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20 Scrapie: Old Disease, New Options

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25 How Corrupt is Government Science?

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28 EPA’s Astounding Take-Over of State Water Law: Comment Period Ends 42 Drug-Resistant Genes Spread Through Environment – Not Meat Products 53 A Country Girl’s Musins’

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Pat Boone NMCGA President

Hello Neighbors Pat Boone President Elida Tom Sidwell President-Elect Quay

Jack Chatfield Vice President at Large Mosquero Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Blair Clavel NE Vice President Roy Jeff Bilberry SE Vice President Elida Randell Major SW Vice President Magdalena Shacey Sullivan (Russell) Secretary/Treasurer Albuquerque Jose J. Varela Lopéz Past President La Cieneguilla

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s I write this, I have just finished helping my last neighbor brand for the spring works. We have had a good season of work, branding our cattle and helping our neighbors brand theirs. I thank God every day for horses and cows, and good neighbors, and for the days we’ve gotten to be together and work. We had a good crew today at the Hisel ranch, with a good number of good, young hands who love to work cattle, and are good at it. I am encouraged that there will be a few to take the place of us graybeards.

Speaking of young people, we spent a couple of days in mid-May in Las Cruces attending the Agrifuture conference. Numbers were down from two years ago, but we still had a good group of young ag producers attend. We had good breakout sessions and good tours for them to attend and listen and see firsthand how successful producers operate. Thank you to all who had a part in it. Again, I am encouraged that there is indeed still a future for ag in New Mexico.

Please support the NM Game Commission for upholding their decision to expand the hunting of Cougars. Animal rights groups have blasted the Governor’s office and the Commission with calls and emails expressing their opposition to the Cougar rule. Contact me or the NMCGA office for phone numbers and email addresses to show your support.

We continue to work on ESA issues (e.g. the meadow jumping mouse), workers comp, wolves, and whatever else comes along to attempt to drive us all out of business. Thank you all for your support in what we do. If you are reading this and are a NM cattle producer and not a member of NMCGA, please consider sending in your dues and joining our Association today. We need all of you to stand with us and for us. We are here for you, our friends and neighbors, and ask you to help us help ourselves. They are after us, our land, and our way of life.

We must be diligent.

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I better sign off for now. I hope to see you all in Ruidoso for our Mid-Year meeting June 12-14. I hope you have all had a shower or two, and pray for a good wet summer, with fat calves, full tanks, and a good market in the fall. God bless.

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TO THE POINT

by Caren Cowan, Executive Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

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am not really sure what I am going to write about once this election is over... which cannot be soon enough. The 2016 presidential campaign came to New Mexico in full force in late May. Sanders took the state by storm drawing large crowds from Santa Fe to the Mexican border. Former President Bill Clinton made his way with several quiet stops between Española and Albuquerque. Michelle Obama gave a graduation address in Santa Fe while her husband was traveling internationally deriding a presidential candidate.

I get that he is our nation’s president and that there is respect due the office, if not the man. But, there should be a rule in there somewhere that requires a president act like a president.

The main New Mexico event was presumed Republican nominee Donald

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As the Stomach Turns Trump’s single stop in Albuquerque. I was out of town so I missed... probably it was a good thing, given the outcome. It wasn’t what went on inside that made the national news, but rather the misbehavior that took place outside, including some Trump supporter being hurt.

While the fact that people, from New Mexico or anywhere else, can think that they can get away with violence of that nature totally baffles me, clearly they can.

While the Albuquerque Police Chief says otherwise, I cannot help but believe that the US Department of Justice’s hold over the Department played a role in the inability to control the crowd before things got out of hand.

Before the evening was over, there were some 300 law enforcement officials on hand. There was a report that every

member of the Albuquerque Police Department was hit by a rock, bottle, pipe or who knows what else. I cannot image any policy or procedure that calls for anyone to allow that to happen. It is appreciated that videos are being scanned to make arrests beyond the four that took place the night of the riot.

But, is that the new mode of law enforcement? Allow criminals to commit crimes right in front of police, do nothing and they hope you can identify them from a video later?

But that event isn’t the biggest problem with the whole thing. Where are the Humane Society of the US (HSUS), Animal Protection of New Mexico, Animal Voters, PETA, Wild Horse Observers Association (WHOA) or any of the other numerous groups that continually attack animal owners and users and or the New Mexico

Livestock Board? How could anyone who was taking a photo of the rioters pushing a horse to the ground, maybe causing injury depending upon which news outlet you choose to believe, not be screaming to high heaven about the cruelty to those horses perpetrated by criminals??? The police horses were attacked just as brutally as the police men and women. One was hit with an incendiary device that could have easily set the tail on fire. Where is the outrage?

To Mayor R.J. Berry’s credit, he has posted $10,000 in rewards for aide in locating these criminals. The reward fund is also accepting donations. The Mayor liberally spoke about the horses in his radio interview on the riot and the reward fund and that is greatly appreciated by people who

truly care about animals. However, is this how future law enforcement will be handled?

Undoubtedly there will be more elections antics to talk about next month.

Our Own Worst Enemy It may be time to take a look in the mirror.

As we have problems raining down on us from every quarter, we need to decide if we want things fixed or if we want the fix to be ours at all costs.

I know exactly how much fun it is to jump up and punch somebody in the face, figuratively of course. But I have learned the hard lesson that often that charging attitude only makes the situation worse.

Sometimes, maybe even often, there is

a need to quietly sit down in a safe environment with a few people to begin to step the rhetoric back to the point that a reasonable conversation can be had, where willing minds can come off the defense and begin to look outside the box for solutions. There may be tools or methods to move forward to benefit everyone.

The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) has had an aggressive litigation strategy for nearly two decades.

In the early years the Association’s success rate was a howling success, with only a wolf case in the loss column.

Over time we have been bested by federal agencies all to willing to settle away wins just to calm the waters. It has been long enough that federal agencies are

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putting policies in place that take away those early wins, creating untenable situations.

Litigation may still be a valuable tool and it is being used right now on the wolf, jaguar, lesser prairie chicken and other “endangered species.” If there is solid footing for a suit, along with a clear path it may be worth taking the chance. Even with that premise, there is no doubt that we are dealing from a loaded deck and out funded.

Litigation is a tool, but it is not the only tool as we fight to keep ranchers on the ground in the state as a whole.

Do we want to keep ranching or do we want to be right?

hundreds of species before 2017. Not that in the critical habitat designation that the enviros have heeded the settlement uplands needed to be included as well was agreement, but federal agencies are bound devastating for some ranchers. by it.

According to the USFS, there are 14 allotWork began on the species in earnest in ments in New Mexico and Arizona that are early 2014 when U.S. Forest Service (USFS) impacted at the present time. The agency allotment owners were advised that their believes that they have made adequate grazing could be cut as a result of the forth- arrangements with 13 of those allotments coming listing and critical habitat without cutting grazing. They admit that designation in the forests where the mouse the last allotment presents unique chalwas/is believed to live. The listing came on lenges that it may take awhile to address.

J u n e 10 , Because riparian 2015 with areas are fenced off, the critical there is great habitat desconcern about the This “critically endangered” ignation water rights that and elusive critter is found in allotment owners following in A Mouse In the House March 2016. have claimed for only three places in the West ...”

Among the issues of crisis in New Mexico Fencing generations. is the endangered New Mexico meadow of riparian Because there are no jumping mouse. This “critically endangered” areas began man-made diverand elusive critter is found in only three in 2014 and was expanded to 300 feet either sions, the New Mexico Office of the State places in the West, the Apache Sitgreaves side of a stream in the designated critical Engineer (OSE) does not find any legal National Forest in Arizona as well as the habitat area. At first the word was that the grounds to have the fences removed, at Lincoln and Santa Fe National Forests. It mouse needed tall grasses along stream least at this point in time. was one of the animals included in the beds. The mouse is only out from late May Some 50 New Mexico Legislators have mega settlement made with the radical to early September. While taking away any been in contact with the OSE. Congressman environmentalists by the federal govern- grazing in the high country during the Steve Pearce has been working any and ment in 2012 that required action on grazing season is a big problem, the news every angle he can think of. The New

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Mexico Department of Agriculture has committed resources. New Mexico State University’s Range Improvement Task Force has been on the case for years. The Otero County Cattlemen’s Association and the Otero County Farm Bureau have been relentless in trying to protect their members.

The Otero County Commission has been involved. There was litigation including the NMCGA and the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureaus filed in 2014 on the initial fencing that ended in a loss. If I have inadvertently omitted anyone, please accept my apologies in advance.

The point is that there are numerous people who are trying to come up with a solution. I believe there are untapped opportunities to protect ranchers throughout the state as the next 53 listing species, plus an untold number to be listed, come down. I cannot tell you what those are, but if I didn’t believe that we can find something to work on this and other issues, I couldn’t get out of bed every day.

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The current situation is that near the end of May, the USFS is waiting on a draft biological opinion (BO) from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS). That could come as soon as early June. The draft BO will be presented to the affected allotment owner.

That owner may choose to share the document with others. There will likely be a meeting between the owner, the USFS and the FWS. There will be at least a 30-day comment period on the BO. It is certain that while the current fencing is temporary hot wire, that doesn’t phase elk, there will eventually be a more effective temporary barbed wire fence and in all likelihood a permanent structure at some point in the foreseeable future.

The State Engineer is working to find or permit solutions that apply to the water availability. But even that may not solve all the issues.

There is not a solution on the table at the moment, but work continues on all fronts.

Stay tuned.

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make wool socks. “These are domestic companies that weren’t using American wool for their product because of the time involved in shipping and processing the wool overseas.

As ASI Vice President, Corn sees the conby Callie Gnatkowski Gibson stant stream of issues that impact the t’s a good time to be in the sheep busi- those produced in New Mexico, is up. A big industry, but is also proud of what the organess. With increasing demand for lamb part of Australia’s sheep producers are now nization has accomplished. “We always and a good wool market worldwide – producing “super fine” wool, so the supply need more volunteers, but it’s hard when domestic sheep producers are in a good of medium range wools is down worldwide, people are so busy trying to make a living. position. In New Mexico, producers are and the supply side of the market is dictat- For such a small organization, we carry a lot going into the summer with good feed, ing prices. “As far as the overall health of the of weight,” he pointed out. “People look to green grass, and hope for the future. wool industry, I us for guidance on In southeastern New Mexico, Mike Corn feel like we’re many issues. shares their optimism. Corn operates fixing to turn it Recently, ASI was The military is utilizing Roswell Wool, which consolidates and on again,” Corn able to work with the markets wool from across the United States said. “As soon as U.S. Labor Departsuper washed domestic to domestic and international companies. inte r n ati o n a l ment on proposed He and his son Bronson also run the family’s currencies stabichanges to the H2A wool for many of its needs, and ranching operation – raising fine-wool lize, I think the program which sheep and Hereford cattle. In addition, Corn tex tile indusallows sheep producthere is also increased demand is currently serving as Vice President of the tries will be in a ers to hire American Sheep Industry Association (ASI), good position.” sheepherders from from several smaller sporting the sheep industry’s national trade A big factor other countries. The organization. in that increased goods-type businesses that are proposed changes Roswell Wool has held two wool sales in demand is new were very significant, 2016, with one more scheduled for early wool processing and would have now able to use domestic wool June. “We were tickled with the March 28 equipment that made the program sale – we sold all but one lot and our pro- was imported unworkable for most to make wool socks. “ ducers were happy – then the market went into the United sheep producers. ASI up some more,” Corn said. “The April sale States by ASI. was very involved in was also very good, the overseas currencies This super wash equipment processes wool the process, and the final program changes are working in our favor right now.” to eliminate the problem of shrinkage, so were workable for producers and the Wool volume is up, Corn said, with that wool can be machine washed. “This department.

Roswell Wool marketing as much wool has been very successful,” he noted. “Now, ASI is also continuing to fight for productoday as when Corn and his partners wool can be used in all types of garments ers in northern states, like Colorado, bought the warehouse twenty years ago. that never would have been considered Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, where the U.S. “We will sell between 3.5 and 4 million before – including suiting and socks.”

