting cards and even monogrammed knives. Add it all up and by 2015 Baxter had sold over a million pieces of product! Not bad for a cowboy poet, eh? He was such a force of nature that no less than the New York Times said Baxter was, “Probably the nation’s most successful living poet!”

Take that Maya Angelou!

Anchors Away, My Boys I’d been a good friend of Baxter’s for a long time before I discovered three interesting bits of trivia about him. First of all, of all the places for a cowboy poet to be born guess what city Baxter was born in? Brooklyn, New York! That’s right, one of the most famous cowboys of all time was born at a Naval hospital in New York City. Secondly, Baxter’s father was the Dean of Agriculture at the New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces. And finally, if not for a hippie math teacher at NMSU who raised his grade from an F to a D minus so he could get into vet school at CSU, Baxter might have be-

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come a Navy poet. For if that fessional life he was a veterinariteacher had not agreed to raise an for Simplot. He was the comhis grade after she made Baxter pany vet in charge of developing promise he’d never set foot in a the health treatment schedule calculus or trigonometry class for 10,000 range cows, a thouagain, instead of cowboy poems sand dairy cows, and 20,000 Baxter might have been singing sheep spread over five states.

“Anchors Away My Boys” because He also was in charge of a comBaxter had already promised a pany feedstore. Many of his latNavy recruiter that if he didn’t er columns were based on the get into characters he vet school worked with the Navy at Simplot.

There never was a would be Deep down his next man quite like he ... Baxter really home. wanted to be You see, Nor will there ever be.” a songwriter Baxter had and he’d sing already been accepted to vet and play for anyone who’d lisschool but it was on the condi- ten. He’s a good piano player tion that he not fail any of his and an excellent guitar picker. mandatory classes in his final He’s written some really good quarter. He managed to squeak songs and when he and the love through his chemistry and phys- of his life, Cindy Lou, make muics classes but his math class sic together it’s like the angels proved to be a more formidable are singing. But Baxter neither challenge. had the patience or the connecOnce in vet school Baxter tions to conquer Nashville. proved to be a hard worker.

Their loss was our gain.

He’d been forced to be at a After preg checking Simplot young age because of his fa- cows and heifers all day the cowther’s premature passage. In boy crew would gather around a high school he worked at a gro- campfire and Baxter would encery store while his classmates tertain them with his guitar and were goofing around. Still, he singing. Of course, he’d also inhad time to be the FFA chap- clude one of the two dozen cowter’s President. In college Bax- boy poems he’d already written. ter also cut hair, was in a band, I think it was those fireside sesrode bulls and sold coffee to sions where Baxter honed his classmates. He was a born en- skill as an entertainer. You’d trepreneur. He’d also picked up never find a tougher crowd of the craft of leatherworking and critics than a bunch of cowboys. by the time he graduated from vet school he’d made 201 cus- A Star Was Born tom tooled cowboy belts. As a After ten years at Simplot novice leatherworker myself Baxter hit his lowest low. While Baxter always had a few tips and Baxter never told me why he suggestions on how I could im- left their employ I do know that prove my work and most of our when his Simplot replacement conversations tended to revolve dropped him off at the Boise around cows, tooling leather airport and Baxter checked his and writing we liked. I’m proud pockets to see if he’d given his that Baxter used one of my tally replacement all the company books to keep track of when he keys he didn’t find a single key. shod his horses. Our most mem- Baxter didn’t have a house key orable visit, and there were sev- because he had no house and eral, was the time Baxter helped didn’t own a vehicle to have a me feed the cows while my wife key to. He was divorced, single, drove the truck. Actually, Baxter on his way to live in a two-room didn’t help much but instead re- apartment, was deep in debt, cited poetry to the cows as I fed was paying alimony and was gothem. Even the cows seemed to ing to work for a pharmaceutical like it. company to travel the country With all his media accom- and preach to ranchers about plishments I think Baxter would all the glorious attributes of the like, first and foremost, to be drugs they made. remembered as a veterinarian.

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ONE OF A KIND In two years Baxter did 186 producer meetings, only instead of showing slides, Baxter mixed education with entertainment and once or twice during his presentation he’d recite one of his poems. After a couple years the company he worked for merged with another one and in the shuffle Baxter’s job was eliminated. One of his bosses said of Baxter, “He was a good veterinarian in many respects but he is a management nightmare.” That’s the Baxter I came to know and love! He was never meant to work for anyone else but himself and at its peak Baxter’s new company, Coyote Cowboy Company, was a beehive of activity with people sending out merchandise, booking appearances, keeping his web site current and prospecting for new business. The only other cowboy who’s made a comparable media empire and reached such heights is John Erickson of Hank The Cowdog fame. (Erickson has sold over 7.5 million books and has the longest running successful children’s series on audio.)

After he was merged out of a job Baxter had already scheduled 20 producer meetings so he made a deal with the new drug company that they’d pay him for those appearances.

And thus was born the entertainment career of the greatest cowboy poet to ever step up to a microphone. In just the first couple years Baxter sold over 10,000 books and was the speaker to get for any meeting, convention or other cowy confab.

He entertained at county fairs, the National FFA convention, The Red Bluff Bull Sale, state conventions of doctors, vets, bankers and cowboys and spoke from one end of Canada to the other. His proudest accomplishment I know was being on the Johnny Carson show six times.

They wanted him more but Baxter didn’t want to use up all his good stuff!

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boy Poetry gathering in Elko for his Tonight Show gigs. When it began in 1985 The Tonight Show caught wind of it and thought it would be entertaining so they asked the Elko organizer to supply their two best cowboy poets.

Naturally, one of them was Baxter. And a star was born!

Baxter invited my wife (who he calls Princess Di) and I to accompany him to one of those appearances. We stayed at a swanky hotel and the three of us were picked up by the Tonight Show limousine driven by a chauffeur who acted like he and Baxter were lifelong friends. Once at the studio Baxter soon found himself behind the sound stage entertaining Doc Severinsen’s band with raucous and bawdy cowboy poetry like “The Castration of the Strawberry Roan.” They roared with laughter. The Tonight Show was actually filmed at four in the afternoon and, as usual, Johnny and his 6.5 million viewers loved Baxter. After we’d been driven back to the hotel we ate dinner and then waited for the show to come on at 11:30 that night. A fairly large crowd had gathered around a TV in the lobby to watch the show and when Baxter came on they all looked at the screen and then saw Baxter and realized a star was amongst them. Naturally, because a crowd had gathered Baxter had to perform for them until the wee hours. I just wanted to hit the hay.

It seems to me that a talent like Baxter comes along once a generation. There was Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Erma Bombeck and I would put Baxter Black in that class too. So, with apologies to cowboy poets everywhere may I conclude by merely saying...

