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VOL 80, No. 6

USPS 381-580

TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN Write or call: P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 Fax: 505/998-6236 505/243-9515 E-mail: caren@aaalivestock.com Official publication of: ■

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org; 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; President, Jóse Varela López Executive Director, Caren Cowan Deputy Director, Zach Riley Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584 President, Marc Kincaid Executive Director, Caren Cowan Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost

F E AT U R E S by Carol Wilson

Sheepman of the Year Mike Casabonne

USDA Taps Molly Manzanares as State FSA Director

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Maynard

Colostrum: Liquid gold for kid goats and lambs by Dr. Tom Earleywine, Director of Nutritional Services for Land O’Lakes Animal Milk Products

How Fair is the Endangered Species Act to the American Land Owners? by Locke Ann McIvor, Fort Davis High School & Sul Ross State University

True Tails of a Ranch Wife

Mainstream media don’t know Big Green has deeper pockets than Big Oil by Ron Arnold, Washington Examiner

by Betty Martin

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N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter

News Update

EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING

New Mexico’s Old Time & Old Timers

Publisher: Caren Cowan Publisher Emeritus: Chuck Stocks Office Manager: Marguerite Vensel Advertising Reps.: Chris Martinez, Melinda Martinez Contributing Editors: Carol Wilson Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson, William S. Previtti, Lee Pitts Photographer: Dee Bridgers

N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle

N.M. Federal Lands Council News

Aggie Notes

To The Point

In Memoriam

My Cowboy Heroes

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View from the Backside

On The Edge of Common Sense

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Market Place

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ON THE COVER . . . Sheepman of the Year Mike Casabonne, Hope, New Mexico. Photo by Carol Wilson

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by José Varela L ópez NMCGA PRESIDENT

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Dear Fellow Members and Industry Supporters, t seems that government overreach has been in the news a lot lately on the national stage. Unfortunately, New Mexico took to that stage in May when President Obama, at the request of our US Senators, utilized the Antiquities Act and his pen to place a national monument designation on nearly half a million acres in Doña Ana County. While national monuments are not a bad thing the way this one came to be certainly was. This monument designation is troublesome on many levels, not the least of which was the unilateral heavy handed action by Washington that subverted the legislative process which could have addressed the informed input of local stakeholders. Instead, the national monument designation ignored those opinions in favor of the environmental activist wish list. To say that this designation was an “in your face” affront to the traditional land managers of the county would be an understatement. Additionally, the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument is inconsistent with the Antiquities Act which calls for designating the “smallest compatible area” in creating a monument. The Organ Mountains Desert Peaks is actually more than five disparate areas in Doña Ana County which in my opinion should have been considered separately. The only thing these different land masses have in common is that they collectively stand to negatively impact local law enforcement, border security, watershed management and recreational access in those areas. There are also close to 100 longstanding ranching families whose lands and livelihoods, customs and culture, will be irreparably compromised in a taking of their property and rights by the federal government. Their losses alone heavily outweigh the purported revenues associated with increased tourism resulting from the national monument designation. Hopefully, the management planning process to be undertaken by the Bureau of Land Management for the national monument will provide the opportunity for the citizens of Doña Ana County to provide the input they have been denied thus far. I would also hope that the process would merit an Environmental Impact Statement, given the major issues which need to be fully addressed, instead of an Environmental Assessment such as what is being undertaken on the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico and is a less thorough process. If you’re prone to self-aggravation, as I frequently am, you might want to read the scoping report summarizing public comments received about how the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument should be managed. Many of the comments pertain to issues which have absolutely nothing to do with the management of a national monument, which once again proves that a legislative process is more responsible than environmental activism. In another case of governmental overreach the United States Forest Service in the Sacramento Ranger District of the Lincoln National Forest has decided to fence off an area of stream which has historically served as a watering place for cattle. The fencing project, which still allows for access to deer and elk is ostensibly meant to both create and protect habitat for the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse. As of this writing the mouse species in question has neither been listed as a threatened nor endangered species, nor does it have any designated critical habitat. What’s even worse, the forest service is preventing the allotment owner from legally accessing their private water right, and is using that water for their own purposes, and illegally, in my opinion. On a much more positive note, I wanted to let you know that Emily Ferranti of Datil, and recent recipient of a Young Cattlemen’s scholarship, has just completed her freshman year at Oklahoma State University. Emily is studying Animal Science, making the President’s Honor Roll by maintaining a 4.0 GPA during her first two semesters of study. In closing, I hope that the Good Lord continues to provide us not with what we want, but with what we need, and that includes rain. Until next time . . .

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ike Mike Casabonne handles the pile of wool with sure hands. He knows its grade and staple length at a glance and can estimate the yield of clean wool by the feel and weight of the fleece between his fingers. He has handled thousands of such fleeces, his own and those produced by his neighbors and friends. With his hands busy skirting the fleece, his mind stays busy. He needs to check the pipeline on the east side of the ranch. Water levels are low and he can’t afford to lose a tank. Boundary fences need to be ridden, because keeping coyotes out of the flock is the first priority. There is a mechanical problem in the feed pickup. If he gets the Super Cub out at first light, he can check waters before he runs into town for a meeting. His mind returns to the shearing barn, where the heavy winter coats are being sheared off of his ewes and his friends, family and neighbors are helping skirt, class and bale the fleeces. Family is here, his son and daughter and nieces and nephews, cousins and aunts and uncles. So are neighbors, the men and women who, like him, make their living from the land and the livestock. Amid the noise and controlled chaos of the shearing shed, Mike is at home. He grew up in the shearing shed. He learned in the pastures, from the saddle and at the family dinner table. He absorbed the lore of the stockman from the previous generation and in turn has taught his children the tenets of stewardship and service. It was a surprise to no one but him when Mike Casabonne was named the Sheepman of the Year by the New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. (NMWGI). The quiet, modest man from Hope was surprised when a gathering of Wool Growers in Roswell honored him as their

Sheepman of the Year. Though he has spent countless hours – and driven even more miles – to provide leadership in the sheep business, his community and all of New Mexico’s ag industry, his service is so innate that he doesn’t realize how much he gives to the rest of agriculture.