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organization’s position is that if disease transmission was a serious problem, the current healthy Bighorn populations wouldn’t exist because there has always been contact between the two.

Mandatory price reporting is another big issue, and ASI is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make it work to sheep producers’ advantage. Sheep meat and lamb is such a small percentage of the meat industry that it can be difficult for the USDA to see its importance, he noted. “It is a way to put some stability back in the market, and would give us a way to combat imports.”

On that issue, and many more, he said, sheep producers have been very fortunate to have New Mexico’s Ed Avalos serving in the Administration as Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory program in the USDA. “Eddard and his undersecretary, Craig Morris, been great friends to the industry.”

As important as these issues are, the industry can’t grow without producers willing to incorporate new and different options on their operations. The rough, dry country in southeastern New Mexico is perfect for raising sheep, and that is what

ranchers have done for generations, but Wyoming works with the ranches on H2A predator loss has made it almost impossible program regulations and requirements. to stay in the business.

“There is a lot of red tape involved and it is By making some changes – utilizing expensive to get into the program, but sheep herders and incorporating a different once you get past all of that, it is worth it,” breed of sheep – two long-time sheep Crockett said. operations located southwest of Roswell, Under the program, each herder’s conthe Felix River Ranch and the Taylor Ranch tract is renewed yearly. They can stay in the have formed a successful partnership that is growing and expanding.

Ranchers Paul Taylor III and Ludwig Frasenius run a combination of Rambouillet sheep, primarily a wool breed; and Dorper cross hair sheep, a meat breed that acclimates well to almost any climate, explained ranch supervisor Vernon Crockett. When he started, they were running mainly Rambouillet sheep, but the number of wool Fine Wool sheep gradually declined, and in 2003 they Commercial Sheep purchased 300 head of the Dorper cross sheep. By December of 2011, they were THE N.M. WOOL GROWERS ARE running no wool sheep, but after doing COMING TO RUIDOSO FOR OUR SUMMER CONVENTION some research and with help from Mike Corn, brought in Peruvian herders through June 12-14 the H2A program and eventually rebuilt the Ruidoso Convention Center wool side of the operation.

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As the herd expanded, the ranchers incorporated irrigated grass pasture north of Roswell into the operation. Now, they take the older ewes from the ranch to the farm, where they are able to raise one or two additional lamb crops.

One advantage of the Dorper cross sheep is their fertility – Crockett said that their goal is to raise three lamb crops in two years. “The possibility of that additional lamb crop really helps with the economics,” Crockett noted.

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Another advantage of the farm is that it makes more options available. “When it gets dry, and we know its coming, we can move our best stock to the farm and sell what we need to on the ranch, so that when prices come back, or the drought lets up, we don’t have to completely rebuild.”

Although they are not officially utilizing intensive grazing on the ranch, having the sheep herded is kind of the same concept, he noted. The herders are very attentive to the sheep, and let Crockett know when they need to move. “When they get out in the morning, if the sheep kind of stay together and are content, he knows they have plenty of forage. When they start to stray and spread out, he knows they are getting hungry.”

The majority of the Dorper cross lambs, and some of the smaller wool breed lambs, are shipped from the ranch to ethnic markets in different parts of the country.

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Scrapie: Old Disease, New Options

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crapie is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of the brain that affects sheep and goats. The first case of scrapie was diagnosed in the United States in 1947 in Michigan. Since then, it has been diagnosed in more than 1000 flocks in this country. Currently, there are only two countries in the world that are scrapie free: Australia and New Zealand. Scrapie is an incurable disease and can be spread from ewes to lambs at birth by oral contact with the placenta and placental fluids, contaminated feeds, contaminated bedding and milk from infected ewes. Male sheep and goats can contract the disease, and may be a significant source of infection.

What Causes Scrapie?

This neurological disease is caused by an alteration in a prion protein (PrP) found in cells. The abnormal prion protein binds to normal prion protein and causes an accumulation of protein in the brain and death of nerve cells over time, leading to the appearance of clinical signs. Scrapie has a long incubation period, typically 2-5 years, followed by clinical signs of varying duration (weeks to months) that end in death.

Who is at Risk?

Scrapie can affect any sheep, but management and breed prevalence plays a role in the development of this devastating disease. The most commonly affected breeds in the US are black-faced meat breeds and their crosses. In the U.S., scrapie has been diagnosed in Suffolk, Hampshire, Cheviot, Southdown, Shropshire, Rambouillet, North Country Cheviot, Dorset, Finnsheep, Corriedale, Merino, Montadale, Columbia, Cotswold, Border Leicester, Texel and crossbreds. U.S. sheep diagnosed with clinical scrapie present with a specific gene pattern known as QQ, QK or KK at the gene location codon 171. There is also an atypical type of scrapie called Nor98. Although goats are susceptible, the genetic predisposition has not been established.

Clinical Signs of Scrapie Signs of scrapie can vary widely; infected sheep may live for months with the disease, but will ultimately die. Due to nerve cell damage, affected animals can alter their behavior, sometimes isolating themselves from the flock. Other changes include tremor of the head and neck, itchiness, and scratching and rubbing against fixed objects to provide relief. Other signs include loss of coordination, weight loss despite a

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good appetite, biting of the feet and legs, lip smacking, and gait abnormalities such as high-stepping of the forelegs, bunny hopping, and swaying of the back end.

Infected animals may appear normal at rest.

However, when startled by a sudden noise or movement, the animals may start to shake or fall down in a seizure-like state.

Regardless of the presentation (some animals may show no signs), death is always the outcome.

Diagnosing and Eradicating Scrapie A presumptive diagnosis is based on the age of onset and clinical signs in conjunction with a susceptible genetic profile. A live animal diagnosis can be made based on a rectal biopsy of lymphoid tissue even before clinical signs become apparent.

After death, the diagnosis is based on the confirmation of prion protein in the brain, tonsils or retropharyngeal lymph nodes.

Scrapie can be eliminated from a flock by sound management practices such as purchasing ewes from scrapie free flocks, avoiding commingling with other flocks, breeding for genetic resistance to scrapie, spaying genetically susceptible ewes, lambing ewes in individual pens, disposing of the placenta and associated birthing fluids in an area separate from the location of lambs, and cleaning and disinfecting any equipment that has been in contact with the placenta and placental fluids. Any ewe that dies suddenly or is euthanized for abnormal neurological behavior should be sent to the state lab for testing.

The National Scrapie Eradication Program has Changed The National Scrapie Eradication Program (NSEP) is a cooperative State-Federal-Industry program designed to eliminate scrapie from the US. The basis of scrapie eradication is on farm live animal testing of genetically susceptible sheep and regulatory scrapie slaughter surveillance (RSSS). To perform scrapie surveillance appropriately and trace affected animals, official identification of all sheep is essential.

All IDs, certificates of veterinary inspection, business records (such as bills of sale) must be kept for five years even after the animals have died, have been slaughtered or have changed ownership.

Infected animals found by slaughter surveillance or rectal biopsy are traced back to the farm of origin and any exposed or infected flocks are tested for the disease.

Exposed flocks are genetically tested to determine which ewes are susceptible to scrapie. As opposed to the complete flock eradication that took place in the past, options now exist for managing scrapie

exposed animals. These include removing the affected ewes, spaying exposed ewes or separating them from the flock and testing them annually. Under the NSEP, the USDA funds the cost of rectal biopsy testing of genetically susceptible animals and owners are indemnified for sheep removed from the flock based upon the commercial market value. All options are discussed with the USDA and the New Mexico Livestock Board and a post exposure monitoring program is implemented.

What Are the Benefits of Eradicating Scrapie?

Infected flocks can suffer significant production losses. If left unchecked, the number of infected animals increases based on lambing of infected ewes and clinical signs will develop at an earlier age, making these flocks economically unsound. Additionally, animals sold from infected flocks spread scrapie to other flocks, devastating the national sheep industry. The presence of scrapie in the U.S. affects interstate commerce and prevents the export of breeding stock, semen, and embryos to many other countries. This disease costs the U.S. approximately $20-$25 million annually.

We Need You! Although currently classified as scrapie consistent, New Mexico must maintain an effective scrapie control program by meeting its annual surveillance goals. If New Mexico loses its scrapie consistent status, interstate commerce will be restricted, financially affecting sheep and goat producers and forcing them to test in order to ship animals to other states.

Currently, voluntary (and federally funded) rectal biopsy testing may be available for sheep that meet the genetic and age requirements. Knowing the genetic potential of your flock and establishing a scrapie free flock increases the commercial value of the sheep and strengthens national and international commerce.

Interested in Learning More? The NM Livestock Board is looking to perform live animal testing on sheep between 2-5 years of age that meet the genetic profile (black-faced meat sheep and their crosses) at no cost to the producer. To participate in this program or simply to learn more about scrapie, please contact the New Mexico Livestock Board, 300 San Mateo Blvd.

NE, Ste. 1000, Albuquerque, NM 87108, 505/841-6161, or alexandra.eckhoff@state.nm.us References: www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_ diseases/scrapie/downloads/national_scrapie_ surv_plan.pdf • www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/ animal_health/content/printable_version/fs_ scrapie_recordkeeping.pdf • eradicatescrapie.org • sheepusa.org/ResearchEducation_OnlineEducation_ Scrapie

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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and free speech should always be protected, however what is lacking in society today is the development of critical-thinking skills and the decision making processes needed to reach beyond the emotional appeal coming from activist groups. On the surface the perception is that these dedicated activist groups are fighting the good fight and sacrificing themselves for the greater good, when in reality they live well and earn respectable salaries. The success of their organizations and fund raising efforts is dependent on the attention they can generate on a certain issue.

News programs are reporting about

activist issues with the information being provided by the activist organization as factual and using the activist as the experts along with celebrity endorsements furthering the “cause”. Where are the actual experts-the farmers and ranchers, the scientist, those with boots on the ground who have evidence that is completely opposite to what the public is seeing through the media?

This is where social media and blogs come in. Social media allows us to post a misleading article along with the counter argument to why the article is misleading.

Blogs allow the blogger to breakdown the false science and reveal the truth. Our very own Beef Ambassador, Lauren Schlothauer, has a blog, www.daretocultivate.com and through her blog she is able to dispel misleading media articles and reveal the truth from the Ag perspective.

I encourage everyone to check out her site and read her stories. Her latest blog titled “Dear Farmer” she has one request – please share what you do with people that don’t know. I will echo her request – please take a few minutes to tell your story, your elevator story to someone who doesn’t know and in the end, let’s be smarter than the activist. Who knows, by the time you

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Chamiza CowBelles – May 5, 2016, President Nancy Phelps called the meeting to order with 10 members and three guests present. The minutes were read and approved. The treasurer’s report was presented. As a result of last month’s discussion and motion, two banners were purchased for use in parades, booths, etc. One of the banners was brought to the meeting for all to see. Also on display was a sample of the new throw blanket. The throws are expected to be delivered this month. Nancy commented that Ag Day went well. The kids especially liked the cannulated cow and the mini horses. Gloria reported on the Kids and Kows booth. She had to focus on one aspect due to time constraints, but said the teachers would love to have us come to their classroom for a lengthier presentation.

There were six gallons of ice cream left which are being stored in Robbie’s freezer for use at a later date. Any suggestions for improvements to Ag Day should be forwarded to Sara Marta or Crystal Diamond.

After attending the Region VI meeting in Las Cruces, Nancy said the group needs to work more closely with other ag-related organizations. Prior to this meeting, most of the members perused and voted for this year’s scholarship recipient. Nancy said the quality of applicants this year made for a difficult decision. This year’s winner is Darin Welty. The written criteria will be updated for next year’s selection. Gloria mentioned that some members are not receiving the Stockman magazine. Robbie will follow-up.

Gloria also related that one of the National Beef Ambassadors this year is a young woman from New Mexico, Lauren Schlothauer. She will be attending a national convention in Washington, DC, where her room alone will cost her $400 per night.