“There never was a man quite like he ... Nor will there ever be.”

Help Wanted

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retty simple right?

How could a “help wanted” ad ever be so complicated? This is a brand-new world that we live in. Do not ever expect anything to be like it used to be.

As the story goes, we needed some help here at the ranch. Most of our help has always been good, hard-working people that enjoy living here in God’s country along with the ranch work. The days can be long, but normally they are good days. Most of our hands average staying about five years at a crack.

As a matter of fact, the last girl we had left to get married, but since then, it has been a comedy of applicants and workers. The Joe Biden welfare checks for all plan during COVID hasn’t been good for employers wanting to hire. I guess it’s the downside of people not starving or having to eat macaroni for three meals a day. All of which I have done.

I realize that I’m not alone as most of my friends with small businesses are having the same hiring problem. In the past this has never been a problem and we normally had a waiting list.

FROM THE BACK SIDE

I had one young single guy apply, so I checked out his references and all seemed good. My first clue was his saddle thrown in the back of his pickup which looked like it had been run over by 12 pickups on the freeway and it was covered with bird crap.

Now I’ve seen lots of cowboys with saddles thrown in the back of a pickup. Their saddles might be worn from work, but you can tell they are kept in good usable shape.

The day of arrival came, and he showed up with a girlfriend, a pack of dogs, and the likelihood of other relatives arriving soon.

I thought I was just getting the single guy. Needless to say, he went on down the road at my request.

The next one I had that sounded promising was losing his five-year job at an outfit similar to ours because the place had sold and they were going out of business. He described his duties there, and they sounded similar to what he would do here.

As I continued to talk with him and told him that we were 20 miles from town, he asked if he would need a vehicle if he lived here. I was perplexed

and asked how he thought he would get to town without one? Then I asked how old he was and he informed me that he was 45. I wanted to know why he didn’t own a vehicle at his age. He explained that he had lost his license with a DUI marijuana charge a couple of years ago. Why would anyone want to give any responsibility to a doper? He did not even have the smarts not to tell me that. I would have found out during a background check, but still.

Last, but not least was the applicant that asked if I had room for 13 horses, he wanted to bring with him. I let him know that 13 was more horses than I would hire him for.

Why would someone seeking a job ask you to take care of their horses?

Weren’t you always taught to put your best self forward when going on a job interview? I thought everyone knew to wash their face and comb their hair. I was raised during a time when jobs were precious and you were lucky to have one, especially a good one. Perhaps jobs are losing their value?

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TRAIL CAMS of a historic 20-year drought that focuses game movement on water sources.”

“There are 3,100 water catchments in the state, the vast majority of which are on public land and all are mapped,” he said. “When people start placing and checking cameras on those limited water sources, there are going to be conflicts.”

It’s not uncommon to find waterholes with multiple trail cameras set up. In fact, in a recent podcast, Daryl Ratajczak, Wildlife Program Manager in Santa Fe, New Mexico, says that waterholes with 30+ cameras hanging around them is not uncommon in the western states that allow cameras.

So you can imagine the conflicts that arise, both from competing hunters at these sites, as well as the social media circus revolving around such use.

Other concerns that led to the vote were advancements in trail cam technology that potentially gives hunters an unfair advantage, conflict among competing hunters on public land, excessive disturbance of wildlife resulting from frequent visits to check cameras, and disturbance of livestock grazing on public lands.

Other Options?

Like other states across the west, the commission considered other options to avoid a complete ban. Options and factors such as distance restrictions, species restrictions, camera season limits, and a registration system for trail camera use were all on the table.

However, the ultimate decision came down to a full statewide ban on trail cams for scouting and hunting.

Other States with Limits on Trail Cams With the vote, Arizona joins a handful of other western states in banning or limiting the use of trail cameras for scouting big game. Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Nevada have all implemented restrictions on

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the use of trail cameras during hunting season.

Nevada’s ruling came in 2018. It prohibits trail cameras during hunting season on public land from August 1 through December 31 (cell cameras are banned from July 1 through December 3).

Will other states follow Arizona’s lead on limiting the use of trail cameras?

Nevada hunters can still use trail cameras on private land, however, with 90% of Nevada being public land, the options are few and far between.

The question is, will Arizona’s full ban push other western states to increase limitations on their regulations?

What are the Critics Saying?

Any time you have a hot topic that has considerable support on both sides, you know the thoughts, attitudes, and opinions, are sure to fly. But what is the feedback from the hunting community?

The truth is, the results are mixed. Some see the logic and reasoning behind such a decision, while others are certain it’s all a political stunt.

“I have hunted Arizona for 53 years and have never had a significant threat or was afraid for my safety over a trail cam,” says Arizona hunter, Josiah Scott.

“You say someone is going to get hurt, somebody’s going to get shot over a trail-cam and/or over social media disagreements over trail cams. That is a lie that you are perpetuating. Words are not guns.”

Despite having their fair share of critics, the commission is confident the decision will benefit hunters and wildlife in the long run.

“The ruling will ensure that we protect the quality of the experience, that we protect the wildlife itself and that they are being pursued under Fair Chase Doctrine,” Davis said. “That balance is the essential part of being on the commission and setting the rules that govern how we pursue wildlife.”

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treadmill; taking $4,575,431 from taxpayers to see what happened when alcoholic rats were sprayed with bobcat urine; wasting $36,831,620 on a study to see why hair turns gray; giving the National Institute of Health a $48,500 grant to write a history about smoking in Russia during the last 30 years; giving the DOD a $283,500 grant to study the daily lives of baby gnatcatchers because they’re threatened; squandering $65,473 of taxpayer dollars by handing it over to the National Park Service to figure out what attracts bugs to a light bulb.

What’s next, giving the USDA a million or two to find out how many federal employees it took to screw in the lightbulb?

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Getting out of the manufacturing business and becoming a “service economy” where we’ll all make a living waiting on one another while depending on foreigners for almost everything we use and need.

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Spending 20 years and $83 billion on training Afghan forces and then leaving behind American citizens along with $85 billion worth of military equipment.

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Freeing felons because the prisons are full.

Adopting a “let it burn” policy at the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Allowing 4,000 trees to grow where there should be 1,000, not allowing thinning or removal of deadfall, closing of roads, eliminating clear cuts which acted as firebreaks, and getting rid of cows and sheep to graze forest land to naturally eliminate fuel loads so that in 2020 California alone could spend $10 billion fighting forest fires.

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Being short 80,000 truck drivers and then mandating that all people driving a truck for a living be vaccinated for COVID or else lose their job.

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Paying people not to work is unsustainable. As is our current Social Security system.

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Going from being a country that produced 100 percent of its energy requirements to begging sheiks and cartel members to produce more energy. Canceling the Keystone pipeline, getting rid of leases on federal lands and waters and suspending leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve all in the name of the Green New Deal and because of a prediction that melting ice caps could flood Los Angeles. (There could be negative effects too.)