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Truly, in Mike Casabonne courses the blood of a stockman. Generations of Casabonnes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have cared for livestock. It is the blood that caused three of Mike’s grandparents to leave a village in the Pyrenees Mountains of Southwestern France, cross an ocean and a continent, and tend livestock in the territory of New Mexico. The tenacity, hope, and stubborn optimism

that carried those ancestors through the Great Depression and two World Wars still courses through Mike’s body. The blood ran true as he volunteered time and resources to better his community, his family and agriculture. Hope beat in tune with his heart as he waged war against the predators who were slowly killing the New Mexico sheep industry. It was only three generations ago, just over 100 years, when Mike’s grandfather, Jack Casabonne, and his brother Pete immigrated to America. The year was 1907 and Jack was 17 years old. Another Frenchman gave Pete and Jack their start herding sheep in the Artesia area. Just three years later, in 1910, Felix Cauhape, Mike’s maternal grandfather, left Lescun to come to America and make a life as a sheep rancher. Felix corresponded with Marie Rose, a young girl from his village, and proposed marriage through the mail. Marie Rose left the green, beautiful village at the age of 27 to join her intended in the harsh, unforgiving landscape of New Mexico territory. Over the next 100 years, the Cauhape and Casabonne families raised sheep, cows and kids near the small village of Hope, New Mexico. Jack’s son, George, married Felix and Marie Rose’s daughter, Marie Elizabeth. George and Marie Elizabeth set a standard of production efficiency that the rest of the New Mexico sheep industry tried to emulate. The Casabonne flocks consistently had a 115 to 125 percent lamb crop and a reputation wool clip. George and Marie Elizabeth’s four children learned by doing. Memories of those years include fun times in the shearing shed and dogie lambs on the back porch. Mike knew, from an early age, that he

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wanted to be numbered among the men and women who fed the world. Young blood

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for Shelly Gaye and the Nightlifers. The money was good and the band got to wear polyester suits for their gigs, but when Mike expressed his desire to further his livestock skills as a part of the Livestock Judging Team, the band became part of history. The Casabonne family had always run sheep on pasture and sold their feeder lambs in the fall, and George had taught Mike everything the young man knew

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about being a sheepman. But Mike wanted to learn more about the lamb feeding part of the business, so after graduation from NMSU he loaded all his belongings in a car and drove to Wyoming to work for the YO Ranches, a cutting-edge, vertically integrated sheep operation. “They were going to haul in hay and grain and ship out boxed, frozen lamb.” Mike said. “It would

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have been quite a deal if it had worked, but like so many good ideas, funding was depleted before the operation really got off the ground.” But young Casabonne had attracted the attention of Dr. Dewey Brown, one of the top feedlot veterinarians in the country. Dr. Brown invited Mike to work for him in a lamb feeding facility near Greeley, Colorado. Mike stayed with the Browns for two years and got a first-hand look at the different management systems of various feedlots and learned philosophies and management practices which he still uses. Mike returned to New Mexico to help at the Casabonne home place. His Aunt Madlyn Cauhape was president of the New Mexico Wool Growers in the late 1970s and she put Mike on the Wool Show Committee. “That was how I got started in Wool Growers stuff,” he reminisced. “I wasn’t smart enough to know that if you are young and show an interest, they will stick you on everything.” Madalyn was also a Cattle Grower and did a lot of traveling to represent the industry. “She would ask me to drive her to a Livestock Board meeting or a Cattle

A long friendship . .. Mike Casabonne and Pete Gnatkowski classing the wool in the Casabonne shearing barn. Pete and Mike roomed together in college. As sheepmen, they and several other sheepmen traveled to shearings to help sort, grade and class their clips.

Growers meeting,” Mike remembers. “She was getting me involved in some things that ended up being a big part of my life from then on. She was a big influence on me.” Another individual who changed Mike’s life was Lloyd Treat, who ranched northwest of Hope. One day, Lloyd invited the Mike to come over and talk to him. Lloyd and Ethel had no children, and Lloyd said that if Mike was still interested in finding a place of his own, he would be willing to talk to him. “I put together some figures and came over and shared them with Lloyd. He said,

‘That looks pretty good. Here is what we are going to do. I’m not ready to sell yet, but I want you to go home and figure out a lease deal.’” Mike went home and figured a lease and came back to present his figures to Lloyd. Lloyd again said, “That looks pretty good. Here is what we are going to do.” Lloyd offered Mike a lease on the place and Mike paid Lloyd and Ethel a percentage of what he made. “The deal he made me was better for me than my own figures,” Mike recalls. “He always told me not continued on page 18

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slowly, “If it hadn’t been for Lloyd, I wouldn’t have had a chance to get started,” he commented. “I always believed that Lloyd to worry, that he would sell this place to thought A.C. Hendricks had done him a me at a price I could afford to pay. And he favor by selling the ranch to him when he did. We leased the place for about 10 years was young, and he wanted to do the same and then bought it.” for me.” Mike leaned back in his chair and spoke Another life-changing mentor was Mike’s uncle Felix Cauhape, who had three daughters who weren’t interested in flying and a son who was too young to learn. Felix was a superb pilot who told his nephew that if he wanted to fly, he would supply the plane. Felix not only taught Mike to fly a Super Cub, but soloed him over the ranch before an instructor would let him solo in town. Mike put the plane to good use on the ranch, checking waters, counting sheep and killing coyotes. “We couldn’t kill all the coyotes from the Super Cub, but it helped,” Mike commented. In the rare moments that the Wool Sale at the Artesia Wool Coop. Rick Wertheimer of young rancher wasn’t working, the ASPC, John White and Mike Casabonne discuss a he enjoyed square dancing and fleece. John White always sheared his own flock and had met Dwanna, his future wife, the highest selling clip in New Mexico.

at a square dance. In a few years, Kami made the couple a family. Later, Kellen completed the family. As they raised their family, Mike and Dwanna watched the years go by in a blur of shearings and county fairs, family gatherings and reunions of friends disguised as a marking or a lamb working. Through it all, family involvement in the sheep business was a constant. At his last shearing, Mike’s father noted that all of his grandchildren were working together in the big barn, skirting wool. Kami and Kellen both showed sheep. When Kami started high school and took on sports and FFA activities, the Casabonnes bought a little house in Artesia where Dwanna and the kids lived during the week. “They would get home too late and leave too early if they tried to participate from the ranch,” Mike noted. “It was the only way the kids could be involved in high school activities.” Dwanna took a job, which she held 12 years, to get both Kami and Kellen through college without debt. When Kellen graduated, he moved home to the ranch on the Felix River. Kellen spent two

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seasons as the lead saw on the Bonneville Hot Shot crew, fighting fires with the best of the best before he moved home back to the Felix River. Mike says Kellen is now the foreman of the Treat ranch and Mike is just his helper. Ovine bloodlines