The trip will be paid for either by Lauren herself or by donations. It was decided to donate $500. Meeting times were discussed and decided to move to 12 noon to benefit some working members and potential members. Jodell announced that the Chamiza Cowbelles are the largest donors to the local food bank run by the Episcopal Church. Jodell purchases the food with Cowbelles donations and makes sure to buy beef for protein. This month three new members joined the ranks: Susan Swaim, Linda Bierner and Krystie Wear. Welcome ladies! Marie won the door prize of free lunch. Meeting adjourned at 11:40. Submitted by Cathy Pierce

Powderhorn Cattlewomen held the May meeting with 13 members present. Ag Day held in Ft. Sumner was a success with several of the Cattlewomen helping in the 9 stations set up for the kids. Renee Grant and Kristen Wilton brought a steer and horses for the students to learn about care, and then facts about how wonderful beef is! Cindy King helped with cooking biscuits in a cast iron skillet over an open fire. Ellen Vaughan, Kelsey Mccollum and Joan Key handled the “Brand Booth” introducing kids to different brands, how to read them and then, making their own brand on paper.

Aspen Achen and Kari Henry organized the entire event. Under new business, the annual Old Fort Day Bar B Que was discussed. This is the money making project and Karen Cortese and Beverly Overton are coordinating the event. Several signed up for working and for bringing homemade desserts. Cost will remain $10 for adult, $5 for kids under 10. Kathy Reagan reported the Scholarship Committee chose Rhett Grant to receive the $500 scholarship. The group also nominated Allison Wilton for the Pat Nowlin Scholarship. Her application was sent to State Committee before deadline in April. The program was presented by Jackie Witt, NRA Certified Instructor, for NM Concealed Carry, Basic Pistol and Personal Protection program. She will be presenting a Concealed weapon class sometime in Ft. Sumner in the near future as several expressed desire to participate. Great lunch was provided and meeting was adjourned.

Joan Key, Secretary Corriente CowBelles meeting held April 27, 2016 was called to order by President Ashley Ivins at at Smokey Bear Park, with a Hotdog cook out. Willa reported that six new memberships had joined: Kristy Wilson, Melinda Wilson, Tracy Stone, Debbie Heineken, Judy Justus and Linda Chapman. Cheryl reported on all receipts and disbursements and her report was filed for audit. Terri Knight reported looking for a place to host a goat roping during the Smokey Bear Stampede. Ashley, JulieAnne and Sharon reported on Cowboy Jackpot.

Less than 20 tickets are still available to sell, food has been assigned for preparation and will be purchased, decorations are planned and everything is going well. Kim reported that she is collecting pictures and recipes.

Ashley reported that the quilt top is completed and is at the quilter. Betsy Peralta will finish the quilt and it will be on display at the Cowboy Jackpot on May 7. Please sign out raffle tickets. Cheryl reported that she has received two scholarships applications

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Carter and Sherrill Tabing. The Bucket ness: New Mexico Indian Livestock Days passed for “FFA” garnered $47. Roll Call: 12 – May 11-13, 2016 – Schedule. Lyn will man Members in attendance. It was decided to the booth at RT 66 Casino. Bosque Ag Days accept the minutes of the April 12, 2016 held May 12th and Carolyn is covering that. meeting as mailed and emailed. Treasurer Torrance County Fair will be held in August. report given and filed for audit. Lyn pre- Plans to have a drawing for a cookbook and sented her bill for Sale Item expenses. have the booth. Volunteers will sign up at Amazon bill and Caliente Design for the July Meeting. NMCGA and NM CowBelle tablecloth to reimburse Vera. Four “Thank Midyear meeting – Ruidoso June 12-14, you” notes were passed. Unfinished Busi- 2016. CowBelle meeting will be on Monday afternoon June 13 at 3:00 p.m. New Business: Report on ANCW Region VI given by Lyn and Venita. ANCW is asking CowBelles in each state in Region VI to put together a ‘hunting package’ for the silent auction for the ANCW summer meeting. Denver is the location for the ANCW summer meeting.

Date: July 12 -14 Suggestion was made that folks get on Caren Cowen’s email for the recent legislative updates. Program: Julie Carter – Her witty, funny books Cowgirl Sass & Savvy, and Cowboys You Gotta Love ‘em and she had gorgeous pictures. Announcements: Next Meeting June 14 at Vera Gibson’s home. Carolyn and Callie to help hostess. Potluck. Program: Camino Real Winery MEET AT THE VINEYARD at 10:30 a.m.

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How corrupt is government climate science?

by Ron Arnold, cfact.org

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any have suspected that U.S. political intervention in climate science has corrupted the outcome. The new emergence of an old 1995 document from the U.S. State Department to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms those suspicions, or at least gives the allegation credence enough to ask questions.

It’s troubling that a FOIA lawsuit came up empty – “no such correspondence in our files” – when the old 1995 document was requested from the U.S. State Department late last year. This raises a certain ironic question: If I have a copy of your document, how come you don’t?”

State’s response is also somewhat unbelievable because the document that fell into my hands showed State’s date-stamp, the signature of a State Department official and the names of persons still living – along with 30 pages of detailed instructions on how to change the IPCC’s science document and the summary for policymakers.

The document itself consists of a threepage cover letter to Sir John Houghton, head of IPCC Working Group I (Science), from Day Mount, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acting, Environment and Development, United States Department of State, along with the thirty-page instruction set with line-by-line “suggestions,” written by scientist Robert Watson and others.

Among the more revealing tidbits is a remark scolding a scientist for being honest about the weakness of aerosol forcing data: “We clearly cannot use aerosol forcing as the trigger of our smoking gun, and then make a generalized appeal to uncertainty to exclude these effects from the forward-looking modeling analysis.”

One instruction was to change a correct statement about warming rates into a flat lie: “Change ‘continue to rise’ to ‘rise by even greater amounts’ to provide a sense of magnitude of the extended change.”

The entire document is too convoluted and technical to summarize here, so it is at cacti.org for your detailed examination. The document posted is unchanged and unaltered in any way from exactly what I received from a well known and credible source that must remain anonymous to avoid harm or retribution.

There is evidence that the document is authentic based on a specific mention in the 2000 Hoover Institution report by S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz, “Climate Policy—From Rio to Kyoto: A Political Issue for 2000—and Beyond.”

The 1995 document raises 2016 questions about the State Department’s actions in the subsequent United National IPCC Assessment Reports. What did they do?

Where are the correspondence and instruc-

tions to change the science in all the IPCC Assessments? What is the Obama State Department doing to corrupt climate science to its forward its radical social and political agenda? Some of that is obvious.

It’s the clandestine part we need to know.

I don’t expect our government to answer truthfully. If they did, they might have to s t a r t a R I CO i nv e s t i g a t i o n o f themselves.

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NEWS UPDATE

by Randy Wyrick, www.vaildaily.com

Colorado Lawmakers Unanimously Thwart Federal Water Grab

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olorado lawmakers unanimously made federal water grabs almost impossible.

The Colorado Water Rights Protection Act passed both the Colorado House and Senate without a single dissenting vote. The bill thwarts federal efforts to control or own water that begins on or passes through federal land, and to do so without paying for it.

That’s important in our region because about 80 percent of Eagle and Summit counties are federal land, said Glenn Porzak, one of the world’s leading water attorneys.

In fact, the Eagle River Water & Sanitation District and Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority both have water infrastructure on federal lands.

Rick Sackbauer, Eagle River Water & Sanitation District board chair, called the bill “a great victory for water right holders in the Eagle River valley and throughout Colorado.”

“The authority and other water providers have made enormous financial investments in water rights and water infrastructure in reliance on state laws,” said George Gregory, Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority board chair.

Water rights trifecta Porzak with Porzak, Browning & Bushong, is water counsel for Eagle River Water & Sanitation District, Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority and many others. He worked on the bill for three years.

Porzak said the legislation does three things: 1. Forces the feds to buy water rights, instead of taking them by manipulating policy.

2. Forces the feds to go through state water court, in compliance with federal law.

3. Orders Colorado’s state engineer not to enforce any water rights restriction by the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management, and provides tools for water right holders to fight these agencies in court if necessary.

In other words, if the feds want water rights, then they have to buy them, like everyone else does.

“Water rights are a saleable commodity,” Porzak said. “They’re trying to get the water for free. This bill creates a financial disincentive. They (the feds) can issue a directive, but they do so at their peril.”

Why it began The impetus for the bill began in 2012, when the Forest Service demanded that ski areas, in exchange for renewing their leases on public land, turn over their private state issued water rights to the federal government.

The ski areas sued and the U.S. Forest Service lost on procedural grounds. The Court ordered the Forest Service to go back to the drawing board, and while improvements have been made in the context of ski area policy, the Forest Service has subsequently issued other policy directives that raise additional concerns for private water right holders throughout Colorado.

The Forest Service said it was trying to make sure water rights stay with the ski areas, and aren’t sold separately if the ski area is sold.

“This legislation is not pie in the sky. It has real substance to it,” Porzak said.

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Perhaps that’s why even an animal liberationist public opinion research group found that 84 percent of people who try to become vegetarian go back to eating meat.

Writing at National Review Online, Josh Gelernter examines some of them. While PETA proclaims that it’s unethical to place human life above animal life, consuming any human diet, even a vegan one, requires exactly that. (We’d note here that there’s nothing wrong with eating a vegetarian diet, if that’s your preference. But HSUS and PETA aren’t in the choice business—they don’t want you eating meat, eggs, and dairy.) Gelernter explains:

For one thing, most fruits, many vegetables, and many nuts require pollination by bees. And not free bees, but slave bees, who are carried from place to place in boxes, by beekeepers. Even if the bees were wild and free, though, vegetarian fare would still be the product of animal cruelty — because

all, or virtually all, produce is grown using pesticides.

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EPA’s Astounding Take-Over of State Water Law: Comment Period Ends 6/17/16

by Karen Budd-Falen, Cheyenne, Wyoming

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n a stunning display of federal over-reach, on March 1, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Geological Service (collectively “EPA”) issued a “Scientific Investigations Report” arguing that the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) can also be used to regulate the quantity (amount) of water in the Nation’s rivers and streams. According to the federal government’s logic, because stream flows can potentially effect aquatic life and because the Clean Water Act requires the protection of the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of our Nation’s waters, “National Pollution Discharge Elimination System” (“NPDES”) permits or CWA Section 401 certifications should be required when an individual, community or municipality alters the quantity or amount of water available in rivers and streams. In an area that has ALWAYS

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been left to the purview of the individual states based upon state Constitutional mandates and since a water right is a private property right, I believe that this amounts to an outright attack on state sovereignty and private property rights.

The comment period on the Draft EPAUSGS Technical Report: Protecting Aquatic Life From Effects of Hydrologic Alteration, Docket ID No. E PAHQ-OW-2015-0335 ends June 17, 2016.

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EPA’s Draft Report Arguments According to the EPA, more needs to be done to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.” Human alteration of the natural flow regime can change a stream’s physical and chemical properties, “leading to a loss of aquatic life and reduced biodiversity.” The EPA goes on to state that the human activities that can alter a stream’s characteristics include impoundments, channelization, diversions, agricultural practices, groundwater pumping, urban development, thermoelectric power generation and others. Climate change, the agency claims, exacerbates these harms.

Because the CWA requires the EPA to

protect the “nation’s waters,” the Report urges: ЇЇ First, states (or the federal government) should do more to quantify water quality standards for water flow to “protect aquatic life designated uses.” “Doing more” should include using numeric standards to quantify stream flow impacts on aquatic life. ЇЇ Second, once states adopt such water quantity standards, water quantity monitoring programs should be developed to determine if flow is contributing to water quality impairments such as altering the channel geomorphology, reducing riparian and flood-plain connectivity, causing salinity, sedimentation, erosion and temperature increases, and encouraging the invasion of non-native aquatic species. ЇЇ Because there are now numeric standards, the third step is to alter NPDES permitting programs to incorporate the new water quantity (amount) standards. Currently, the only time the EPA has included numeric standards for water quantity

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(or water flow) is for post-construction municipal storm water systems that can require the treatment of storm water run-off or require retention of a specified volume of water runoff. The EPA Draft Report would argue that this type of numeric standard setting and management should apply to all permitted activities impacting water quantity.