Then wondering why gasoline went up $1.30 a gallon in the past year.

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Substantially lowering the amount that farmers, ranchers and timber producers can shield from inheritance taxes so that upon the death of both parents the farm, ranch or forest has to be sold just to pay the taxes.

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BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION INVITE PUBLIC COMMENT ON NEW TOOL The Atlas is intended to be an accessible, updated, and comprehensive tool through which to measure the progress of conservation, stewardship, and restoration efforts across the United States in a manner that reflects the goals and principles

of the America the Beautiful initiative. The 60-day comment period will provide members of the public an opportunity to inform how the Atlas can reflect a continuum of conservation actions, recognizing that many uses of lands and waters can be

consistent with the long-term health of natural systems and contribute to addressing climate change and environmental injustices.

An interagency working group, co-led by the Interior Department’s U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will use the feedback from the public, states, Tribal Nations, scientists, and a wide range of stakeholders to inform development of the Atlas with a goal to release a beta version of the Atlas by the end of the year.

Last month, the Biden-Harris administration released the first annual progress report on the America the Beautiful initiative. The report outlined the collective work the Administration pursued in 2021, consistent with the first-ever national conservation goal established by a President.

Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help support the America the Beautiful initiative. The law provides the largest investment in the resilience of physical and natural systems in American history,

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funds water management and drought resilience, addresses legacy pollution from orphan wells and abandoned mines, and makes major investments in clean drinking water.

More information on submitting public comment: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments to Regulations.gov on or before March 4, 2022.

The interagency working group will host three 90-minute public listening sessions. Sessions will be livestreamed on the Events page. Interested parties who would like to share verbal comments during these sessions must register in advance using the links below, as speaking order will be determined by registration queue: Thursday, January 13, 2022, 2:00-3:30pm ET Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 6:00-7:30pm ET Friday, January 21, 2022, 11:00am-12:30pm ET

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Yosemite is Forcing Home Owners to Leave Without Compensation

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he week before Christmas, residents of the El Portal Trailer Park got letters from Yosemite National Park saying they have to remove or surrender their homes by early 2022 because Yosemite has other plans for the trailer park and is worried about power lines there that Yosemite owns.

“Thank you, Park Service,” Luke Harbin said sarcastically, shortly after heavy snowfall recently covered the mountains surrounding his mother’s home near Yosemite with a thick coat of white. Yosemite is not paying for mobile homes that residents own or moving expenses.

Letters dated December 13, signed by Yosemite Superintendent Cicely Muldoon, informed them for the first time that authorized tenants have to leave within 90 days. Harbin said his mother has worked in Yosemite for over 40 years and has lived in the trailer park for 38 years – 34 years in her current home.

“It’s sad. Imagine losing your home after 40 years,” Harbin said while standing beside a community playground built by his father, who died a couple years ago, and other parents.

At one time, kids of employees were abundant in the trailer park, but now only older residents remain.

The 32-year-old has fond memories of growing up in the small community for Yosemite workers, including learning to swim in a swimming hole near his family home. Tranquil El Portal, mostly populated by oak and pine trees, sits beside the Merced River and is about a five-minute drive from the west entrance of Yosemite National Park along Highway 140.

Yosemite owns land in El Portal, but not many of the homes that sit upon that land.

Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harbin said his mother spent at least $5,000 on a new metal roof for her double-wide mobile home that’s guaranteed for 10 years. She wouldn’t have done it had she known she’d be forced out without compensation two years later.

There are around a dozen mobile homes remaining in the community, along with some other smaller trailers. Many tears have been shed there since the December letter that told residents to leave. Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said unauthorized tenants, including renters who aren’t supposed to be there, only have 60 days to leave.

It’s unclear how many homeowners and others live there.

Gediman estimated there are about 12 residents, “plus or minus.” One homeowner estimated there are at least over 20 residents who are actively working for Yosemite. Gilbert Domingues is among those who will soon be displaced. He was born in Yosemite Valley and spent most of his life living continued on page 5

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YOSEMITE and working there. His aunt is Julia Parker – the face of Native Americans in Yosemite for many park visitors because of her longtime service at the Yosemite Museum.

“I just look at it as like I’m a Native American, and the government can take my land, so they are,” Domingues said. Like the others, he’s not sure where he will go. “There’s not much I can do really except just pack up and go,” Domingues said. “The government wins again.”

Trailer park residents received another letter from Yosemite’s superintendent in October, cautioning that the overhead electrical system was found to be in “very poor condition” in September and Yosemite “has contracted PG&E to fully assess the condition” – adding that “one potential outcome” might be Pacific Gas & Electric Company determining the power lines should be de-energized.

“If requisite repairs are not feasible, particularly in the context of the NPS’ long-term plan for the site,” then the National Park Service would “accelerate” the relocation of residents, giving them at least 60 days notice, the letter from Muldoon continued. The letter said the site will be converted to a public and administrative-use campground for recreational vehicles, with campground construction slated to begin in 2024. Several residents interviewed for this story said the letter was the first time they were informed of the 2024 date.

“We are not requesting tenants to vacate housing at this time,” the October letter reads.

“This letter serves only as a notice about the conditions of the Trailer Court’s electrical distribution system.” A subsequent Dec. 13 letter, titled “NOTICE OF TERMINATION,” does tell them to go: “Based on follow up assessment of the electrical utilities and input from PG&E, park management confirmed that long-term operation of the current infrastructure is not viable. Given the safety risks of continued operation the NPS is accelerating the closure of the Trailer Court and requiring authorized tenants to vacate their sites within 90 days of this notice.” Some residents were told by others that the real reason they’re being forced to leave so quickly is because Yosemite wants to use the land as a staging area for construction equipment for various Yosemite projects starting this spring.

The recent letters to residents don’t mention that, but Gediman confirmed it when asked for this story. The site being used as a construction area is ironic to some who recall residents being punished with community service for disturbing dirt in their yards and park rangers there trying to protect elderberry longhorn beetles.

The area is also an archaeological site, with ancient mortar holes on boulders – circular depressions created by Native Americans while grinding food.

Gediman said some major, multi-million-dollar Yosemite projects that might benefit from the trailer park being used as a construction staging area include a new planned wastewater treatment facility in El Portal, work on Glacier Point and Tioga roads, and campground rehabilitation.

“This is the administrative

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site,” Gediman said of El Portal.

“The area is designed to meet the administrative needs of the park. Again, with our budgets coming up and a need for staging area and temporary camping for the construction workers, this is the use that we need in order to operate the park.”