Mike purchased livestock as well as land from Lloyd Treat and continued to improve the flock, which was based on a Columbia cross with Debouillet blood infused. In an average year the Casabonnes marked a 102 to 105 percent lamb crop and weaned an 80 to 85 pound feeder. Mike is known as a man who studies and isn’t afraid to try new things. He was on the wool council when they started the skirting and grading program and was one of the first to implement the program on his own ranch. “When we started preparing it properly, prices started edging up to Australian clean price levels,” he noted. “I don’t think that would have happened if we hadn’t started classing and grading and baling our wool according to international standards. Competition is the name of the game. When you sort your good stuff from your bad stuff, it will be to your advantage. The warehouse can sell better if the grower has graded, sorted and baled his wool.” Neighbors and friends from sheep outfits hundreds of miles away shared the labor of classing and baling wool, often traveling from ranch to ranch following the shearers. “It was a lot of work,” noted Mike. “But it was a lot of fun.” Pete Gnatkowski was Mike’s roommate in college and came often to help class the wool. “Mike was one who did a lot of work to improve New Mexico’s wool clip,” noted Pete. “He brought over an Australian wool baler and a classer to show us how to sort the wool into uniform lots which would sell better as a more uniform product. That helped everyone.” The concept of selling lambs directly to the retailer was being done by New Mexico producers twenty years ago, again because of Mike’s leadership. Fellow sheepman Steve Lewis noted “Mike had this group of producers raising range raised lambs and selling those lambs to Wynn Dixie in the southeastern United States. Everyone is doing it now, but Mike was the one that got us started 20 years ago.” Mike, with typical modesty, wanted to make sure that Steve

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As Mike was raising his family and building his ranch, he always took the time to help others, whether it was volunteering as a local fireman, coaching a 4-H wool judging team or heading to Washington to testify for public lands ranchers. The men and women who helped shape him were his father, George, from whom he learned how to run and raise sheep. Preston Means was another good stockman from whom Mike learned a lot of lessons. Lloyd Treat gave Mike a chance to get his own place, and Madlyn Cauhape got him involved in Wool Growers and Cattle Growers. Bud Eppers taught him about politics and policies and federal lands issues. “All the people that I grew up looking up to did things for others,” Mike commented. “My Dad was on boards and believed in doing your part and supporting the ones who support the industry. I knew that I wanted to be a rancher like these guys that I grew up respecting, and I wanted to give back, because that is what makes life worthwhile.” Mike has served as both president and vice president of the New Mexico Federal Lands Council, and received the Bud’s Contract award in 2008. In 2011, he was named outstanding Departmental Alumni by NMSU’s Department of Animal and Range Sciences. Mike was involved in the Artesia Wool Warehouse for many years and served as president of the New Mexico Wool Growers from 1985 to 1986. He was continued on page 21

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Wool Growers president when Wool Growers and Cattle Growers met together as a Joint Stockman’s convention, the second time ever and the first time since 1917. Mike also serves on the board of directors of the Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative and First American Bank in Artesia and served two terms on the Artesia School Board. The old saying, “If you want something done, ask a busy man,” is appropriate when applied to Mike. “Most people don’t realize how busy ranchers are,” noted Mike’s brother, Tom. “Mike is always working on livestock, machinery, wells, bookkeeping, or something else. But he also makes time to be active in livestock and grazing organizations. It is a big priority for him that ranchers work together for their own good.” “He is a selfless person who is always willing to do anything that would help the industry or the community,” noted Pete Gnatkowski. “If he has a fault, it would be that he can’t say no to people who need his help.” Rosemary Shafer, Mike’s sister, noted, “Mike stays well informed on legislative issues related to agriculture and has the ability to clarify complex and confusing issues for others with an understandable explanation.” “He has good judgment,” Rosemary added. “He reminds me of our Dad because he seems to always know the right answer to most any question on most any topic.” Mike’s peers agree. Bebo Lee has had

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Mike helps Kami halter a show lamb. Mike purchased Lloyd Treat’s sheep when he bought the ranch. Most New Mexico sheepmen crossed the fine-wool Delaine with Columbia and Rambouille and some black-faced sheep to get a fine-wool, dual purpose sheep. Mike bought a lot of his bucks from the Cauhape place.

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many occasions to work with Mike on public land issues. “I am always impressed by how well-spoken and articulate Mike is,” Bebo stated. “He can make his point very well to whomever he is talking. I am not saying that Mike is comfortable going out into the public, I’m just saying that he is well equipped. And he does it. That takes away time from his family and his business and everything else, yet he remains willing to do it.” Lewis Derrick is another rancher who got to know Mike because both showed up at meetings dealing with issues of water or federal lands. Lewis has been impressed by Mike’s calm assessment of situations. “He

is quiet a lot of the time but when he speaks, he has a lot to say and makes sense,” Lewis stated. “He doesn’t just represent himself. He does it for other people. He protects the industry as a whole.” Steve Lewis has not only bought Mike’s lambs for years, but also appreciated Mike’s leadership. “Mike is just the best guy ever. He is one of the best ranchers we have in New Mexico, a top livestock man, a good family man, and a strong political man. He takes care of all the political issues, his family and his ranch, and he has a lot of country to take care of. So he is just a whipping and a spurring every day.” Mike served New Mexico as Wool Growers president and also was active nationally when the American Sheep Producers Council was combined with the National

Wool Growers Association into the American Sheep Producers Association. It took lots of meetings and lots of phone calls. Mike had to be gone from home. “The kids were little,” he remembers. “It was a lot of work, but Dwanna and the kids handled it. They always took care of stuff here at home when I had to be elsewhere.” David Kincaid grew up hearing his cousin call Mike’s parents “Uncle George and Aunt Lizzie” so David called them by those names as well. David has neighbored with Mike, run sheep on the same land, and been as close as “almost family” all his life. “Mike is more diplomatic when dealing with the public than I am,” David stated. “He is fair in his dealings and pretty conscientious about what he does. I don’t know how he finds the time he does to work on some of the stuff he does and still take care of his business.” “Mike just wants to make things better for everyone,” Pete Gnatkowski continued. “He doesn’t really expect any credit for what he does. He is just interested in helping. He is progressive as far as new ideas that might work. He also is one of those guys who thinks about stuff. Everyone has a lot of confidence in his judgment, which is why he wound up on so many boards.” Flesh and blood

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the men who had defined themselves as sheepmen remembered that they had always been, and still are, stockmen. Mike and Dwanna, along with all of “Mike made the change that had to be their friends and neighbors, had to change made,” noted Marie Elizabeth, his mother. their outfits from sheep and cattle ranches “Change is constant.” to cattle ranches. That in itself was a chalWhat hasn’t changed is Mike lenge. Cattle drink more water, so adjust- Casabonne’s commitment to rural life. He ments had to be made. Corrals had to be still stewards the land and helps his neighretrofitted because cattle are bigger. And bor and leads the way with a studious attention to detail. He and Dwanna enjoy working with Kellen on the ranch and look forward to every visit they get with Kami, her husband Stevie, and their granddaughter Addison. They employ cutting edge technology to skype with Addison, who has learned to tell her grandparents to “turn on the ‘puter!” This man who learned to be a stockman from so many great role models has himself become a role model to Shearing bucks ...back when they thought it was a fun the countless 4-H kids he thing to do. Pictured are Myrnie Cauhape, Mike has taught, rural families he Casabonne, Billy Brainerd and Terry Chester.