In the alternative, even if a state does not have any type of numeric water quantity standards in place, the EPA argues that the state can still require a CWA Section 401 certification related to water quantity. Under the CWA, an applicant for a federal license or permit to conduct any activity that may result in a discharge to “waters of

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the United States” must provide the federal permitting agency with a CWA Section 401 certification. The certification declares that the discharge will not exceed water quality standards. Since the EPA Report argues that water quantity (amount) standards should be included in a state’s water quality standards, the CWA Section 401 certification would be required for diversions or uses that may require a federal permit since the diversion or use would impact the quantity of water in a stream.

To bring this home, consider these examples: If an irrigator wants to divert water on his private land, but is applying for

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If a municipality wants to drill wells for drinking water and is using federal funds to supply clean, safe drinking water to their citizens, it would be required to get a CWA Section 401 certification because the EPA believes that groundwater pumping can impact stream characteristics.

If a rancher is working to develop additional water sources on his Forest Service or BLM grazing allotment, he would also be required to get a CWA Section 401 certification, separately

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from the BLM or Forest Service granted by the state, is a private property National Environmental Policy Act or right. Even the right to use water in a riparother permitting requirements. ian system is a private property right. And II. Reasons to Be Very Concerned while the EPA will argue that these new With this Report requirements are not prohibiting the use of The EPA’s draft report is disheartening water, giving the state or federal governon so many levels. First, the EPA’s Draft ment the ability to grant a permit under the Report is the first step in significantly Clean Water Act is giving them the ability expanding federal power over the individ- to condition the permit to meet some state ual states. The management of water or federal numeric standards simply based quality, water rights and water use has on water quantity. Additionally giving the always remained completely within the state or federal agency the ability to require purview of the state, without any interfer- a permit is giving them the chance to deny ence from the federal government. a permit.

Wyoming’s Constitution, like the constituThird, although the EPA’s Draft Report tions in most western states, provides that claims that it is merely providing a “flexible, the water of all natural streams, springs, nonprescriptive framework” and it is not lakes or other collections are the property impinging on state management of water of the state. Even in eastern states, where rights, there is an entire appendix called water rights are based upon riparian uses, “Legal Background and Relevant Case Law” water rights and uses are governed by state arguing that the Clean Water Act applies to law. The EPA’s Draft Report is the first step water quantity, not just water quality. I in advocating federal oversight of an indi- believe that this section is solely meant to vidual state’s ownership of water quantity. counter any argument from water right Second, the courts have time and again property owners that the CWA cannot be recognized that a water right, properly used to regulate water rights.

Comment period on Draft EPA-USGS Technical Report: Protecting Aquatic Life From Effects of Hydrologic Alteration, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2015-0335 ends 6/17/16.

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Finally, although the CWA has been applied to “pollutants” being added to water whether from a point source or a nonpoint source, the Draft Report advocates CWA control over the use of the water itself.

Under this theory, a state of federal permit would be required even if a water right is simply exercised.

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no way for people to survive without taking at least some animal lives. Gelernter amusingly notes that the beef from one head of cattle might spare countless bees; in fact, one Oregon State scientist proposed that a diet including some cattle probably kills fewer animals than a vegan diet.

All told, the inherent contradictions within veganism (to say nothing of the decadent pleasure-enhancing power of bacon grease) probably means that wide-eyed animal liberationists’ vows of a vegan nation by 2050 almost certainly will not come to pass.

Cheese consumption is at an all-time high. Pork is enjoying a renaissance. And a dip in prices and the popularity of the “paleo diet” has Americans turning back to beef. Bon appetit.

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Westway Feed Staffer Honored

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he American Feed Industry Association named Cathy Bandyk, Ph.D., of Westway Feed Products LLC, and Ronny Moser, Ph.D., of JBS United, Inc., its Members of the Year during a ceremony at its Board of Directors dinner May 4, in Arlington, Va. Bandyk is known for her many accomplishments with AFIA’s foundation, the Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER), as well as involvement with the AFIA Liquid Feed Committee and the Nutrition Member Interest Group and Ruminant Subcommittee. Moser was a key component in informing AFIA membership of preventative measures concerning the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.

The Member of the Year Award is presented to an AFIA member who exhibits the utmost support throughout the year to help the organization achieve its goals and objectives. With the exception of the 83 members on the Food Safety Modernization Act work group who received the 2014 Member of the Year Award, only 34 individuals prior have been honored.

Bandyk serves on IFEEDER’s Board of Trustees and played an instrumental part in the realignment of IFEEDER’s future to better benefit AFIA membership and the industry. She is part of both the research and marketing committees of the foundation, and has chaired their annual silent auction. Bandyk is also an active member of the Liquid Feed Committee, recently stepping into the role of secretary. She headed a major update of the committee’s Liquid Feed Handbook and an educational PowerPoint to share with academia and the industry.

“At the 2015 Liquid Feed Symposium, Cathy presented a liquid feed historical timeline that featured six decades of industry and individual accomplishments,” said AFIA President and CEO Joel G. Newman.

“The timeline was a perfect portrayal of the successes and advancements liquid feed has undergone and the future it holds.”

Bandyk is the technical sales and support manager at Westway Feed Products LLC, and was the former nutritionist/product manager at Quality Liquid Feeds for 13 years. Other professional affiliations include the American Society of Animal Science, American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists, National Cattlemen’s Association, a n d t h e F l o r i d a C a t t l e m e n ’s Association.

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VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE

by Barry Denton

Who is in Your Bathroom?

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everal years ago I was the show farrier at a large horse show. I worked this horse show every year because it had over 2,000 horses, it ran for almost three weeks, and was very lucrative from a business standpoint.

I had been working this particular show for about five years and since it was such a major event, the show farrier had to be on the grounds from the beginning until the end. You normally began around 7:00 in the morning and ended around midnight nearly every night. Toward the end of the show you would get very tired and punchy.

Of course, at the end of the show is when all the championships were held so there would be even more work checking toe length and checking the weight of horse-

shoes. Both of those criteria had to be met shows were marathons and you had to be or a horse could stand to lose a champion- right all the time. ship that it had just won.

One particular day at the end of the For those of you not familiar with this horse show I’m on my way to the restroom type of horse, when a horse won a champi- adjacent to where our shoeing barn was. onship the toes were measured and the Naturally you cannot even walk to the shoes were pulled and weighed to make restroom without someone wanting somesure they were legal or the championship thing, so you stop and talk along the way. would be taken away.

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We all do dumb things sometimes, but I was glad when that show was over.

Now we have a President of the United States issuing an executive order for transgender to enter whichever bathroom they wish any where. Perhaps, he is not well, but I cannot think of a reason why he would think this was important.

The statistics show that transgender persons make up less than one half of a percent of all the people in the country.

Why is this important in a country where the majority rules?

I think it has been a very effective concept that boys go to the boy’s room and girls go to the girl’s room. It is quite simple and now he wants to change all that. Obviously, he did not consider the unintended

consequences.

Are we going to give transgender persons an identification card so we know who they are? In my estimation it would open bathrooms up to perverts that want to harm females especially. When you are keeping the order and protecting people why would you voluntarily endanger them?

In my estimation this is an act of evil under the guise of being nice to transgender people. Just because I am a horseshoer, but feel like a professional baseball player does not mean that I can walk out on the baseball diamond during a game and start playing. I feel sorry for our wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters that may have to endure harm due to the stupidity of one.

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Cal Polk Rode with the Pat Garrett Posse that Captured Billy the Kid

NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS

by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author DonBullis.biz

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alvin Warnell Polk (1863-1904) was born in Caldwell County, Texas. He is not one of the better known players in the drama of New Mexico’s Lincoln County War; his name is rarely mentioned.

Even so, he was present for some of the most stirring events late in 1880 as the war wound down. At the age of 17 he joined Sheriff Pat Garrett’s posse and he was present when Tom O’Folliard was shot and killed in Fort Sumner (December 19, 1880) and when Charlie Bowdre was killed and Billy the Kid captured at Stinking Springs, New Mexico, on December 23, 1880.

Polk was also present in Las Vegas, New Mexico, when a mob attempted to take Billy the Kid and another outlaw, Dave Rudabaugh, away from Garrett and his officers (December 27, 1880). During his lifetime, Polk did not make much of his participation in these events but he did write that he and another posse member, Jim East, once they arrived in Las Vegas with Billy the Kid, left Garrett and his posse with intentions of enjoying themselves in local saloons. He told what happened next in his own words (with his own spelling, grammar and punctuation, or lack thereof): “While we was in there [a saloon] a

Mexacan com in drunk and said in Spanish to the bar tender the Mexacans is agoin to kill them prisoners up in the train. I told Jim [East] what he said and we finished up [our drinks] and started toworge the depot and when we got in sight of it, I saw there was about 300 Mexacans with all kinds of rust goons a round the cars and 2 of them had their guns Drawed on the Engineer and would not let them move.

“We broke across the street to the hotel and got our guns and when we got to the craud we held our guns down by our legs and worked our way thrue the crown as if we was passengers and when jumped on the steps we then turn and threw down on the Mexacans. I looked and saw Pat Garrett standin in the car door with his 45 in his hand. He said come in side boys and get at a winder.”

History records that one Fred Morley, described variously as a deputy United States Marshal and/or a post office detective, managed to get into the train’s engine compartment and start the train moving.

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Polk rode the train on into Santa Fe then returned to Las Vegas after Billy and Rudabaugh safely jailed. He didn’t stay long before he headed south to White Oaks.

Once there, according to his own narrative, he hooked up with noted range detective Charlie Siringo and participated in the Pat Coghlin affair which involved cattle rustling and dealing in stolen livestock on the part of Coghlin, who called himself “The King of Tularosa.” Siringo made no mention of Polk’s participation in his book A Texas Cow Boy. Polk returned to Texas after his New Mexico sojourn and remained there for a time before he moved on to Oklahoma where he became a lawman. Some family sources aver that he was the United States Marshal for Holdenville, Oklahoma, but if he was a federal officer at all, it would have been a deputy United States Marshal, but even that seems unlikely. U. S. Marshals rarely left large urban areas or state or territorial capitals; their deputies doing the law enforcement work. Polk was indeed the Holdenville town marshal and police officer when he died.

His death was an accident and an amazing story. For some unknown reason, Polk lent his pistol to a friend. The friend returned it in good time, loaded and ready for the lawman to use, should that be necessary. Polk, though, decided that he should clean the weapon before carrying it on duty, and he set about doing so. He removed five cartridges from the gun. It was a practice at the time that six-guns were carried with hammer resting on an empty cylinder for safety’s sake. (Wyatt Earp, who frequently carried his pistol in his coat pocket, once dropped his gun, loaded with six rounds, onto the floor and it discharged sending a bullet through his sleeve.) Polk’s friend, however, had loaded the pistol with six cartridges and when Polk pushed the cleaning rod down the barrel, it jammed the remaining sixth load into the firing pin and the gun discharged. The bullet drove the cleaning rod into Polk’s forehead. He died the next day at age 41. He left a wife and six children behind.

Sources: Earle, The Capture of Billy the Kid Holdenville (Oklahoma) Police Department, 5/30/11 Keleher, Violence in Lincoln County: 1869-1881 Metz, Pat Garrett, The Story of A Western Lawman Nolan, The Lincoln County War Nolan, The West of Billy the Kid Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial, 5/30/11 Don Bullis’ newest book, New Mexico Historical Encyclopedia, is now available from LPDPress.com

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NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS NEWS

by Frank Dubois

The enclave clause, the disappearing west and some good news

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lished by Congress” for their “permanent residence.” The committee issued their report. This led to several versions being considered by the Constitutional Convention, which was amended several times.

The last amendment accepted, done at the behest of the antifederalists, was to include the requirement the purchase be approved by the state legislature.