Yosemite recently redid power lines from Yosemite Valley to El Portal, but that didn’t include the El Portal Trailer Park. PG&E spokesman Denny Boyles said the company looked at El Portal power lines for Yosemite as a courtesy, not as a contractor. Boyles said the company isn’t sharing what it told Yosemite but that “there would never be a time where we would have any kind of authority to recommend a tenant be evicted for any reason.”

A worker who inspected the lines told residents there aren’t safety issues that warrant evictions. But if the infrastructure really is that bad, “why haven’t they been maintaining them?”

Harbin asked. “We’ve been paying them this whole time, for years. Why aren’t they out here doing their job?”

The El Portal Trailer Park – also called the El Portal Trailer Park Village and El Portal Trailer Court – has been around since the 1950s. Homeowners of the trailer park, who have to work in Yosemite to live there, were no longer allowed to sell their homes after the flood of 1997.

Annual lease agreements for the land beneath them changed to say the closure of the trailer park would “continue to be implemented through attrition.”

Several residents said they understood that to mean they had to leave when they no longer worked for Yosemite. One resident said there was once 58 occupied spaces in the trailer park. There were plans to close the trailer park in 2000, but that changed in 1999.

At that time, a previous Yosemite superintendent wrote, “Since the closure of the trailer village is dependent upon available funding, the January 1, 2000 closure date has been postponed. No new date for closure has been identified.”

Another NPS letter in 2003 said, “this statement continues to be fact.” Several residents said Yosemite didn’t share plans for the site with them – or a new move-out deadline or construction timelines – aside from the termination letters received in December.

Yosemite’s 2014 record of decision to preserve the wild and scenic Merced River – now a guiding document for park management and construction projects – talks about adding employee housing in El Portal. Within El Portal’s trailer park/adjacent Abbieville, parking and camping spaces will also be added, the plan states, while employee housing facilities there within the floodplain “will not be removed.” There’s also plenty of contradictions within the 200-page document, which, in another section, addresses removing or relocating some homes in the trailer park/ Abbieville and restoring a 150foot riparian buffer. The plan says to “remove development, asphalt and imported fill” right after noting a 300-space parking lot would be added in that area – an archaeological site. Changing and uncertain plans have left many residents unsure what to

expect.

Harbin said Yosemite was recently redoing sewage lines in the trailer park. Gediman said park officials communicated with residents numerous times about plans to close the trailer park through letters and community meetings and that “our intentions have been this way for almost thirty years now.”

Harbin has a very different take: “They’re pulling a fast one on us.”

Most who live in the trailer park now are older people who have worked in Yosemite for decades, residents said. They thought Yosemite would have given them more time to find a new place to live and move out – and not in the middle of winter. Most of the homes in the trailer park can hardly be considered “mobile” anymore.

Some have been there since the 1950s and have been retrofitted with various add-ons, like covered porches and attached sheds. The chances are slim that many could be moved, even if residents have the money and want to, due to narrow sections of road past the trailer park.

There’s been a one-lane bridge down the Merced River canyon since the massive Ferguson rockslide buried part of Highway 140 in 2006. Going the other direction, the road just past Yosemite’s west entrance narrows to one lane as it squeezes through an opening between boulders.

For those who can’t or don’t want to move their mobile homes, Muldoon told residents that “you have the option of surrendering your trailer and/or belongings to the NPS. Recognizing that the property holds no value and is not considered a donation to NPS.” Residents recall others in the past having to cut up and discard their homes themselves before leaving the trailer park. A letter sent to residents over 20 years ago from another Yosemite superintendent said trailer park residents might be eligible for possible relocation benefits under Public Law 91-646. There was no mention of compensation in recent letters.

Why not? Gediman said that the National Park Service is terminating the lease agreement, and “we’re not addressing anything beyond” that. It’s a harsh reality for those now scrambling to find new homes.

“We have rights and benefits as displaced people,” Harbin said, “and they’re trying to ignore all that.” Most soon-to-be displaced residents now face either potentially renting a dorm room in Yosemite Valley or driving along the often-icy Merced River canyon to Mariposa, 40 minutes from El Portal.

Housing is limited in rural Mariposa County, especially at the rate trailer park residents were paying, around $400 a month for trailer space. Some hope Yosemite will offer more time to move and said Rep. Tom McClintock’s office offered to review and endorse letters requesting time extensions. “Congressman McClintock’s office is aware of the issue,” said Jennifer Cressy, a spokesperson for McClintock, “and expects YNP to fairly consider the circumstances in each letter request for a time extension.”

Two Yosemite employees and trailer park residents asked not to be identified in this story out of fear of losing employment opportunities at the park. One

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“It’s the humanity part of it.”

The resident has lovingly worked on their small house for decades to make it a beloved home. Plus, “How can they do this when COVID is still going on? It’s still active. It’s still spreading.”

About not getting compensated: “It’s just wrong. I know that eminent domain happens everywhere – it’s progress – but people get paid.” Even a little compensation from Yosemite would be helpful, they said. This resident recently saw similar mobile homes in Mariposa being sold for over $100,000.

Residents also talked about wanting their community to look nicer. Harbin said after some previous trailers were torn out, there was trash littered across the trailer park for five years before Yosemite cleaned it up. In another instance, Harbin said he cleaned up some neighboring mess himself after Yosemite failed to do it after a couple of years. “It’s messed up. It’s not fair,” Harbin said of the state of the trailer park. “If you go over to the elementary school, it looks prestigious, and you come over here, and it looks like, literally, a dump.” Harbin said the Park Service owes trailer park residents at least some more time to leave. “It’s just not right how they went about doing all this.”

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Make 2022 Count

BY ARTHUR G. UHL III, TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS ASSOCIATION FIRST VICE PRESIDENT AND TSCRA PAC VICE-CHAIRMAN

T

he beginning of a new year is the perfect time to consider what will be important in the year ahead.

As an officer of Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, that means thinking about the long-term success of the cattle industry. Now, more than ever, that future is intertwined with policy and politics.

Local, state, national and even international policy directly affect our decisions on the ranch.

An ordinance enacted by your county commissioners or

city council may change what you can build on your land. A statute passed by the state legislature may impact the language required in a lease or easement.

A new federal tax law might change how much you owe in taxes. Even international policy, such as trade negotiations, may change global beef demand and impact your marketing decisions for the year ahead.

Even though many of these policy decisions seem out of our control, they’re not.

2022 provides us with the opportunity to elect individuals who share our principles and are willing to fight for our ability to own land and raise cattle. Who we elect this year will play a significant role in shaping policy for years to come.

This election cycle is particularly important because of the recent redistricting process, which caused Congressional

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and State Legislative districts to be redrawn. The changes prompted numerous legislators to retire or seek another office.

In Texas alone, some 35 state and federal elected officials have announced such plans.