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part of a judge, with his habitual taciturn expression, his backbone ramrod stiff, and a wavy beard that spilled onto his chest.” He also had a crippled right hand, the result of a wound from a bowie knife. Even though he had difficulty in writing, he distinguished himself by his lyrical pronouncements from the bench. In one 1854 case which involved some questionable documents, allegedly stolen, in a land grant adjudication case, the justice asked: “How, and when did, it [the grant document] desert its secure abode, among the archives of El Paso, and separated from its companions upon the shelf, wander like a bird, from the arik [ark] of her safety, to be found lost & floating, upon the revolutionary ocean, which the imagination of the defendant, has pictured in his answer?” Then there was the occasion when Benedict was holding court in Las Vegas (New Mexico) at a time when the territory’s ordinance against gambling was being strictly enforced. The Grand Jury returned a long list of indictments for gambling infractions against many of the territory’s most upstanding citizens, including several members of the bar. Most appeared and promptly paid the statutory $50 fine. One of them, Tom Catron, intended to embarrass the judge by pointing out that he, the judge, was known to engage in poker playing on a regular basis. As the court processed those accused, the sheriff read out the names, and at last he called, “Kirby Benedict, for gambling.” The judge promptly stood and listened as the sheriff read the indictment. “Kirby Benedict enters a plea of guilty,” he said loudly, and then added, “and the court assesses his fine at $50 and cost; and, what is more, Kirby Benedict will pay it.” Tom Catron subsequently plead guilty, too. But legend holds that Benedict’s most famous pronouncement came at the conclusion of 1864 murder trial in Taos. The defendant was accused of brutally killing blacksmith Julian Trujillo. The judge is supposed to have said this upon conviction of the accused: “José Maria Martin, stand up! José Maria Martin, you have been indicted, continued on page 27

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and life will be pleasant and men will want to stay; but none of this is for you, José Maria Martin; the flowers will not bloom for you, José Maria Martin, the birds will not carol for you, José Maria Martin; when these things come to gladden the senses of men, you will be occupying a space about six by two beneath the sod, and the green grass and those beautiful flowers will be growing above your lowly head.” (Another part of this legend holds that Martin escaped jail and was not recaptured and was thus not executed. Not so. He was hanged at Taos on May 13, 1864.) For all of the elegance of the pronouncement of the sentence—and there is much more to it—it is unlikely that Benedict ever spoke the words. Former New Mexico State Historian Robert J. Torrez has tried in vain to locate any official document which contains the speech. This seems to be a case where legend has become, more or less, fact. Judge Benedict had two character flaws: he was known to drink too much from time to time, and he cheated at poker, and apparently he was a poor cheat. This latter item is not mere speculation. He was caught at it more than once, and on one occasion in Albuquerque in the late 1850s, he had to sprinted away by friends before an irate loser could shoot him.

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tried and convicted by a jury of your countrymen of the crime of murder, and the court is now about to pass upon you the dread sentence of law. As a usual thing, José Maria Martin, it is a painful duty for the judge of a court of justice to pronounce upon a human being the sentence of death. There is something horrible about it, and the mind of the court naturally revolts from the performance of such a duty; happily, however, your case is relieved of all such unpleasantness, and the court takes positive delight in sentencing you to death. “You are a young man, José Maria Martin, apparently of good physical constitution and robust health. Ordinarily you might have looked forward to many years of life, and the court has no doubt you have, and have expected to die at a green old age, but you are about to be cut off as the consequence of your own act. José Maria Martin, it is now the spring time; in a little while the grass will be springing up in this beautiful valley, and on these broad mesas and mountains sides, flowers will be blooming; birds will be singing the sweet carols, and nature will be putting on her most gorgeous and most attractive robes,

There was a movement to remove Benedict from the bench for drunkenness in the mid-1860s, and a petition was presented to President Lincoln to do so. Lincoln, however, was not moved to do so. He wrote: “. . . Benedict drunk knows more law than all other judges in New Mexico. I shall not disturb him.” In the early 1870s, Benedict became embroiled in some controversy with the Territorial Supreme Court and he was suspended from the practice of law. In January 1874 he petitioned the Court thus: “I present this petition to your honors in the spirit of confession, respect, obedience and supplication. I confess to have committed against this court, its dignity and judges, disorder, improprieties and contempts [sic] for which I should be punished . . . I now come as a supplicant and sincerely crave the pardon and forgiveness of your honors . . .” The Court declined to restore Benedict to practice. He died on February 27, 1874. Selected sources: West Gilbreath, Death on the Gallows: The Story of Legal Hangings in New Mexico, 1847-1923 William A. Keleher. The Fabulous Frontier Howard R. Lamar. The Far Southwest, 1846-1912 Miguel Antonio Otero. My Life on the Frontier (1864-82) Marc Simmons. Albuquerque, A Narrative History Robert J. Torrez, Bar Journal, Sept./Oct. 1996

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Guadalupe Counties became the Powderhorn CattleWomen. The move comes 28 years after the American National CowBelles (ANCB) became the American National CattleWomen (ANCW) on January 28, 1986. The last ANCB President said, “As American National CattleWomen, we will be immediately recognized as the organized women’s sector of the cattle industry.” Powderhorn’s Dorothy Vaughan was ANCW President in 1988. Powderhorn’s May beef promotion activities included the donation of ground beef for the Fort Sumner Elementary Honors Hamburger Fry and participation in Kids, Kows and More in Santa Rosa. Jim and Carol Thorpe provided bumper stickers for group to distribute which read, “Every Day is Earth Day for American Agriculture.” Several members purchased New Mexico CowBelle napkins to use in their personal beef promotion efforts. Plans were finalized for the Old Fort Days BBQ held each June in Fort Sumner. Active and inactive members alike help with this event of beef promotion, fund raising and community service. The annual BBQ funds scholarships for students from Fort Sumner, Vaughn and Santa Rosa. This year $500

scholarships were given to Taylor Riggins, Brendon Lee and Joshua Flores. Submitted by Karen Kelling, Secretary Lariat CowBelles May News 2014. With 13 members present, Lariat CowBelles met on May 14, at the Rabbit Ears Café. Diane Mason was hostess. Donations made by Lariat members for the scholarship fund total $96 and for Mother’s and Father’s Day total $150. A thank you note was received from Mindy Turner for Lariat sponsorship of the 4H Home Ec School. There were four attendees from Union County. Lariats sponsored a drawing for a Mother’s Day $100 Beef Certificate at Ranch Market. There were 671 entrees. The winner was Annette Sisneros, who was entered by her mother. The event was covered live by KLMX radio and the Union County Leader. It is time again for applications for the Lariat CowBelle scholarship. It is open to any sophomore or senior who is entering a major in agriculture or family and consumer sciences. The applicant must be a graduate of a Union County high school or equivalent. June is Beef Month. Ranch Market will be holding a drawing for a grill and Lariat CowBelles will be donating $50 worth of steaks to go with it. Lariats will have their annual pie booth at the 4th of July barbecue at the fair-