During the debate on ratification of the Constitution, James Madison wrote about the Enclave Cause in Federalist 43: The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government, carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings interrupted with impunity…The necessity of a like authority over forts, magazines, etc., established by the general government, is not less evident. The public money expended on such places, and the public property deposited in them, requires that they should be exempt from the authority of the particular State. Nor would it be proper for the places on which the security of the entire Union may depend, to be in any degree dependent on a particular member of it.

It seems abundantly clear that Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution, the Enclave Clause, is about jurisdiction, not limitations on ownership of all types of land.

However, I’m no attorney. Just a layman who is plowing through these historical documents and would welcome any comments, corrections or suggestions.

uotes from members of the Bundy family and their supporters indicate they believe Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution, the Enclave Cause, prevents the federal government from owning property within a state except for particular purposes, and then only if the feds have obtained approval of the state legislature.

That Clause grants Congress the power: “To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings…”

Unfortunately, the purpose of that clause is to authorize and set out a procedure whereby the feds could establish “exclusive Legislation”, or jurisdiction, over Are we disappearing? certain properties, not to place limits on The Conservation Science Partners, in federal ownership. Federal exclusive juris- cahoots with the enviro group Center for diction means, basically, that state laws do American Progress, has released a report not apply. titled The Disappearing West claiming 4,321 Why did our Founding Fathers include square miles have been developed in the this exclusive jurisdiction language? History 11 western states since 2001. The report gives us the answer. further states that urban sprawl, commerce In June of 1783 Congress was meeting and drilling claim the equivalent of one in Philadelphia when their meeting house football field every 2 ½ minutes. was surrounded by disgruntled soldiers So, we have another “crisis” and Conwho had not been paid. There was even gress must act. An often-used tactic to stir reports of them pointing their guns at the public opinion and help the enviro lobbywindows of the meeting house. Congress ists. And this all happens while the Park requested the Pennsylvania Executive Service is pushing their 100th anniversary Council call up the state militia. However, and the Land & Water Conservation Fund is the council refused to do so and Congress up for reauthorization. Just a coincidence, was forced to move their proceedings to I’m sure.

Princeton, New Jersey for several weeks.

According to the NRCS, the U.S. contains In response to all this, a Congressional 1.4 billion acres, 94 percent of which is not committee was formed to “consider and developed. That’s a helluva lot of football define the jurisdiction proper to be estab- fields. Do the math and you’ll see this is

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hardly a crisis.

Good News Items A Wyoming welder, Andy Johnson, built a pond in 2012 for his small herd of livestock.

Then our friends at the EPA informed Johnson he didn’t have the appropriate Clean Water Act permits and ordered him to restore the wetlands or face potential fines of up to $37,500 per day. So what did Johnson do? He sued the EPA with the help of the Pacific Legal Foundation and just this month they announced a settlement which allows Johnson to keep the pond in place, with no fines. “This is a huge victory for us as well as private property owners across the country,” Johnson said.

The Obama administration has dropped its effort to list the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species, handing a victory to oil companies, farmers and landowners in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to not appeal the decision of a federal judge in Texas, who overturned the administration’s 2014 listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species.

In Colorado, both the House and Senate unanimously passed The Colorado Water Rights Protection Act, a bill that thwarts federal efforts to control or own water that begins on or passes through federal land, and to do so without paying for it. Reportedly, the bill does three things: 1. Forces the feds to buy water rights, instead of taking them by manipulating policy. 2. Forces the feds to go through state water court, in compliance with federal law. 3. Orders Colorado’s state engineer not to enforce any water rights restriction by the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management, and provides tools for water right holders to fight these agencies in court if necessary.

And in New Mexico, the State Game Commission continues to stand it’s ground in opposition to the fed’s proposed expansion of the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program.

Here’s a great big THANK YOU to Commissioners Kienzle, Montoya, Espinoza, Ramos, Ricklefs, Ryan, and Salopek.

Till, 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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ive members of Team BEEF started and finished in 2nd Place Overall at the Shiprock Marathon alongside nearly 2,000 other marathon runners. The scenic route took runners through interesting formations, beautiful vistas of mesas and long stretches of northwestern New Mexico landscapes.

Marathoners received nutrition education in the Beef Council booth and in registration packets on how best to incorporate lean beef into their diet during training, along with beef recipes and cooking tips. Team BEEF proudly wore running jerseys during the race and awards ceremony. The New Mexico Beef Council was a co-sponsor of the Shiprock Marathon.

Team BEEF runners include; Sonia Lansing, Vangie Natachu, Charlotte Francis-Castillo, Patty Etsitty and Mamie Denetclaw.

Mamie Denetclaw commented about her experience running for Team BEEF in Shiprock, “I loved wearing BEEF during the marathon and hearing ‘BEEF’ being shouted along the course. As a beef producer and health educator, I am happy to represent our healthful product in such a popular running event”.

Bernarr Treat, NMBC Chairman, said, “Because the Shiprock Marathon has grown into such a successful and elite athletic event, and beef is an elite protein source, it makes sense to pair the two! It’s a great way to showcase that beef is a valuable fuel for our finest athletes and healthy consumers in general.”

All proceeds generated by the Shiprock Marathon benefit the youth programs of NavajoYES, a program established by the Navajo Nation to promote community wellness, lifelong fitness and youth empowerment on the Navajo Nation.

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BEEF’s Big 10 include IRON: Helps you body use oxygen; CHOLINE: Supports nervous system development; PROTEIN: Helps preserve and build muscle; SELENIUM: Helps protect cells from damage; VITAMINS B6 & B12: Help maintain brain function; ZINC: Helps maintain a healthy immune system; PHOSPHORUS: Helps build bones and teeth; NIACIN: Supports energy production and metabolism; RIBOFLAVIN: Helps convert food into fuel.

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MY COWBOY HEROES

by Jim Olson

Florence Hughes Randolph

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t four-feet six-inches and weighing in at ninety pounds, she is one of the smallest competitors the sport of rodeo has known. In contrast to her petite size, her legacy is large and has lasted the test of time.

Born, Cleo Alberta Holmes, at Augusta, Georgia in June of 1898, her father was an iron worker and farmer. He preferred the name “Florence” and thus she became known by this name the rest of her life. At an early age, Florence gained horseback experience by riding the plow horses and mules, bareback, between the stables and fields. Not much is known of her formative years other than by the time she was thirteen or fourteen, she left home and joined a Circus or Wild West show as an equestrian performer.

After a couple of years of performing, she started an act of her own dubbed, “Princess Mohawk’s Wild West Hippodrome.”

She toured with various Wild West shows until she heard about a rodeo in Calgary where there was big money to be won.

Rodeo historian, Willard Porter, wrote, “In 1919 at the Calgary Stampede, a young lady made internal headlines when she singlehandedly out rode thirteen male contestants in the Roman race riding.” That young lady was our Florence.

The win at Calgary catapulted her rodeo career. From then on, Florence competed in Roman Racing, Trick Riding and Ladies Bronc Riding (all contested events at the time), at rodeos across the United States and Canada. Rodeos first professional announcer and historian, Foghorn Clancy, called her a “Seeker of adventure.”

Florence is credited with being the first lady to master turning a backwards somersault from one horse to another while performing at full speed. She is also credited with being a ten-time world champion, although in her day there were no official “World Champions” recognized. Several rodeos throughout the country claimed their winners were the “World Champion.”

It should be noted however, that she was considered one of the best in her day and is said to have competed in over five-hundred rodeo performances.

In 1925, she married fellow rodeo performer and Wild West showman, Floyd

Randolph. Although she is best-known as Florence Hughes Randolph, prior to her marriage to Floyd, she also performed as Florence Holmes, The Princess of Mohawk, Florence Hughes, Florence King and Florence Fenton as she experienced a number of failed marriages. Florence and Floyd endured however and the couple became well-know performers. Later in life, they continued to support rodeo, becoming members of the Rodeo Historical Society.

Along about the late 1920s, Florence went to Hollywood where she doubled for movie stars, raced motorcycles and did horse and motorcycle stunts. However, in an interview Florence once said, “I had the rodeo fever, so I left Hollywood and went back to Texas.”

2016 Although a daring champion with numerous wins to her credit, she also expe-

rienced several injuries along the way. In 1971 she told an interviewer, “I’ve been carried off for dead several times.” She was actually pronounced dead in 1923 following an accident. On another occasion she was rushed to the hospital. When she awoke on the table, she heard the doctor say out loud, if she lived, she would never walk again. It is said that scared her so badly she jumped up and fled the building clad only in a sheet!

One of her most prestigious wins came at Madison Square Garden in 1927. At the time, this rodeo was considered by many to be the “National Finals” of its day. Metro Goldwyn Mayer sponsored a silver trophy for the rodeo, which was like winning a “Gold Buckle” today. This coveted trophy was won by Florence that year.

Florence passed away in April of 1971 after a long and decorated career. One of the most prestigious names in rodeo from the formative days, Florence Hughes Randolph was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museums Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1968. She was also posthumously inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1994.

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4785 JOSEFITA ROAD SE: Located in Deming, NM, 2,300 +/- sq ft House 4 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Metal Roof, 66 +/- Irrigated Acres, cement ditches, fallow ground, on-site pond supplied by irrigation well, irrigation well in great shape ran by electric, newer septic tank, Priced at $341,900 0 LALO ROAD: Located in Deming, NM, 121 +/- Irrigated Acres, Electric Well, cement ditches, fallow ground, barbed wire fence on property line, road maintenance by county, Highway 549, South Lalo Road. Priced at $394,350 SCORPIO LOOP: Located in Las Cruces, NM, 8 acres+/- of Pecan Trees, Irrigation Well, EBID Water Rights. Priced at $280,000 Call Laura @ (575) 644-0067 CHIVAS ROAD: located in Deming, NM 125+/Acres with underground water rights, 2 wells & cement ditches, 25+/- additional acres for pasture land. Priced at $325,000 MATHERS REALTY, INC. 2223 E. Missouri, Las Cruces, NM 88001 575/522-4224 Office • 575/522-7105 Fax • 575/640-9395 Cell

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Southwest New Mexico Farms & Ranches FORT FILLMORE ROAD- 5 acre pecan farm with 5 enclosed horse pens and pipe fencing. Property does not include an irrigation well but does have ground and surface water rights. Directions: Hwy 478 - east on Fort Fillmore 1/2 mile and property will be on the north/left. $159,900 20.79 ACRE COUNTRY ESTATE - The acreage contains approximately 18 +/acres of income producing pecan trees with surface & ground water rights and an irrigation well. Past production records are available. Ample storage with approximately 7,600 sq. ft. of metal buildings with 6 roll-up bay doors and over 5,700 sq. ft. of covered equipment sheds. Residence is a gorgeous 3711 sq ft +/- 2br / 2.5ba adobe main home that has been completely remodeled throughout and a large addition that looks into a meticulously landscaped back yard. Expansive master suite that has it’s own private courtyard and large walk-in cedar lined closet. The list goes on and on! One of the detached structures contains a large 1 br / 1ba apartment, indoor/outdoor dog kennels and more. This truly is a one of a kind property!

Call Dan or Jamie to schedule your private viewing today! $1,218,000

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CUNNINGHAM ROAD, LAS CRUCES, NM - 5.76 acres of mature pecans just south of town. Property has a 4” electric irrigation well & full EBID rights. $175,000 27.5 ACRE FARM IN SAN MIGUEL, NM - consists of 3 tracts (two 8 acre tracts & 11.5 ac tract) will sell each tract separately for $19,000/acre. Full EBID & irrigation well, community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to DAN DELANEY adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great REAL ESTATE, LLC mountain & valley views. Priced at $399,000

“If you are interested in farm land or ranches in New Mexico, give me a call.”

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40.23 deeded acres of great farm land 40.23 deeded acres of great farm land 35 irrigated acres!!acres of great farm land 40.23 deeded 35 irrigated acres!!