With so many changes and new names on the ballot, there has never been a more important time to be engaged. Visit the candidates’ websites and learn about their values and background. Read articles about them and how they differ from their opponents. Attend events where they’re speaking to hear about their stances and shake their hands. You can even ask to meet one-on-one to discuss issues important to you and your fellow cattle producers.

Once you identify candidates who align with your goals and values, consider supporting their bid for elected office.

Most importantly, cast your ballot for them. You can also put a campaign sign on your fence or donate time or money to help with the campaign.

For many races, organizations like the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Political Action Committee will provide voting recommendations and offer more ways to get involved.

Unfortunately, running a successful campaign requires a lot of money. PACs, like ours, allow like-minded individuals to pool their resources and direct assistance where it’s needed most.

Sometimes, cattle producers’ biggest legislative advocate on a particular issue may be a lawmaker from the other end of the state or country. Donating to a PAC provides an opportunity to support their candidacy and your values even if you cannot vote for them directly.

However you choose to do so, I hope you will join us in supporting the candidates who support cattle producers. You can be certain the policymakers elected this year will have a tremendous impact on your future, so don’t miss an opportunity to shape that future.

Oakland Launches Joint Effort to Expedite Ag Exports

Biden Aims to Reduce Meat Prices With More Regulations, Federal Spending

to the companies paying less to producers and charging more to grocers.

The administration also dedicated $1 billion of American Rescue Plan funds in the way of grants, loans, and worker training to help small meat processors on top of the $500 million the USDA made available in July for “expanded meat and poultry processing capacity as part of efforts to increase competition.”

The president has faced heat from Republicans and in the polls over soaring prices across several industries, and the administration has pointed the finger at companies in other arenas such as oil and gas with accusations of price gouging – dismissing critics’ claims that government spending has contributed to inflation across the board.

Congress spent trillions in 2020 to provide aid after lockdowns and job losses brought on by COVID-19 under President Trump, and authorized spending billions more after Biden took office. Now, the Biden administration is pushing to spending further trillions for social programs paid for in part through further tax collection by bolstering the IRS. But the Biden administration placing the blame of rising meat

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n January 3, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s plans aimed at bringing down surging meat prices, with a major focus on stepping up regulations on meat packers and offering up more federal dollars in an effort to increase competition in the market.

The White House vowed to issue “new, stronger rules under the Packers & Stockyards Act” targeted at major beef, pork and poultry packing firms along with a dual initiative between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to launch a portal for “reporting concerns about potential violations of the competitions laws,” arguing that the spike in prices was due

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he Port of Oakland is set to launch an interagency effort to improve the flow of agriculture exports at the Port. The program involves the use of additional yard space and equipment, restored export ship calls and assistance to export users. The goal is to provide relief to agricultural exporters who are facing shortages of export capacity and skyrocketing logistics costs.

The Port will open and operate a 25-acre off-terminal, paved container yard equipped to move containers off chassis and store them for rapid pick-up. The yard will provide access to equipment and provide faster truck turns without having to wait for in-terminal space. Agriculture exporters will be assisted by federal and state agricultural agencies to use the yard.

The Port of Oakland is the preferred export gateway for much of California’s agricultural exporters and for refrigerated proteins.

Under normal circumstances, the cargo volume at the Port is approximately 50 percent exports and 50 percent imports providing a match between inbound cargo and emptied containers for exports.

However, the current import surge clogging up the ports is displacing ships and containers that are available to exporters, especially shipments of farm goods. The port saw significant drops in export volume due to skipped sailings of crucial export lines and lack of equipment for export cargo.

The situation was the catalyst for a convening of state and port officials with farm producers and transportation executives to solve a year-old shipping crisis. At stake was the state’s multi-billion-dollar agriculture export industry. The meeting was led by the California Governor’s Office of Business & Economic Development Director Dee Dee Myers, State Transportation Agency Secretary David S. Kim and California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross. Participants included seaport stakeholders within the broad and varied agricultural commodity sectors, freight forwarders, trucking and warehousing operators. The meeting resulted in a list of potential solutions to unclog the supply chain for agriculture exports.

“We need the shipping companies to immediately restore the export lines from Oakland to Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent,” said Bryan Brandes, Port of Oakland maritime director.

“In the meantime, the Port — along with our federal and state partners — is ready to do everything we can to help provide room and relief to help our agricultural customers,” said Danny Wan, port executive director.

Biden Administration Port Envoy John Porcari facilitated frequent discussions with agricultural exporters, shipping lines and the Port of Oakland to lend federal support. The discussions have focused on both short-term and long-term solutions to support American agricultural exporters. Long terms solutions include:

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Asset management including availability of containers and the chassis used to transport them over the road.

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prices on large packers is getting some pushback, particularly from a group that represents such entities of all sizes.

The White House said in a fact sheet that “four large meat-packing companies control 85 percent of the beef market,” and the president pointed to them – without naming names – when discussing rising prices with independent farmers during a remote meeting on Monday.

Sarah Little, spokesperson for the North American Beef Institute told FOX Business in a statement that this is nothing new, saying, “There have been 4 firms operating in the fed cattle market for nearly 30 years.”

“Why inflation now?” Little asked rhetorically. “Labor remains the biggest challenge.

Our members of all sizes cannot operate at capacity because they cannot employ a long-term stable workforce. New capacity and expanded capacity created by the government will have the same problem.”

Little argued, “All of the aid announced will do little to help producers or packer processors now.”

Editor’s Note: It is worth knowing that the American Meat Institute is the lobbyist for the major packers.

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■ SARGENT CANYON RANCH (Chaves/Otero Co.) –18,460 +/- ac. - 200 +/- deeded, 2,580 +/- State, 11,200 +/- BLM, 4,480 +/- Forest - permitted for 380 AUs yearround, well watered, good headquarters, very nice updated home, excellent pens & out buildings. Scenic ranch!

■ PRICE REDUCED! DRY CIMARRON RANCH – Union Co., NM – 1,571 ac.+/- of grassland on the dry Cimarron River, located on pvmt. near Kenton, OK just under the Black Mesa.

■ CEDARVALE, NM – 7,113 acre ranch (5,152 ac. +/Deeded – 1,961 ac. +/- State Lease) well fenced & watered w/good pens, new barn.

■ “RARE FIND” LAJUNTA, CO – Otero Co, CO, 400 +/- acres. 3.5 mi. east of LaJunta, just 65 miles from Pueblo, CO! Home, barns, pens, fenced, good access, close to town.

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■ EAST EDGE OF FT. SUMNER, NM – a 900 hd. grow yard w/immaculate 7.32 ac. +/-, a beautiful home, & other improvements w/a long line of equipment included, on pvmt.

■ DALLAM CO, TX – 1,216.63 ac. +/- of CRP/ranchland w/irrigation, re-development potential, wells & pipelines already in place.