grounds. Each member is to donate four pies. These can be brought early to the Extension office if the member is unable to go to the fairgrounds the morning of the pie sale. Pies should be fruit or pecan with no dairy products. Workers for the pie booth need to be there by 9:30 a.m. on July 4. New Mexico CowBelles midyear meeting will be held in Las Cruces on June 8-10. Registration must be in by June 2. Kathryn Malcom-Callis will donate a door prize for Lariat CowBelles. Abrahm Shapiro will be attending the Ranch Management Camp this year. Lariat CowBelles will donate $50 toward his registration. Lariat CowBelle Joyce Sowers and Terry Martin of the Union County Leader are working on a promotion project for June Beef Month. The guest speaker was Brian Moore. He gave an interesting presentation on changes in the grocery business, and the history of Clayton’s Ranch Market. Submitted by Marianne Rose Lariat CowBelle Reporter New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please send minutes and/or newsletters to Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com the 14th of ■ each month.

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Another anti-rancher monument n May 21, 2014 President Obama issued a proclamation to create the 500,000 acre Organ MountainsDesert Peaks National Monument. Unfortunately it contained the same bad grazing language as was used in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. The proclamations say grazing can continue but it must be “consistent” with the purposes of the monument, in other words wildlife, recreation, science and so on. As I’ve written before, this sets up a dual management system where the items listed as purposes become the dominant use, while grazing becomes subservient. This consistency language is a relatively new phe-

nomenon. For instance there was no consistency language in President Clinton’s proclamation creating the huge Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. However, the enviros weren’t winning some of their lawsuits against grazing in monuments so the consistency language has been added. All of this has been explained to Senators Udall and Heinrich, but to no avail. They have now hit the northern and southern parts of New Mexico and those living in other areas of the state better get ready. The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance has identified over three million acres they want to see “protected” and President Obama, while signing this most recent proclamation said, “And I am not finished.”

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The tale of two Udalls I’m not the only one concerned about the negative impact on grazing a monument designation will bring. On the same day Senator Tom Udall introduced his legislation (S. 1805) to designate the monument, his cousin, Senator Mark Udall (D-Colo.) introduced legislation (S. 1794) to do the same in Colorado. His approach to grazing is far different than New Mexico’s Udall. First, grazing is mentioned in the Findings section with the following language: permanently protecting the values described in paragraph (1) while sustaining the local ranching economy would enhance the economic prosperity of local communities that depend on the area Then he includes grazing in the Purposes section with this language: to sustain traditional uses in the Browns Canyon area, including hunting, angling, livestock grazing, commercial outfitting, and boating And in the Management section he has the following language on grazing: . . . the laws (including regulations) and policies followed by the Secretary concerned in issuing and administering grazing permits or leases for the National Monument shall continue to apply in the same manner as on the day before the date of enactment of this Act. (ii) Effect of designation.–There shall be no curtailment of grazing in the National Monument or Wilderness simply because of a designation under this Act. (iii) Adjustments.–Any adjustments in the numbers of livestock permitted to graze in the National Monument or Wilderness shall be based on revisions in the normal grazing and land management planning and policy setting process, giving consideration to legal mandates, range condition, and the protection of range resources from deterioration. That’s pretty strong wording and you won’t find the “consistency” language because livestock grazing is listed as one of continued on page 31

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the purposes. The Colorado Udall wants to protect special lands, but do so in a manner that also protects ranching and the local economy, while the New Mexico Udall wants to designate monuments and wilderness and is apparently unconcerned about the negative impacts on our ranching families.

Ratones sí, ganado no What’s the big deal about a measly 23 acres in a 200 cow outfit? Well, it’s a darn big deal when it controls your access to water. On the Lincoln National Forest the feds have put a pipe fence around the banks of the Agua Chiquita to protect a riparian area and habitat for the meadow jumping mouse. In response, the Otero County Commission passed a resolution instructing the County Sheriff to “immediately take steps to remove or open gates that are unlawfully denying citizens access to their private property rights.” That made the national news and resulted in a meeting in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Albuquerque. According to Blair Dunn, the attorney representing Otero County, the meeting was a disappointment. “It was very frustrating for the sheriff and the county commissioners to go all that way, have that meeting in good faith, and nobody in that room from the federal government ever had any intention of compromising,” said Dunn. Otero County Commissioner Ronny Rardin indicated the dispute is far from over saying, “Ultimately, it is incumbent upon the commission, the sheriff and the citizens of Otero County to stand up for our constitutional rights.” Congressman Pearce says, “These disputes could be easily avoided if federal bureaucrats would stick to their constitutional oath and respect property rights” and Gary Stone, President of the local cattlemen’s association says, “If we let them take over our water rights, that’s the first step. Then we would have nothing left here.” A Forest Service official has explained the fence was authorized using the NEPA process and to even open the gate they would have to repeat the lengthy planning document. If the Forest Service really wanted that gate open you can bet the FONSI would have already been completed and filed. In the meantime, Otero County Sheriff Benny House says he will continue his investigation to determine if the Forest Service broke any state laws.

Wild horses & wild rides In Utah and Nevada there are contentious issues over wild horses, access roads and livestock grazing. Utah ranchers are suing BLM for not removing the prescribed number of horses, which are denuding the range and causing all sorts of resource damage. They are doing so with the backing of two counties, state wildlife officials and the Governor. One county commissioner says BLM’s recent proposal to remove 200 horses is a “joke”. Another Utah county commissioner has fired up his ATV to take a ride on a road the BLM claims is on their land and has closed. He and an estimated fifty other protesters did this in spite of BLM’s threat to prosecute. In Nevada, Elko County Commissioner Grant Gerber is reacting to BLM’s order to not allow livestock grazing on selected allotments for all of 2014. He is organizing a “Grass March” where individuals on Memorial Day weekend will ride their horses over a seventy mile trek from Elko to Battle Mountain. Gerber says the “Grass March” is patterned after Gandhi’s “Salt March” in the 1930s. Gerber explains the

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From the Animal Resources Dept. Cooperative Extension Service, New Mexico State University

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moregulatory mechanisms are capable of maintaining this normal body temperature except when overwhelmed by severe circumstances, such as disease or intense exercise in hot climates. “Heatstroke is a serious condition that can be fatal if not dealt with quickly,” said Turner. “There are several signs that the horse is experiencing hyperthermia. How the horse is acting is one of the first visual signs.” Is it lethargic? Is it sweating profusely? Or is there an absence of sweating altogether? Perspiration is the way animals reduce their body temperature when it increases above a normal range. The sweat that is produced evaporates and cools the body surface. “Some horses may suffer from a condition called anhidrosis, a disorder where the horse does not sweat normally,” Turner said. “These horses are especially prone to hyperthermia if not managed appropriately. The specific cause of anhidrosis is unknown; however, it is thought that there is a physiological defect at the level of the sweat gland that inhibits sweating. A veterinarian can perform diagnostic tests that can confirm this condition if the owner suspects their horse might be afflicted.”