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Palomas Creek 35 Water irrigated from Palomas Creek 33 ½Water Acre Feet ground water Creek from the Palomas 33 1/2 Acre Feet ground water Side33 - roll sprinkler ½ Acre Feet ground water Side-roll sprinkler TwoSide irrigation wells , one metered roll sprinkler Two irrigation wells – one metered OneTwo domestic wellwells irrigation One domestic well , one metered Produces 10,000 towell 12,000 bales of hay One domestic Produces 10,000-12,000 per Produces year 10,000 to 12,000 bales of hay bales of hay per year MLS# 863468 MLS# 863468 per year MLS# 863468

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WAGONMOUND RANCH, Mora/Harding Counties, NM. 4,927 +/- deeded acres, 1,336.80 +/state lease acres, 2,617 +/- Kiowa National Grassland Lease Acres. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres. Substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim onto Canadian River. Fenced into four main pastures with shipping and headquarter pasture and additional four pastures in the Kiowa lease. Modern well, storage tank and piped water system supplementing existing dirt tanks located on deeded. Located approximately 17 miles east of Wagon Mound on pavement then county road. Nice headquarters and good access to above rim. Wildlife include antelope and some elk. Ranch has been conservatively stocked through dry spell. $2,710,000.

year was an exceptional growth year and this year with the lakes filling should be a good irrigation year as well. Owner financing available to qualified buyer. Significantly reduced to $550,000.

MAXWELL FARM UNIMPROVED, Colfax County, NM. 200 +/- deeded acres, 170 Class A irrigation shares, all ditch system. Most water comes off Stubblefield. Needs some work. $320,000.

MIAMI 80 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 80 +/- deeded acres, 80 water shares, expansive views, house, shop, roping arena, barns and outbuildings. Reduced to $490,000.

MAXWELL HORSE OUTFIT, Colfax County, NM 45 +/- deeded acres, 34.2 water shares, big 2-story MIAMI HORSE TRAINING FACILITY, Colfax County, home, big new steel horse barn, lots of pipe improveNM. Ideal horse training facility with large 4 bed- ments, peaceful setting, trees. 2nd Park model home. room 3 bathroom approx. 3,593 sq-ft home, 248.32 $450,000. +/- deeded acres, 208 shares of irrigation, and all MIAMI VIEW, Colfax County, NM 80 +/- deeded the buildings and facilities you need to summer acres with 80 water shares, water meter, underground your cutting horse operation out of the heat and utilities to pad with septic installed for 3 bedroom far enough south to have somewhat mild winters. home, all located ¼ mile off highway on fenced Approximately 6,200 ft elevation. Additional acreage off dedicated easement elevated building site with available. $1,550,000. large enclosed barn. Would suit a camper for the MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, NM. summer or building a dream home. Excellent views.

280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irrigation shares, 2 $260,000. center pivots, nice sale barn, 100 hd feedlot. Last

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Office 520-455-0633

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Lincoln, New Mexico: Historic Vorwerk home with 33+/- acres . Rio Bonito river with 16.5 acre feet of historic water rights dating to 1853.

Elk, mule deer, turkey, barbary sheep.

Brochure at: www.sidwellfarmandranch.com SIDWELL FARM & RANCH REALTY, LLC Tom Sidwell, Qualifying Broker 6237 State Highway 209, Tucumcari, NM 88401 • 575-403-6903 tom@sidwellfarmandranch.com • www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

*NEW* OW Ranch, Near Payson, AZ +/- 72 Deeded acre USFS inholding in the Tonto National Forest. 150 head seasonal USFS Permit June – Oct. Historic residence, guest house, foreman’s home, barns, immaculately maintained. Two – live, year round trout streams and ponds. Stunning meadow setting with majestic ponderosa pines. Sophisticated western charm at its best. $3.9M *NEW* 600 Head, Rancho el Nogal, Yepachi, Chihuahua, Mexico 16,000+/- acres w/option on adjoining 10,000 acres. Considered one of the best watered ranches in the State of Chihuahua. Receives 35” to 40” of rain a year and has two year round rivers that wind through the ranch. A rustic ranch house and set of corrals are situated at the HQ which is located 15+/- miles from Yepachi. The ranch is divided into about five pastures. $2,000,000 *REDUCED* 90 Head, Agua Fria Ranch, Quemado, NM – This is a scenic mid-size ranch with great prospects. Operating as a private hunting retreat, & a purebred Angus & Paint horse ranch. +/-1200 deeded acres, +/-80 acres of NM lease, & +/-5220 acres BLM. 4BR, 2BA, mfg. home. Trophy elk, antelope, deer. Elk & mule deer permits. Candidate for a conservation easement or land exchange with the BLM. $1,490,000 *NEW* 1450+/- Head Ranch, Vicksburg, AZ – Solid desert ranch ready to go with great improvements and excellent access. 442.54+/deeded acres, 21,814+/- acres State lease, and 257,000 +/- acres BLM grazing permit. Includes HQ with nice home, bunkhouse, tack house, workshop, and horse corrals; 17 cor-

rals with wells; shipping corrals with hydraulic squeeze and tub. Has consistently run 500 +/- head yearlong but is Rated at 1450 head. $1,498,400 *PENDING* 207+/- Acre Farm, Benson, AZ – 165 +/- acres of tillable land, currently 115 ac in irrigated pasture, fenced and cross fenced for cattle. Carrying capacity one to two head per irrigated acre depending upon management. Includes home, equipment shed, work shop, barn, shipping corrals. Shallow wells 110’ to 160’ deep two domestic wells. Close to I-10. $1,200,000 65+/- Acre Farm, Benson, AZ – 800 gpm well with a 450 gpm pump irrigating 23+/- acres of Bermuda pasture. Custom 3BR, 2 BA Home with hickory cabinetry in the kitchen, wrap around 11’ porch, large workshop with concrete floor, equipment shed and fish pond stocked with large mouth bass. $610,000 $550,000

watered with 5 total wells, 6 dirt tanks and a spring. $450,000 *NEW* +/-38 Acre Farm, Sheldon AZ – This preppers paradise includes a large 4 BR 3 BA home; canning studio; root cellar; large workshop with covered outdoor work area; irrigated pasture with 600 gpm well, fenced and cross fenced for cattle/horses; corrals; barn; chicken houses and pens; rabbit pen; garden area, fruit trees, pond and other various outbuildings. The property includes tractor implements; backhoe; and RV $410,000 *MAJOR REDUCTION* 240 Acres with Irrigation Rights, Elfrida, AZ – Suitable for hay, crops, pecans, irrigated pasture, homesite or future development. Includes 130 acres of irrigation rights, partially fenced, with corrals, & a well.

Reduced to $279,800 $215,000.

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279+/- Acres, San Simon, AZ Parcel 1, 222+/- Acres – $432,000. Parcel 2, 57+/- Acres with 5 Ac of producing Pistachio trees $150,000. Shallow water in the area. Call Harry Owens 602-526-4965

*NEW* +/-14 Ac Horse Property, Sonoita, AZ – Custom 2861 s.f. home in the Oaks with matching outbuildings including a 2-car garage w/ upstairs apartment & a charming vintage carriage house/stable. Modern 4- stall horse barn with a front portico, tack room, and wash area. Two arenas, and a round pen. Access to USFS. $795,000 *REDUCED* 20± Ac Horse Property, Pomerene, AZ – 2443± s.f., 4BR, 2 1/2 bath, home with covered porches, fireplace, pool, 2 car garage, RV barn with 15’ covered overhangs, round pen, 8 stalls – 4 covered, shop, tack room, wash area. $499,000 $485,000 San Rafael Valley, AZ – Own a slice of heaven in the pristine San Rafael Valley, 152 Acres for $380,150 & 77 Acres with well for $217,000

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

Pastures recently planted in Bermuda.

Currently running 50 head of cattle. 3 BR, 2 Bath site built home, shop, hay barn, 8 stall horse barn, unique round pen with adjoining shaded pens, roping arena. Scenic setting along the Gila River. Great set up for raising horses or cattle, hay, pecans, or pistachios, $550,000.

94 Head Cattle Ranch, Safford, AZ 200 Deeded Acres, BLM and State of AZ Grazing Leases. Desert ranch with five sets of corrals, four with wells and one with a spring. The ranch is well

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GATO MOUNTAIN RANCH: High desert recreation hunting ranch with excellent improvements. Wildlife includes elk, mule deer, bear and lion. Well suited as a corporate retreat with accommodations for at least 34 people. 389 deeded acres along with 2,602 BLM lease acres with a grazing permit for 33 AU’s. Numerous horseback and ATV trails. Owners willing to split the deeded acreage. This is one of kind. Presented in cooperation with Schrimsher Ranch Real Estate, LLC. View video at www.nm-ranches.com Price: $2,800,000

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BILLY THE KID RANCH: 3,290 acres located in the foothills of the Sacramento Mountains just 30 minutes from Ruidoso, NM. Access is gated and locked from U. S. Highway 70. Improvements include a sprawling 3 bedroom residence with an enclosed metal shop and equipment shed. Fantastic views of Sierra Blanca and the Capitan Mountain range. Sale to include cattle and equipment. Presented in cooperation with Schrmsher Ranch Real Estate, LLC. View color brochure & video at www.nm-ranches.com Price: $4,000,000

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FUSON RANCH: 280 acres located under the face of the Capitan Mountains southwest of Arabela, NM in historic Lincoln County. Access is gated and locked. Improved with one residence, maintenance shop and small barn. Water is provided by one well. View additional information at www.ranchesnm.com. Price: $400,000

Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 • Cell: 575-420-1237

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Stacie Ewing, QB/Owner 575-377-3382 // stacie@americanwestre.com

955 Acres of Cattle Ranch located just south of Springer.

Well, fenced, crossed fenced.

Ponds, Ocate River.

Horse Training facility with 77.5 acres with 77.5 acre feet of water rights.

Double-walled adobe home with horse barn, corrals, pasture, hay barn, dog kennel, & more.

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Lazy EH: Western AZ, 122.5 ac deeded, 260,000 ac BLM/State Lease. 11,500 AUM ephemeral/500 AU yearlong. 17 wells, 2 pumps on CAP canal. $875,000. Con Englehorn C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty Hunt Valley Ranch: 1,173 deeded acres & 320 acres private lease with cowboy house and irrigation well for small pasture and orchard. Located 12 miles NW of St. Johns, AZ. $595,000. Traegen Knight Tres Alamos Ranch/Farm, Benson AZ: 668 acres deeded W/200 irrigated, shallow water, 3 Pivots, present owners running 200 head yearlong. Priced at $2,250,000.

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Rogers Lake: 80 acres SW Flagstaff, adjacent summer leases may be available to sublease. $1,600,000.

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Price Canyon Ranch: 191 head Guest Ranch in SE AZ. Great improvements. $2,950,000. Walter Lane

Phoenix Con Englehorn Kyle Conway 602-258-1647 Cottonwood Andy Groseta Paul Groseta 928-634-8110 Sonoita Sam Hubbell Tom Hardesty Sandy Ruppel 520-609-2546 Tucson Walter Lane Trey Champie Vince Hutson 520-792-2652 St. Johns Traegen Knight 928-524-3740

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RANCH & FARM REAL ESTATE Scott Land Company, LLC in cooperation with Hall & Hall Auction will offer the Cucharas Ranch North – Huerfano Colorado at auction at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Check our website for info on the property and a link to the auction info.

n ARGENTINA… PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS on 176,000 ac. +/- (WE CAN DIVIDE into much smaller tracts) of choice land (beautiful land can be cleared for soybeans & corn, some cleared & seeded to improved grasses for grazing of thousands of mother cows, some still in the brush waiting to be cleared). n OCATE MESA – 100 pristine ac. +/-, located near Black Lake on state

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Leon Nance, Broker – 325/658-8978 Continuously Licensed Since 1964

Sunni Nance Gothard – Agent 325-234-2507

Email: Ranches@RanchLandCo.com • www.RanchLandCo.com

n JUST LISTED! – 37.65 sections +/- Central NM ranch w/good, useable improvements & water, some irrigation w/2 pivot sprinklers, on pvmt. w/ all-weather road, 13,322 ac.+/- Deeded, 8,457 ac. +/- BLM Lease, 2,320 ac. +/- State Lease.

n JUST OUT OF CLAYTON, NM – 2,685 ac. +/-, 2 homes, bunk house, roping & training arenas, other improvements, well managed, excellent grass. n CLOUD CROFT, NM – Otero Co. – ¾ miles of the Rio Penasco – 139 ac. +/- deeded, 160 ac. +/- State Lease, 290.27 acre feet of water rights, 2 cabins, excellent grazing, elevation from 7-7500 ft., good access off of paved road. n SAN MIGUEL CO., NM – 9,135 total ac.+/-, w/6,670 ac. +- deeded, 320 ac. +/- BLM, 40 ac. +/- State Lease, 2,106 ac. +/- “FREE USE”, well improved, just off pvmt. on co. road., two neighboring ranches may be added! n TUCUMCARI, NM AREA – 4 irr. farms totaling 1,022.22 deeded ac.