■ QUAY CO, NM. – 142 ac. +/-, 120.5 ac. +/- CRP, very nice site-built home & barn, located on all weather road.

■ CASTRO CO, TX. – some of the strongest water in the area, 1,280 ac. +/- w/two half-mile sprinklers & six irrigation wells, on pvmt., prime farming country.

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COWBOY DRAW RANCH Excellent small cattle ranch located in southeastern New

Mexico approximately 50 miles northwest of Roswell on the Chaves/Lincoln county line. 7,455 total acres with 2,600 deeded with the balance federal BLM lease acres. Permitted for 151 animal units yearlong with an additional 30 animal units on a temporary nonrenewable basis. Watered with two wells and several miles of water pipeline. Two larger open draws run through the ranch that provide overflow areas to enhance grazing. The terrain is open and rolling with good turf. The ranch has had good summer rains with no cattle since last spring. The ranch is in excellent condition. Call for a brochure and come take a look. Price: $1,350,000 Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Bar M Real Estate, LLC P.O. Box 428, Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 Cell: 575-420-1237 Website: www.ranchesnm.com

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CIMARRON PASTURE, 6.26± deeded acres. $139,000. Sold separately, 3.1116± acres irrigated off 1870 Maxwell-Clutton Ditch. $45,000. Water meter, well. 3 phase power. Next to Cimarron River.

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American Car Manufacturer to Go Full Electric, Will No Longer Offer Internal Combustion Vehicles

BY ABBY LIEBING / THE WESTERN JOURNAL

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utomaker Chrysler has announced plans to go completely electric by 2028, anticipating the release of its first electric vehicle by 2025.

Chrysler announced the plans along with a new AI-enabled vehicle system powered by a battery that the company says can travel 350 to 400 miles per charge, as The Associated Press reported.

Chrysler is part of Europe’s Stellantis, which last month announced a new strategy to embed AI-enabled software into millions of vehicles across its 14 different brands. This could gain Stellantis $22.6 billion in annual revenue by 2030.

This is all part of the race among automakers to produce more completely electric and hybrid cars that also have more autonomous driving features. Overall, this would begin shifting cars away from gasoline-powered engines.

As one of the main American brands of Stellantis, Chrysler will be on the front lines of this change in the auto industry in North America.

Feuell also said that Chrysler plans to show the new Airflow concept vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which will give a view into Chrysler’s future design plans and how the brand will be remaking itself, Reuters reported.

“We are completely transforming the portfolio for Chrysler between 2025 and 2028, and

beyond,” Feuell said.

The name Airflow refers back to the 1930s when Chrysler released a sleek and popular sedan.

While Chrysler will be one of the first brands to make this change, there are also plans to make Alfa Romeo, one of Stellantis’ other brands, all electric in North American by 2027, Reuters reported.

Chrysler, however, will be undergoing a complete rebranding through its efforts. The company, in recent years, has not lived up to what it used to be in the early 2000s.

Chrysler sold over 115,000 vehicles last year in the U.S. Compared to the 650,000 vehicles it sold in 2005, it’s apparent why Chrysler needs a bit of a makeover. Producing sleek, new

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EVs may be the best way to do that.

Meanwhile, Stellantis’ overall goal for electric vehicles will target a large share of the auto markets in both Europe and the U.S. to be low-emission vehicles.

Reuters reported that this new plan could change “more than 70 percent of sales in Europe and over 40 percent in the United States to be low-emission vehicles — either battery or hybrid electric — by 2030. ”This is all part of the bigger, industry-wide trend to produce battery-powered and electric vehicles. Consumer Reports predicted that hundreds of new EV models from different manufacturers will start populating the market by 2024.”

“These more affordable models have the potential to sway a significant percentage of the car-buying public toward buying an EV with their efficiency, performance, and lower owner-

ship costs,” Gabe Shenhar, the associate director of Consumer Reports’ Auto Test Center, said.

Chrysler is not the only North American brand on the path to producing more EVs. Consumer Reports also listed that Ford, BMW, Honda, Toyota, Jaguar, Volvo, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and more are also in the lineup to produce electric vehicles.

With nearly all major automakers jumping on the EV bandwagon, Chrysler will have stiff competition.

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U.K. Confirms Rare Human Case of Avian Influenza

BY KATE GIBSON / MEATINGPLACE.COM

A highly unusual bird-to-human transmission of avian flu has been detected following an outbreak of in a flock in England, according to the UK Health Security Agency.

The person became infected after very close and regular contact with a large number of infected birds over a prolonged period, the agency said Thursday in a news release.

The infected birds have all been culled.

“While avian influenza is highly contagious in birds, this is a very rare event and is very specific to the circumstances,” Christine Middlemiss, the UK’s chief veterinary officer, said in a statement.

Those in contact with the individual have been traced and there is no evidence of it spreading to other people. The infected person is “currently well and self-isolating,” the agency stated.

There have recently been a large number of outbreaks and incidents of avian flu in birds across the UK of the H5N1 strain. The individual was infected with the ‘H5’ type found in birds, but it was not possible to confirm an H5N1 infection, the UK officials said.

The development came as the Netherlands reported a second culling of thousands of chickens due to bird flu, and as the World Organization for Animal Health warned new variants raised the risk of it spreading to people.

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Hormel Urged to Report on Societal “Costs” of Antibiotics in Meat

BY KATE GIBSON / MEATINGPLACE.COM

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nonprofit group is calling on Hormel Foods to report on the “environmental and public health costs” of antibiotics in its meat, and the potential impact to shareholders.

The proposal by The Shareholder Commons is set for a vote at Hormel’s annual meeting later this month. Hormel’s first Antibiotic Stewardship Report released in January 2021 does not address the risks Hormel is creating for “the global economy through the use of animals treated with antibiotics,” the organization states in a regulatory filing.

The Austin, Minn.-based company opposes the proposal, calling in an “unnecessary expense” that diverts its attention from “ensuring stewardship of antibiotics with our supply chain,” the Hormel board wrote in its proxy statement.

Hormel is the latest in a growing count of corporations having to contend with environmental and social issues raised by activist shareholders. The Shareholder Commons put a similar antibiotic reporting proposal up for a vote at McDonald’s annual meeting last year, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. It was defeated.

Hormel’s annual meeting will be held online on January 25, 2022

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Livestock Market Digest

Why is There a Lumber Shortage in the U.S.?

BY SIERRA DAWN MCCLAIN / CAPITAL PRESS

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any parts of the U.S. are facing lumber shortages — and experts say the problem is acute in the West after 2020’s devastating wildfires.

Industry experts say several events led to the lumber shortage: lockdown orders and closures, new safety protocols that slowed production at mills, and a spike in home remodeling while Americans were quarantined followed by a massive wildfire season.