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Environmental Sciences website at aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_b/b-711/welcome.html. “There are several means of relieving heat stress,” Turner said. “The primary goal is to lower the horse’s body temperature as rapidly as possible, and this is done by employing ‘active cooling’ methods that make the most efficient use of the heat loss mechanism that include evaporation, conduction, convection and radiation.” Those methods includes cool water bathing, which can be done with a garden hose or a sponge and bucket; increasing air flow by placing the horse in front of a fan or in a natural breeze; shading by keeping the horse out of the sun; and drinking cool water by giving the horse water to restore the body fluids lost in sweat. “Sweating results in a significant loss of body fluid, so it is important to monitor the horse and ensure that normal body fluid levels are maintained,” Turner said. “Horses that are moderately dehydrated, 4 to 9 percent loss of body fluid, will show decreased skin elasticity, poor capillary refill time of the gums, reduced saliva production, sunken eye sockets, muscle weak■ ness and fatigue.”

USDA Taps Molly Manzanares for Top Post in New Mexico SDA, Farm Service Agency Administrator, Juan M. Garcia has announced the appointment of Molly Manzanares for State Executive Director (SED) of the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) in New Mexico. The Farm Service Agency administers federal farm policy as laid out by Congress through a network of federal, state and county offices. New Mexico Farm Services Agency increased the opportunity for producers as a result of the 2014 Farm Bill. For more information, producers are encouraged to review the 2014 Farm Bill Fact Sheet, online or visit any USDA Service Center. FSA programs are designed to increase economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for rural Americans. Some of the agency’s efforts include facilitating income support, disaster assistance and conservation programs, providing operating loans for the procurement of farm equipment, seed and fertilizer, as well as offering ownership loans to help new and veteran producers purchase a farm. FSA also works to procure various commodities to benefit low-income families

through domestic food assistance programs. As the State Executive Director for the New Mexico FSA, Manzanares will oversee all aspects of federal farm program delivery for an agency that employs nearly 1700 people and on average, issues more than $100 million annually in commodity, conservation, disaster and credit benefits to farmers and ranchers across the nation. Molly has served as a member of the New Mexico Farm Service Agency State Committee since September of 2001. Molly is a native New Mexican who has been involved in agriculture all her life. She grew up in a cattle ranching family. In addition to a mother cowherd, they ran stocker cattle seasonally in the high country near Chama, New Mexico. Since 1998, Molly has been a licensed EMT-I and Instructor/Coordinator, volunteering with La Clinica del Pueblo and working for the Jicarilla Apache Nation in that capacity. After attending New Mexico State University and University of New Mexico, Molly married Antonio J. Manzanares, and they started their own sheep ranching operation. They run one of the last remaining herded bands in the state of New Mexico. On the ranch, they raised ■ four children.

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ome may think this is my motto. But it isn’t. Really. I am blessed to work for and with the best people in the world, both within the membership of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) and in all the connections that we have from the Legislature to Congress and back. Part of the reason I enjoy the work so much is that these folks are family. I can see my grandparents, uncles, aunts and parents in them every day. Sometimes it is scary, but part of the raising was to learn to take the good with the bad. What is sometimes concerning is when the fierce independence turns to just plain stubbornness including the refusal to recognize that none of us are islands. Maybe the concept and the method to address a

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particular situation are not how we would have tackled the same task. But if a job is getting done, why do we want to throw rocks at it? Rachel Thomas used to end all of her emails with “just imagine what we can do if we don’t care who gets the credit.” One of my favorites has been “let’s circle the wagons and point the guns OUTWARD.”

Warpath The federal government has taken dead aim at New Mexico and its neighbors on all sides. If you have any doubt about this, just talk to the folks on the East Side where, despite groundbreaking work and the first ever joint conservation by five states (New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado), they are in a fight for their lives as a result of a lesser prairie chicken

“threaten” listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Not only did this action NOT make the environmental community happy, but they have already filed a notice of intent to sue because they want more. Or maybe you should visit with the northern New Mexico ranchers along with those in the Lincoln National Forest who are facing cuts because of a meadow jumping mouse who hibernates for more than half the year, but reportedly needs a 24 inch stubble height to survive. Even stranger is the fact that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) thinks the critical habitat for the mouse ends at the fence line of the Valles Caldera National Preserve. continued on page 35

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On the West Side folks have been suffering at the hands of federal predators that will likely be shared with other parts of the state sooner rather than later. A draft of an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Mexican wolf is expected in the next few months that will change the rules of engagement for the program as well as a new “target” number of the vicious beasts. Notice that I use the word “target,” not recovery goal or delisting number. The FWS has been unable develop a recovery plan for the last 25 years. The number of 100 was just a number used in the 1998 EIS. We have learned that the number really didn’t/doesn’t mean anything. The latest recovery team effort hasn’t gathered for probably two years. How would you like to be living in Doña Ana County where the President of the United States, with a stroke of a pen, chose to put the future of at least 95 families in Doña Ana County is in jeopardy? Those are just the ranching families within the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument. That doesn’t take into account all the businesses those families support or

the 9,000 head of cattle that are within the designation. There were 800 local businesses who signed letters or petitions opposing the designation. A non-scientific poll conducted by the Las Cruces Sun News found that less than 50 percent of the folks in the area supported the action. The monument designation takes in 500,000 acres. Many believe that it will take another step in reducing border security as well. Needless to say the folks whose land and livelihoods fall within the designation are still trying to figure out which end is up. Not far away in Otero County and the Lincoln National Forest the battle that has raged for more than 20 years has heated to a new level. Like many, many other Western counties, the Otero County Commission is fed up with the federal government harming people and eliminating rural economic vitality. They have issued an order for their sheriff to cut the locks off the latest fence blocking water for ranchers. Word is that the national public outcry has not yet deterred the U.S. Forest Service that has notified a neighboring allotment owner that he can expect to have his water fenced off by the fall. Distressing is the fact that the funding for these transgressions is coming from so-called sports-

men organizations at the request of the federal government. Don’t they know the hunters and fishermen will be next? More distressing is that we see little protection of our rights coming from state leaders. The Office of the State Engineer for New Mexico is nowhere in sight. In this election year we hear a lot about candidates who are so concerned about our water, our agricultural community and our children. However, precious few of them are around for the fight when necessary. Please remember that as you help candidates in the months to come. They need to understand that the issues we are facing are not just about ranchers and farmers — they are about eaters in this state, nation and world.