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+/- with 887.21 ac. +/- of Arch Hurley Water Rights (one farm w/a modern 2 bdrm. – 1 bath home, w/a metal roof, barn & shop) together with 1,063 addtl. deeded ac. +/- of native grass (good set of livestock pens & wellwatered). All one-owner, all on pvmt., can be bought together or separately.

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n SUPER GRAIN & CATTLE COMBINATION – Union Co., NM - well improved w/15 circles, state-of-the-art working pens, homes, barns, hwy. & all-weather road frontage, divided into 3 different farms in close proximity of each other – can divide. n DANCES WITH WOLVES COUNTRY – Union Co., NM – Pinabetes/ Tramperos Creeks Ranch – super country w/super improvements & livestock watering facilities, 4,650 deeded, 3,357 State Lease, one irr. well with ¼ mi. pivot sprinkler for supplemental feed, excellent access via pvmt. & all weather roads.

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n JUST LISTED! – 11.2 choice sections +/-, in the heart of Central New Mexico’s open, rolling grama grass country, good improvements & water, cow/calf country w/summer grazing of yearlings certainly an option, two mi. of hwy. frontage.

n QUAY CO., NM – Box Canyon Ranch – well improved & watered, 2,400 ac. deeded, 80 ac. State Lease, excellent access from I40.

n FT. SUMNER VALLEY – beautiful home on 20 irr. ac., 3 bdrm/2 bath

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Just listed north of Roswell – 250 total acres, 168.8 acres of water rights, 6 tower pivot, 7 tower pivot, side roll sprinklers, Shop with living quarters, large hay barn, hay barn and numerous outbuildings. $875,000

country home, nice combination apartment/horse barn w/2 bdrms., one bathroom/washroom & three enclosed stalls w/breezeway, currently in alfalfa, ditch irrigated.

Cherri Michelet Snyder Qualifying Broker 920 East 2nd Roswell, NM 88201 Office: 575/623-8440 Cell: 575/626-1913

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n TRADE FOR RANCH – TERRIFIC OPPORTUNITY –Swisher/Castro Co. –Select a farm of your size & choosing – we can divide 5 sections of Panhandle farmland to suit your fancy & your pocketbook, part w/sprinklers, part w/wells in place for added sprinklers, part farmed dryland w/irr. potential, feedyard, elevator & huge barns for all types of storage, on pvmt. n 30,000 HD. FEED YARD – Southeast Texas Panhandle, close to Texas & Kansas packers. Call or email for details! n PONTOTOC/COAL CO., OK – three good, solid ranches just out of Ada in close proximity, one to the other (one owner -779 ac. +/-, 1,370 ac. +/-, 974 ac. +/-), good, useable improvements, on pvmt. or good all-weather roads. Seller very motivated to buy or trade for ranch or farmland properties between Dallas & Houston, TX. Area!

Please view our websites for details on these properties, choice TX, NM, CO 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. JUNE 2016

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The Committee also heard from Michigan farmer and U.S. Army veteran Jed Welder, Farm Credit Administration board members Kenneth Spearman, Dallas Tonsager and Jeffery Hall, along with representatives of the commercial banking industry. In addition to those testifying in-person today, nearly 80 groups representing farmers, ranchers, farmer-owned cooperatives and other agribusinesses, rural infrastructure providers and rural communities submitted statements for consideration by the committee.

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Similar to the producers Farm Credit serves, the System has built financial strength in anticipation of the economic cycle through diversification in loan geography, industry and size.

“Farm Credit’s mission is to support rural communities and agriculture, irrespective of the economic climate,” said Stark. “We saw this downturn in commodity prices coming and have been building financial strength to make sure we can continue to fulfill our mission and support our customers.”

Low commodity prices coupled with high input costs are putting pressure on farmers and ranchers. Farm Credit has been working to make sure its customers have accurate information about the situation

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“Farm Credit’s philosophy on credit today is this: we know our customers well, understand and respond to their needs and work cooperatively with them to analyze and structure our transactions to give them the best chance to succeed,” said Stark. Michigan farmer and U.S. Army veteran Jed Welder also weighed in on the current economic conditions in agriculture and the value of Farm Credit.

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A Country Girl’s Musins’

by Judy Keeler

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he Nature Conservancy, Sky Island Alliance, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Wildlands Project’s agenda is similar to an intricate puzzle. Individuals must understand how these organizations collaborate together to understand how all the pieces fit within the puzzle.

Access, especially the roads that allow access, can become one of the most contentious issues elected officials must contend with on a local level. Access always provokes a very strong emotional response from both sides – pro and con.

We are now seeing a very emotional discussion playing out in our County regarding the Commission’s proposal to abandon parts of County Road 001, also known as Cloverdale Road.

The Commission believes they can no longer afford the increased costs of maintaining this road. Everyone agrees these costs have been exasperated by the increased use of this road by the Border Patrol agents as they attempt to access the U.S./Mexico border to contain the illegal

activities occurring there.

We all realize the costs of maintaining our County roads have been steadily increasing while the tax base has been declining. In an effort to become financially sustainable, the County finds itself needing to cut back on many services its citizens have come to expect, including maintaining the roads in the County’s Road System Network.

As a result, it is now being suggested that every road that runs across private land should be returned to the private landowner and/or the federal or state agency in charge of managing the land. If this new policy is applied to every road in Hidalgo County, soon the road network will become a checkerboard of private, state and federal maintenance responsibilities.

When we bought our ranch in Hidalgo County in 1979 the environmental movement was just beginning to bud in New Mexico. After the Nature Conservancy (TNC) bought the Gray Ranch in 1989, I began to question what was going on around me. Thus began my research on the Nature Conservancy and the “environmental movement”.

As maps of this area emerged from several different organizations, I began to

dig deeper. One such map, produced by the Wildlands Project, was especially intriguing.

I wondered how this organization intended to “manage” the wild lands preserve they proposed in Southwest New Mexico, Southeast Arizona and Northern Mexico. The deeper I dug the more I questioned.

After much study, I decided to write a series of articles in 1997 entitled, “The Wildlands Project Comes to Hidalgo County”. It was my attempt to educate others about this scheme. Today it has morphed into the concept of “rewilding”.

In part 16 of the articles I summarized all the tools the Nature Conservancy and their sister organizations, including the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Sky Island Alliance, would use to implement their rewilding concept.

The Sky Island Alliance initially specialized in mapping and closing roads in the forested areas. They blocked several roads in Hidalgo County’s portion of the Coronado National Forest. Then they tried to convince this federal agency to abandon these roads.

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New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau 2016 Summer Conference, July 15-16 Friday, June 15, 2016

Ruidoso Convention Center Saturday, July 16, 2016

8:00 am Board of Directors 10:00 am YF&R & Collegiate Discussion Meet Round 1 1:00 pm Welcome 1:15 pm Bruce Vincent, Keynote Speaker 2:00 pm Breakout Sessions A. Valerie Huerta – Safety First! Best practices for safety B. Benjie Segovia / Theresa Widner – Farm Bureau University: How County Boards can use goal setting and evaluation to prepare for the future C. CPR – Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation Part 1, Women’s Leadership Program (both sessions required to receive certification) 3:00 pm Break 3:30 pm Breakout Sessions A. Valerie Huerta – Safety First! Best practices for safety B. Benjie Segovia / Theresa Widner – Farm Bureau University: How County Boards can use goal setting and evaluation to prepare for the future C. CPR – Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation Part 2, Women’s Leadership Program 4:30 pm YF&R & Collegiate Discussion Meet Finals 5:00 pm Reception with Candidates 6:00 pm Dinner 6:30 pm Randy Krotz, USFRA

7:00 am CEU’s 2 Credits Pesticide Application 8:00 am “Bee the One!” NMAITC volunteer training, open to all 9:00 am General Session – Janice Person, Monsanto 10:00 am Breakout Sessions A. Dr. Scott Bender – Wildlife and domestic animal disease B. Francisco Hatay - Telling your story to raise awareness - using social media to your advantage Dalene Hodnett – No Comment - How to have a successful interaction with the press 11:30 am Boxed Lunch/Board Bus TOURS: * Hunting Lodge at Mescalero & Meat Packing Facility * Mescalero Apache Cow Camp I * Mescalero Fish Hatchery 5:00 pm Tour and Dinner at Eagle Ranch Pistachio Farm

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storage and dirt tanks, the Forest Service decided they’d better address the Sky Island’s proposed road closures in a formal process.

Wild Land proponents are passionate about their cause. They believe “human activity is undoing creation” and “the remaining degraded and fragmented lands will not sustain biological diversity”.

They also detest motorized vehicles because roads “penetrate the few remaining roadless areas”. “Extensive roadless areas—vast, self-regulated landscapes— free of mechanized human use and the sounds and constructions of modern civilization” is one of their goals.

Central to rewilding scheme is abandoning roads. Wildlanders, however, emphasize it “may be necessary to allow some roads to remain open to official use for short periods… for reintroduction of extirpated species”. However, the “majority of dirt and gravel roads … should be closed quickly.”

This rewilding concept has been embraced by many non-profit organizations, many university professors and our politicians – at every level.

As a citizen of Hidalgo County my personal advice to the Commissioners is to approach the abandonment of County Road 001 with caution. Become fully informed and acutely aware of the future costs to all your constituents. Abandoning a road is for perpetuity. It can not be undone.

If you care to read the articles on the Wildlands Project, they can be found at: www.uhuh.com/1calfraud/ stacks/judymusin.htm

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AGGIE NOTES From the Animal Resources Dept.

Cooperative Extension Service, NMSU

by Rossana Sallenave, Extension Aquatic Ecology Specialist

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Current State of NM’s Surface Waters

s I travel around the state talking to people about issues pertaining to water quality and watershed stewardship, I am often asked about the quality of waters here in New Mexico. The question is not a straightforward one, and the answer depends on the watershed, but also on the designated use of the water body in question. So here is a brief overview of the methodology and criteria used to assess the quality of our waters, the state of our waters based on the most recent available data, and mechanisms and programs used to protect and restore the quality of its surface waters.

How is the quality of waters assessed?

Waters in New Mexico, as elsewhere in the country are classified according to their designated use, and assessed as to their level of impairment based on standards that have been established through regulations in the United States Clean Water Act (CWA) and the New Mexico Water Quality Act (WQA). The standards, developed by the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC), are based on the designated use or uses of the surface waters of the state.

Designated uses include: Fish culture, industrial water supply, domestic water supply, irrigation, primary (e.g. swimming, water-skiing) and secondary (canoeing, fishing, boating) contact, livestock watering, wildlife habitat, and aquatic life. So for example, water designated for public water supply will need to meet higher standards to be classified as non-impaired than water designated for use as livestock watering.

Similar to other states, New Mexico uses a targeted, rotational watershed approach to monitor and assess the condition and quality of its surface waters. Data used to assess water quality of New Mexico surface waters are based mainly on chemical, physical, biological and habitat data collected by the New Mexico Environment Department’s Surface Water Quality Bureau (SWQB) during the following activities: Rotational surveys Water quality monitoring of projects

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under the state’s NPS (Non-point source) Pollution Management Program TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load, see below) surveys and studies Special studies conducted to address specific localized water quality concerns Analysis of fish tissues for development of Fish Consumption Advisories Water quality compliance monitoring conducted under the NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) program Long-term water quality monitoring collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at stream gages.