“The industry is normally like this fine-tuned machine. A lot of events (in 2020) disrupted it,” said Cindy Mitchell, senior director of public affairs at the Washington Forest Protection Association (WPFA).

2021 Land Report Top 10 Landowners in the U.S. 1. California’s Emmer-

son Family, owners of Sierra Pacific Industries, with more than 2.33 million deeded acres.

2. Liberty Media Chair-

man John Malone with 2.2 million acres.

3. Washington’s Reed

Family with 2.1 million acres.

4. CNN Founder Ted

Turner with 2 million acres.

5. Los Angeles Rams’

owner Stan Kroenke with 1,627,500 acres.

6. Canada’s Irving

Family with 1,267,792 acres,

7. Recently deceased

Peter Buck with 1,236,000 acres.

8. Kentucky’s Brad

Kelley with 1,139,984 acres.

9. California’s Singleton

Family with 1,100,000 acres.

10. Texas’ King Ranch

Heirs with 911,215 acres.

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Cumming Corp., an international cost consulting firm, said wildfires along the West Coast “have led to a significant spike in certain material prices.”

According to the Oregon Forest and Industries Council, or OFIC, a trade group representing forestland owners and wood product manufacturers, last year’s fires in Oregon alone may have killed 15 billion board-feet of timber, enough to build 1 million homes.

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), reports that between midApril and mid-September 2020, lumber prices soared more than 170 percent, adding $16,148 to the price of a typical new single-family home.

Prices drifted lower at the start of fall, but they’re on the rise again.

Mitchell of WFPA and Sara Duncan, spokeswoman for Oregon Forest and Industries Council (OFIC) both said the lumber crisis was precipitated by several events.

Some Western states temporarily shut down construction work at the start of COVID-19, which in turn meant some mills had to shut down, creating a backlog. New safety protocols within mills slowed production.

With Americans stuck at home under shutdowns, remodeling boomed and people used up much of the existing lumber supply at a time when mill production was curtailed.

Then wildfire season hit, wiping out millions of acres of timberland. Now, demand for building materials is even higher from West Coast communities that are rebuilding after fires.

The lumber shortage has had a variety of impacts. Construction associations have

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reported contractors are showing increased interest in alternative materials, such as metal framing.

Forestry leaders say higher lumber prices don’t mean timberland managers are hitting it big. Instead, experts say, many timber companies are facing tight margins because they had equipment and trees destroyed in fires, higher input costs and expenses associated with labor and reforesting.

Lumber shortages also have economic consequences for fire victims. Many U.S. insurance policies limit the time frame a person has to rebuild a home after a fire. With limited supplies of lumber and few contractors available, many survivors may not meet their insurance rebuilding deadlines.

Some state agencies are seeking to address this. In Oregon, for example, the state Division of Financial Regula-

tion recently negotiated agreements with several insurance companies, pushing them to extend their timelines to at least two years after the date of loss.

“The weirdness of (2020) backed up the whole forestry system,” said Mitchell of WPFA.

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Livestock Market Digest

Biden on water

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he big one here is the “waters of the united states”, or WOTUS issue. The way you define WOTUS determines the

jurisdiction and authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (COE).

To best understand what Biden has done, or in this case undone, it needs to be placed in historical context. So let’s take a stroll through the wonderland of one section of the Clean Water Act. Prepare yourself, because its gonna be a bumpy ride.

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lation on clean water passed in 1948, and WOTUS was not much of an issue until the 80s when the EPA and COE began taking an expansive view of their authority. This led Congress, in 1986, to pass legislation which included a definition of WOTUS. While lengthy, the guts of the definition is: “1. All waters which are currently used, or were used in the past, or may be susceptible to use in interstate or foreign commerce, including all waters which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide; 2. All interstate waters including interstate wetlands; 3. All other waters such as intrastate lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, or natural ponds, the use, degradation or destruction of which could affect interstate or foreign commerce…”

It appears to be a pretty clear, in fact exhaustive, list of what is, and therefore what is not, a navigable water subject to federal jurisdiction. But no, it left enough wiggle room for the two agencies to continue on with their expansive ways.

However, in 2001 and 2006, the feds lost two major Supreme Court decisions, SWANCC and Rapanos. In both decisions the Supreme Court ruled the EPA and the COE had overstepped their regulatory authority by adopting an overbroad interpretation of navigable waters.

In Rapanos, Justice Kennedy wrote that waters and wetlands must have “significant nexus” to “navigable waters” to fall within the fed’s jurisdiction. Kennedy further cautioned that “environmental concerns provide no reason to disregard the limits in the statutory text.” Still, the agencies failed to trim their regulatory ambitions. In fact, just the opposite happens.

Are you still with me? I hope so because the best is yet to happen.

Along comes Obama who claims the two Supreme Court opinions have caused “confusion” and ordered the agencies to take another look and make any changes that were warranted. The result was an expansive 2015 WOTUS rule that put sixty percent of our bodies of water under federal control. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation the Obama rule “creates confusion and risk by giving the agencies almost unlimited authority to regulate, at their discretion, any low spot where rainwater collects, in-

January 15, 2022 cluding common farm ditches, ephemeral drainages, agricultural ponds and isolated wetlands found in and near farms and ranches across the nation, no matter how small or seemingly unconnected they may be to true ‘navigable waters’.”

The Obama rule was so extreme it would have regulated waters that couldn’t even be seen by the naked eye. The American Farm Bureau Federation explained: “…distant regulators using “desktop tools” can conclusively establish the presence of a ‘tributary’ on private lands, even where the human eye can’t see water or any physical channel or evidence of water flow.

That’s right—invisible tributaries!

The agencies even claim ‘tributaries’ exist where remote sensing and other desktop tools indicate a prior existence of bed, banks, and [ordinary high-water marks], where these features are no longer present on the landscape today.”

Then along comes Trump who, in February of 2017, issues an Executive Order titled Presidential Executive Order on Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and Economic Growth by Reviewing the Waters of the United States Rule. It instructed EPA and the Corps to begin the process of a rulemaking to withdraw and replace the Obama WOTUS rule. This eventually led to Trump’s 2020 WOTUS order which brought the clarity many industry groups sough as it defined the WOTUS as: (1) the territorial seas and traditional navigable waters, (2) tributaries of such waters, and (3) certain lakes, ponds and impoundments of jurisdictional waters. It also laid out specific exclusions, such as ephemeral features as well as ditches and farm ponds.

Then along comes Biden (Yes, we finally get there).