On The Other Hand . . . You can be proud of the leadership the ranching community is demonstrating. May 31st ROR (Rally for our Rights) in Alamogordo drew “hundreds” of people according the media outlets who came. And they weren’t just the “locals.” Folks from all walks of life and from hundreds miles away thought it was important enough to be there. The ranchers were

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joined by county commissioners from across New Mexico as well as supervisors from Arizona. Northern New Mexico was represented as were the East and West Sides. One lady from Roswell planned her weekend to be able to be at the Otero County Fairgrounds for the rally. Watching the popular media and the internet also tells us we are not alone in this war. County commissions and boards of supervisors from Texas west and north are standing up for the rights of their citizens. Just because the feds may not be at your doorstep today, you can be sure that it won’t be long before they are. There will be more gatherings to protest the cultural genocide that is at hand. We are all too busy to add one more things to our plate. But what will happen if we don’t?

WOTUS The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has come down with yet another rulemaking that has the potential of controlling ALL water in the United States by re-defining “waters of the United States” — WOTUS. Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled twice on this issue. Never mind that Congress has refused to change this definition, this federal administration is hell bent on imposing their will on the people. Jack Field, Lazy JF Cattle, Yakima, Washington, testified on Capitol Hill in late May on the matter. He told members of the House Small Business committee that the rule could make the standards of the USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Services (NRCS) mandatory for any conservation practices on a ranch according to Sarah Gonzalez, Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. With the proposed rule, EPA issued a list of 56 agricultural conservation practices that would be exempt from Clean Water Act (CWA) permits. However, Field said if a conservation practice does not fall within that list or is not done to NRCS standards, it could fall outside the exemption for farming and ranching. He pointed to a fence he built on his ranch to create a riparian pasture. He did not to follow NRCS specifications because of the extra cost involved. If the proposed rule had been in place, he would not have risked being in violation of the CWA or invested in seeking a CWA permit to build it. Alan Parks, vice president of Memphis Stone and Gravel Company, Tennessee,

and Tom Woods, owner of Woods Custom Homes, Missouri, testified that the proposed rule would increase risks of lawsuits against their businesses, cause construction delays and boost permitting costs. They said they already face local and state regulations for potential discharge into waterways associated with construction. Representative Scott Tipton (R-CO) echoed several committee members’ sentiments when he called the proposed rule “the greatest water grab by the federal government in the history of the United States.” The only witness defending the proposed rule was William Buzbee, the director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at Emory Law School in Atlanta. He said the law falls within the scope of rulemaking laid out by the Supreme Court and actually cuts back on EPA jurisdiction. Representative Kurt Schrader (D-OR) joined the majority on the committee when he called Buzbee’s testimony “incredulous.” “I don’t think anybody with a straight face can say this is anything but a huge grab of jurisdictional power at the end of the day,” Schrader said. Schrader has co-sponsored a letter with Representative. Chris Collins (R-NY) signed by 231 House members asking EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw the rule. The rule effectively removes the term “navigable” from the CWAs’ definition with the phrase “significant nexus” that could extend government jurisdiction into ditches and ponds. Committee Chairman Sam Graved (RMO) sponsored a separate letter to EPA chief Gina McCarthy and Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army Corps, saying that the EPA did not conduct required assessments of the rule’s consequences on small businesses. They said the rule includes several broadly-defined terms such as “adjacent,” “riparian area” and “tributary” that could expand the overall definition of “waters of the United States” to include many more small bodies of water. These expanded definitions “may result in significant added legal and regulatory costs for small businesses,” the lawmakers said in their letter. Testimony cited a report disparaging the rule by University of California-Berkley economist David Sunding. The report says EPA used flawed methods to arrive at much lower economic costs of the pro-

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posed rule. Sunding also concluded that the EPA’s analysis of the rule is not transparent. The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has launched a “Ditch the Rule” campaign opposing EPA’s proposal, circulated Sunding’s report, which was prepared with the support of the Waters Advocacy Council, a group that represents agriculture, forestry, mining, real estate, construction, manufacturing and energy communities. As part of the “Ditch the Rule” campaign, the Missouri Farm Bureau produced a parody video that has been extremely popular on Twitter and other social media sites. In the video, Missouri farmers Andy and Kacey Clay, along with their children, point out how a dry ditch on their farm could be impacted by the proposed rule. The video is posted here: http://www.agri-pulse.com/Video-Ditchthe-Rule-EPA.asp The comment deadline is in mid July. We need EVERYONE in New Mexico to comment. To that end, please watch the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) website www.nmagriculture.org, our Facebook pages, your mail and your email to see help.

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leather crafting, gardening, her dogs, horses and cattle. She is survived by her husband of 39 years, Bobby Melton; her sisters Dana Coupland (husband, Jack), Peggy Montgomery (husband, Danny), Kelly Hibbard (husband, Mitch) all of Pinon, and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. Chilton Anderson, 85, died peacefully after a lengthy illness at the Taos Retirement Village in Taos. Born in Philadelphia on March 10, 1929, he attended Putney School in Putney, Vermont and Rutgers University. He served in the army as cellist with the Seventh Army Symphony in Germany in the 1950s. Chilton settled in Taos in 1955, bought a herd of Angus cattle, and became a ski instructor. In 1958 he met and married, Judith Pierson, and they operated the Anderson Registered Angus Ranch before retiring in 2005. The Andersons participated in many shows and sales most notably in Roswell at the Annual NM Angus Show and Sale, and winning many awards for outstanding cattle. Chilton and Judith were inducted into the 1992 NM Angus Association Hall of Fame. He was a founder and Director of the Taos School of Music from 1963 to 2006. In 2000, Chilton was awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and in 2007 he was inducted into the NM Ski Hall of Fame. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Judy; sons, Kenneth (wife, Paula), David (wife, Gail), and daughter, Kathleen Anderson Knox, one grandson and one granddaughter.