Based on the results of these surveys and samples, waters are characterized as meeting the standards needed to maintain their designated use or are determined to be impaired in some way. Once a waterbody is listed as impaired on the CWA Section 303(d) List of Impaired Waterbodies, the process of implementing corrective actions can be initiated. These include evaluation of the impaired waterbody to determine if more data should be collected to confirm the impairment, or whether a total maximum daily load (TMDL) should be developed. A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is a regulatory term in the U.S. Clean

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Water Act that describes the value of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a body of water can receive while still meeting water quality standards. The TMDL serves as a planning tool and potential starting point for restoration or protection activities whose ultimate goal is to attain or maintain water quality standards. Information such as land use, water quality results, modeling techniques, calculation methods, is included in the TMDL. What is the current state of New Mexico surface waters?

In New Mexico, as in other Western states, the majority of surface water quality impairments are due to nonpoint sources rather than point sources of water pollution.

Point source (PS) pollution is defined as pollution coming from any single, identifiable discharge point of pollution, such as sewage outflow pipes, or some other discrete municipal or industrial source such as water-treatment plants, factories, confined animal feedlots, or combined sewers. Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground, picking up natural and human-caused pollutants, which are then deposited into rivers, lakes, wetlands and ground water. Polluted surface runoff from urban, suburban, and agricultural areas, highways, forestry and mining operations, and boating activities all contribute to NPS pollution. From the approximately 7,710 stream miles in New Mexico, nearly 4,170 assessed miles, or 54 percent, have identified impairment(s) where water quality does not support the designated uses.

Based on all the available data and established assessment protocols, the Department of Environment has found that the three most common causes of stream and river impairment in New Mexico are temperature, nutrient/eutrophication, and E. coli. The leading probable sources of impairment are to New Mexico’s rivers and streams are rangeland grazing, onsite treat-

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ment systems, and loss of riparian habitat.

Out of the 94,415 acres categorized as publically-owned lakes, reservoirs, or playas, about 66,143 (65 percent) do not fully support their designated uses. Fish consumption advisories for a number of fish species have been issued in 26 lakes and reservoirs as well as in three rivers due to elevated levels of a number of contaminants in their tissues. The contaminants include mercury, DDT, and PCB. The three most common causes of water quality impairments in lakes and reservoirs are mercury in fish tissue, PCB in fish tissue, and temperature. Although probable sources for these impairments are currently listed as unknown because the state has not yet written any lake TMDLs, it is likely that the dominant probable source will continue to be atmospheric deposition of toxics, as was reported in the 2012 Integrated Report.

What mechanisms exist in New Mexico to protect and restore the quality of waters?

The principle mechanism used to protect surface waters from Point source pollution is the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting program. In New Mexico, these permits are issued and enforced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Region

6 office in Dallas, Texas. Once the NPES permits are issued, New Mexico Environment Department assists the USEPA with permit compliance tracking on-site inspections to ensure that the permit limits for discharge into surface waters protect state water quality standards.

The New Mexico Nonpoint Source Management Program (NPS Management program) led by the Environment Department develops programs and actions to prevent and abate NPS pollution. The department gives priority to waterbodies that are listed as impaired. The program helps select the appropriate BMPs (Best Management Practices) for identified pollutant sources. Examples of natural, low cost BMPs include protecting vegetation on banks or in riparian buffer strips, reconnecting channels to floodplains, restoring channel forms to accommodate sediment inputs, and promoting infiltration of runoff in upland and urban settings. You can read more about successful restoration efforts of the Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Program throughout New Mexico in the WQCC-Approved 2014-2016 CWA Integrated Report listed below.

References cited New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau 2014. Final 2014-2016 State of New Mexico Clean Water Act Section 303(d)/ Section 305(b) Integrated Report. www.env.nm.gov/ swqb/303d-305b/2014-2016/2014-2016NMReport. pdf National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) www.epa.gov/npdes New Mexico Environment Department/Surface Water Quality Bureau (NMED/SWQB). 2014.

New Mexico Nonpoint Source Management Program. www.env.nm.gov/swqb/wps/ Plan/2014NPSPlan.pdf

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Meet Randell Major, NMCGA Southwest Region Vice President

by Callie Gnatkowski Gibson

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andell Major’s family has a long history in New Mexico agriculture and he is proud to be doing his part to maintain that tradition, both as a rancher himself and as Southwest Regional Vice President for the New Mexico Cattle Randell Major Growers’ Association (NMCGA).

Major, who took office in December, runs commercial crossbred cattle using noted. “I joined, became active, and have Charolais bulls on the Rocking R Ranch in been participating ever since.” southwestern New Mexico, which includes Between Wilderness designation, reinparts of Catron, Socorro and Cibola troduction of the Mexican Grey Wolf, and counties. water issues, he has felt the impacts of govMajor’s great-grandfather Nelson Field ernment overreach. “I remember when the came to New Mexico in the 1800s. He even- US Fish and Wildlife Services assured us that tually ranched north of Magdalena, and they would not expand the wolf numbers served as State Land Commissioner in 1918. here in Catron County. Now they are Major’s grandfather, Malcolm Major, worked expanding the number of wolves and the on several area ranches before establishing territory,” he continued. “In mid-May, the his own ranch in 1910. His parents, Buddy county trapper called two days in a row to and Helen Major, were also long-time area let us know there is a wolf within two miles ranchers. of our cattle. I know this is just the beginParticipating in the NMCGA is nothing ning, and am worried about how we’re new. Both his parents and grandparents going to protect our cattle.”

Fighting threats to the industry, and were members and Randell grew up going to meetings and conventions and having a protecting the ranching way of life for the good time, he said. Things got more serious future, are what make belonging to associthough, when he bought his first Bureau of ations like the NMCGA so important, he said.

Land Management (BLM) permit ranch in “We are struggling to survive as a result of 2000 and really started to understand what policies and regulations being imposed. If the government was doing. we want our children to carry on with agri“I figured our way of life was under attack, culture we need to head off these bad and knew that Cattle Growers was a voice policies,” he explained. that would help with the challenges we Often, people don’t realize just how were having with the Government,” he much they are being impacted. “We don’t

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see what’s happening, but these new policies are slowly changing things and taking our lifestyle away, until we wake up one morning and wonder what happened,” he explained.

Major and his five siblings grew up on the family ranch. He graduated from New

Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), and while in attendance, participated in Mounted Color Guard and high school rodeo. He still loves to rope, especially with his kids.

He attended New Mexico State University (NMSU) before going to work. Prior to buying his ranch, he worked for Farr Cattle

Company, Socorro Livestock Market, and as ranch manager for Acoma Land and Cattle Company.

Like many in agriculture, Randell and his wife Lynn had to adjust to make the economics of ranching work over the years.

Lynn has a full time job in town, and Randell has a New Mexico real estate license and works as a ranch broker.

Major served two terms on the Magdalena Board of Education, and is a member of the New Mexico Federal Lands Council and the Datil Cowboy Christian Church.

He has four children: Helen Dean, who lives with her husband Brian Dean in Socorro; Audra Collard and her husband Shane Collard live in Silver City; Randell Lane Major, who recently graduated from New Mexico Military Institute with High Honors, and Matthew Major, a sophomore at Magdalena High School, who is currently active in high school rodeo.

“Cattle Growers is a voice for ranchers, fighting the threats against us that we’re going to have to continue to fight if we are going to survive. I urge anyone who hasn’t joined to join, come to a meeting, and make their voice heard.”

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DRUG-RESISTANT << cont from page 42 of the carcass at risk of harbouring pathogens.

“Our findings suggest the gauntlet of measures to kill pathogens also protects the consumer from antimicrobial resistance genes because they, too, are unable to survive,” says co principal investigator Keith Belk.

“We need to expand our thinking in this area, and develop new and improved methods to better understand how antibiotic use drives a complex network of genetic modifications within entire microbial communities,” he says.

Environmental routes of exposure are much harder to trace and have been largely overlooked by researchers and policy-makers. While many of us never step foot on working farms, we are physically connected to agriculture via wastewater run-off and windborne particulates. The scientists suggest investigating wind patterns and water flow to see if, and how, resistant bacteria may be disseminated, and how far.

“We may find that such dissemination is very limited geographically, or we may find that resistant bacteria can travel long dis-

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tances if they find the right currents or the right waterways. In either case, this would be very important information from a public health perspective,” says Noyes.

The researchers collected samples from 1,741 commercial cattle. The study started in feedlots, where intensively farmed cattle are moved after grazing. A feedlot consists of outdoor pens where cattle are fattened during their final months of life. Samples were also taken during slaughter and from market-ready products. No previous studies have tracked antimicrobial use and resistance right through the beef production process. The team found no resistance genes to any bacteria in market-ready beef products.

They did discover changes to antibiotic resistance genes in the guts of cattle during their time in the feedlot. The changes could be due to the use of antibiotics in feedlots but could also result from adjusting to a high-energy diet or from the cattle’s maturation from adolescent to adult.

The diversity of genes in their ‘resistome’ decreased. A resistome is the collection of antibiotic resistance genes in a given environment, be it the gut of a cow or a sample of soil or water. The decrease could present an opportunity to suppress it further during

the feeding period and move towards the lowest risk possible.

“The next challenge is to identify what is really driving the change we saw and to determine whether these drivers need to be modified and, if so, how,” says Noyes.

“Any changes need to be balanced with

the ability of agriculture to produce enough safe, affordable food for a rapidly changing population. What concerns us most is ensuring that rational, science-driven discussion drives progress,” she says.

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THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE

by Baxter Black, BaxterBlack.com

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Public Signs

ublic signs and announcements are often unclear. Hidden meanings lurk beneath even the simplest directive. I’d like to propose that some government agency be assigned the task of rewriting them. Fer instance: An announcement heard frequently in major airports SHOULD say: “Your attention please. The solicitation of funds by religious groups, Moonies, animal rights fanatics, perverts, sickies and other weirdos is not sponsored by the management of this airport or the airlines.”

See… say what you mean.

“This parking space is reserved for handicapped persons. If you are parked here and can walk away from your car without the aid of a cane …it may be the last time.”

“CAUTION: The surgeon general has determined that smoking will cause your lungs to look like Alpo, make your clothes and hair stink, take ten years off your life and make kissing you as

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pleasant as licking an ashtray.”

“Beware of Dog. We are sick and tired of uninvited guests and couldn’t find a sign that said ‘Beware of Armed Sniper in the Lilac Bush.’ ” Parking for customers only: Violators will be crushed and melted.”

“EPA est. 25-mpg city, 30-mpg hwy. These are estimates and your mileage may vary because the EPA, like most government agencies, is incapable of making a decision and since THEY ran the test they’re probably not reliable anyway.”

“Not Responsible for Hats and Coats: there’s no accounting for the bad taste some of our customers have in clothes.”

“No Shoes, No Shirt, No Money, No Service.”

“For Sale: Good cow dog: $1,000. Will consider trade for two $500 cats or a high school graduate with no intention of going to vet school.”

“HOME COOKING: Today’s Special: leftovers microwaved to perfection just like you get at home.”

“No Hunting or Trespassing: Violators will be shot, ground into chorizo and fed to the feral hogs.”

“EASY-MONEY PAWN SHOP! We lend cash on anything of value! All we require is proper identification and a member of your family as collateral.”

And finally, I’ve eaten at some restaurants where the sign on the door should have said, “Sorry, We’re open!”

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Lazy Way Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Manford Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Manzano Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Mathers Realty Inc. / Keith Brownfield . . . 43 Merrick’s Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Mesa Tractor, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 40 Michelet Homestead Realty . . . . . . . . . . 47 Chas S. Middleton & Son . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Monfette Construction Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Paul McGillard / Murney Associates . . . . . 47

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