What does Biden do on his very first day in office? He issued a sweeping Executive Order requiring the review of all Trump environmental orders, including the one on WOTUS. Amazingly, the agencies reported back that the Trump rule was deficient in protecting the nation’s waters and a draft new rule has been issued with the same expansive coverage as the Obama rule while avoiding some of its legal frailties. They hope to accomplish this by making determinations on a caseby-case basis rather than using categorical exclusions. One analysis of this approach says it will have two impacts. The

Global Food Prices Hit 10-Year Peak: UN Agency

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o the surprise of few consumers, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is reporting that world food prices hit their highest levels since 2011 last year despite a slight monthly easing in December.

The FAO’s monthly index averaged 125.7 points in 2021, up 28.1 percent from the 2020 average and the highest level since 131.9 percent in 2011, the agency said today. It cited harvest setbacks for corn and wheat and strong demand over the last year in light of

first is increased uncertainty for landowners, likely resulting in decreased land values because of the prospect that land tracts may be undevelopable at worst, or expensive to develop at best.

The second is that more caseby-case determinations will increase the time and expense it takes for landowners to get a decision on whether their land is covered by the act.

Okay DuBois, you’ve walked us through this quagmire, now tell us what conclusions you’ve reached.

First, look at the power flow.

Under the Trump rule, power flows to the individual and state and local governments and away from the feds. The Biden proposal does just the opposite, with power flowing away from the individual and residing with the feds. I think you will see this in the final WOTUS rule, and many other Biden environmental policies.

This should also serve as a counter to those who want to nationalize all natural resource production. They argue that nationalizing means all our precious resources will be managed on a scientific basis. Do you see anything scientific about the process I’ve described? They also claim that all resource policy will be made by trained professionals and based on objective criteria. Look again at what I have described. It looks more like a ping pong battle between two inept political parties.

Finally, see how bad the feds want this authority. They have ignored or skirted around two Supreme Court decisions and at least one federal statute to retain this authority. We must have water to survive and they want to control that water. Control the water and they control the land use and they control us.

Until next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget to check that cinch.

Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot. com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship and The DuBois Western Heritage Foundation

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the COVID-19 pandemic for the overall higher prices.

The FAO’s Meat Price Index was “broadly stable” in December, but climbed by 12.7 percent over the entire year.

All of the prices for food posted sharp increases throughout 2021, and FAO officials warned that higher food costs in import-reliant countries are putting poorer populations at risk.

The agency’s senior economist, Abdolreza Abbassian, noted that high food prices normally ease as production increases to meet higher demand. However, the consistently high costs of inputs, the global pandemic and volatile climate conditions “leave little room for optimism about a return to more stable market conditions even in 2022,” he said.

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January 15, 2022

Livestock Market Digest

More Wolf Woes

BY CAREN COWAN

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he U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) announced its proposed changes to management regulations for Mexican wolves in the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area in Arizona and New Mexico under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act on October 27, 2021. Comments are due on January 27, 2022.

This notice came after an unknown number of meetings with agencies and individuals providing the draft rule to them.

Ranchers and those most directly by the wolf program were not included in those who received prior notice of the document. Some ranchers learned of the last meeting which was to be held on October 28. When they asked about the meeting and participation in it, they were offered private briefings well after the publication.

According to their notice, the FWS is proposes to modify the population objective, establish a genetic objective and temporarily restrict three allowable forms of take of Mexican wolves in the MWEPA that were established in the 2015 10(j) rule. The proposed changes to the rule will bring the management of the wild population in line with recovery criteria for the species as identified in the 2017 Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, First Revision.

A press release by Michael Robinson with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) also issued on October 27 provides the sordid details of the government’s plan. Referencing a draft notice for the Federal Register, Robinson says that the population cap on the numbers of Mexican wolves allowed to live in the Southwest.

In the 2015 the FWS’s 10(j) rule called for at least 320 wolves in both the Southwestern U.S. and in Mexico with 750 wolves in three separate populations would likely be necessary to achieve range-wide recovery. (https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/mexicanwolf/pdf/Mx_wolf_10j_final_rule_to_OFR. pdf ) “Some speculate that the reason for removing the cap on the wolves,” said Don L. (Bebo) Lee, New Mexico Federal Lands Council President, Alamogordo, “is because the FWS really has no idea how many wolves there. Although the FWS publishes counts annually of the number of wolves in the Southwest population, they are hardly accurate because they count only wolves that are collared.

“After 23 years of the program,” he explained, “scientists are now telling us that the wolf population is expanding. Ranchers confirm that information with the amount of livestock and pets that are being killed. Anonymous sources tell us that FWS employees have also made such statements.”

Robinson also reports that the proposed rule could also temporarily curtail some of the circumstances under which federal, state and private killing of wolves is allowed, even before the population reaches 320 animals. The proposed rule would also bar state game agencies from killing wolves under the rationale of protecting elk, deer or pronghorn, if the numbers of surviving cross-fostered animals were to fall below projections, Robinson wrote.

Scientists, including members of the Mexican wolf recovery team, have found that recovery requires additional wolf populations in areas north of that boundary, including the southern Rocky Mountains and the Grand Canyon, Robinson continued.

The proposal was published the Federal Register (docket # FWS–R2–ES–2021–0103) on October 29th. The public has 90 days to review and comment on the proposal with comments due on or before January 27, 2022.

While now there is a relatively small number of ranchers suffering tremendous wolf losses, the wolves are a problem for every rancher. The ranching community must band together to submit comments and fight back against these new regulations.

Draft comments will be prepared by the Arizona / New Mexico Coalition of Counties, the New Mexico Federal Lands Council, Protect Americans Now and other groups to assist in providing comments.

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EPA:

A Third of Food Produced in The U.S. is Never Eaten

BY SUSAN KELLY / MEATINGPLACE.COM

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ore than onethird of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce it and generating annual greenhouse gas emissions equal to 42 coal-fired power plants, according to a report from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The United States has not yet made significant progress toward its goal, announced in 2015, to cut in half its food loss and waste by 2030, the recently

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released report found.

The EPA said it prepared the report, titled “From Farm to Kitchen: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food Waste,” to inform policymakers, researchers and the public of the environmental footprint of food loss and waste and the benefits that can be achieved by reducing that waste.

Food is the most common material in U.S. landfills, comprising 24 percent of municipal solid waste, and most common material incinerated (22 percent), EPA said.

Globally, uneaten food represents 8 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Addressing food waste presents opportunities to increase food security, foster productivity and economic efficiency, promote resource and energy conservation, address climate change, and help feed the world’s growing population, the agency said.

Decreasing food waste also can lessen the need for new food production, shrinking projected deforestation, biodiversity loss,

greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and water scarcity, the report said.

The waste of resources each year from uneaten food encompasses 140 million acres of agricultural land – an area the size of California and New York combined; water equal to that used by 50 million American homes each year; 778 million pounds of pesticides; 14 billion pounds of fertilizer; 664 billion kilowatt hours of energy; and 170 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent GHG emissions (excluding landfill emissions).

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