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Colostrum: Liquid gold for kid goats and lambs A well-planned colostrum feeding program can help shepherds and goat producers minimize pre-weaning mortality rates by DR. TOM EARLEYWINE, DIRECTOR OF NUTRITIONAL SERVICES FOR LAND O’LAKES ANIMAL MILK PRODUCTS olostrum is often likened to liquid gold. The first feeding of antibodies has long been associated with immediate immune protection for calves, but the power of the first feeding is sometimes overlooked in small ruminants. This step is just as important in newborn lambs and kid goats, as management of newborns can play a significant role in a flock or herd’s long-term productivity potential. Colostrum, or the first milk of the ewe or doe, is the first protection that lambs and kids receive against environmental pathogens and bacteria. Newborns must be protected following birth because antibodies in the ewe’s or doe’s bloodstream do not cross the placenta.[1] The antibodies can only be received by consuming colostrum. Following birth, the lamb or kid is exposed to bacteria and pathogens that its immune system is unfamiliar with. Without protection, the new life can be in danger – leading to an increase in pre-weaning health issues and mortality rates. In fact, industry estimates show that nearly 20 percent of lambs die before weaning with 80 percent of these losses experienced during the first 10 days of life.[2] Research on kid pre-weaning mortality rates shows similar trends. Realistically, pre-weaning mortality rates in sheep flocks and goat herds should be under 5 percent. [2]

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Colostrum is key in keeping death loss numbers in check. The ewe or doe supplies protection as antibodies that are concentrated in colostrum as immunoglobulins (IgGs). These antibodies help the newborn to fend off intestinal, respiratory and other diseases. High energy levels found in colostrum also help newborns to stay warm while dense levels of immune factors and Vitamins A and E can promote a healthy start to the digestive and respiratory systems.[3] This protection against the elements

hinges on high quality colostrum fed immediately following birth. Lambs and kids should receive 10 percent of their body weight in colostrum by 18 hours of age. For example, a 10 pound lamb should be fed 1 pound (or 16 ounces) of colostrum in its first day of life. At least half of this volume should be fed within 4 to 8 hours. Colostrum and colostrum replacements should be fed at about 105 degrees F. Researchers at the University of Maryland recently stated that, when feeding the first colostrum, within “30 minutes is optimum while 18 hours is a must.”[4] Timing is crucial because the protective antibodies found in colostrum can only cross the intestinal wall and enter the bloodstream during this time. The intestinal wall begins to stop passive transfer of antibodies hours after birth, so immediate feeding of colostrum is desired. To ensure proper consumption in the necessary time, colostrum can be hand-fed via bottle or stomach tube. The necessary levels can be fed in three increments throughout the first 18 hours for adequate consumption. Once in the system, the maternally-derived antibodies help fight off infections, while the lamb builds its own stable immune system.[5]

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a USDA licensed small ruminant specific colostrum replacer within the first 18 hours, a lamb-specific or kid-specific milk replacer should be fed until weaning. For more information, visit www.lolmilkreplacer.com or contact Dr. Tom Earleywine at 800/618-6455 or email: TJEarleywine@landolakes.com. [1] “Sheep management: Colostrum and health of newborn lambs.” Iowa State University Extension. June 1995. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM989X12.pdf 18 February 2013. [2] “Care of newborn lambs.” Sheep 201: A beginner’s guide to raising sheep. http://www.sheep101.info/201/newborns.html. 18 February 2013. [3] Schoenian, Susan. “Colostrum: Liquid Gold.” University of Maryland Extension. http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/colostrum.ht ml. 18 February 2013. [4] Schoenian, Susan. “Colostrum: Liquid Gold.” University of Maryland Extension. http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/colostrum.ht ml. 18 February 2013. [5] Nowak, R., and P. Poindron. From birth to colostrum: Early steps to lamb survival. Reproductive Nutrition Development. Volume 46, pp 431-446. 2006. http://vetsci.co.uk/2012/01/23/the-importance-of-colostrum-for-new-born-lamb/. [6] “Sheep management: Colostrum and health of newborn lambs.” Iowa State University Extension. June 1995. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM989X12.pdf 18 February 2013.

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disease to their young through the milk. These diseases do not appear until the animals reach maturity and can be devastating to health and production. To prevent the transmission of these diseases, offspring should not be allowed to nurse from ewes that test positive for OPP or does that test positive for CAE. One way to ensure that all newborns receive high-quality colostrum, free from any disease, in adequate quantities is through a colostrum replacer. When selecting a colostrum replacement product, look for a product labeled to raise IgG concentration above 10 mg/ml. These products are typically made of dried bovine colostrum and contain at least 75 grams of IgG per liter as well as high levels of natural colostral fat, protein, vitamins and minerals needed by the newborn lamb. In the United States, these products are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Center for Veterinary Biologics for quality control. Look for the U.S. Veterinary permit on the label. Beyond this measure, selection of colostrum replacers should be based on research. Analyze the product for research results and determine if the supplier is a reputable source. In addition, the product should be made specifically for small ruminants (lambs and kids). After feeding

[7] Lindsay, D. R., R. Nowak, I. Gede Putu, and D.

M. McNeill. 1990. Behavioural interactions between the ewe and her young at parturition: A vital step for the lamb. Pages 191–205 in Reproductive Physiology of Merino Sheep. Concepts and Consequences. C. M. Oldham, G. B. Martin, and I. W. Purvis, ed. School of Agriculture (Animal Science), The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Peth. [8] “Care of newborn lambs.” Sheep 201: A beginner’s guide to Raising Sheep. http://www.sheep101.info/201/newborns.html. 10 March 2014.

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ways to make people cooperate even if they do not wish to do so. One such way is a citizen’s suit, which is where they can sue someone for supposedly endangering a species. Another way is by saying that that by not letting them use the land is a crime and you could be charged, and could possibly serve time in prison. If someone happens to accidently kill something that is protected, he can also be charged with a fine. So, if anyone is ever in a situation that involves an endangered species, they should be careful because he can be charged with all kinds of things. One example of a successful project is the reintroduction of the Desert Bighorn Sheep into Texas, Which began in 1954. The Bighorn Sheep had been almost wiped out due to over hunting and diseases from domestic sheep. By the early 1960s, the last of Texas’ native Bighorn Sheep were gone. Most efforts at restocking the sheep were failures and were abandoned. The Sierra Diablo Wildlife Management Area (SDWMA) is where they began to raise pens of Bighorn Sheep so that they could later be released into the wild. In June 1973, in Culberson and Hudspeth counties, they released a pen of pen-raised sheep consisting of four rams and three ewes; this herd grew to about one-hundred head. The SDWMA kept releasing the sheep until May 1997, when the facility was shut down because of an ongoing disease problem. There was also another heard released in Brewster County; at a facility was called The Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area (EMWMA). The herd was a result from releasing ten rams and ten ewes on February 4, 1987. All of these sheep were pen-raised bighorns from the SDWMA that was shut down. Since then, the sheep have increased in number. The sheep were also released in other places such as Culberson County; the two herds released there were called The Van Horn Mountains herd, and The Baylor Mountains herd. The release of these sheep were different because they were not pen raised. The sheep released here were trapped in the wild from Nevada and then transported to Texas and released (Texas Parks and Wildlife Par 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). As of 2010, the population of the Desert Bighorn Sheep was 1,115 sheep: 364 Rams, 569 Ewes, and 182 Lambs reside in the area where they were released (Texas Bighorn Society Par 10). During the 20082009 hunting season, fifteen Desert Bighorn Sheep hunting permits were distributed. This means that the Desert

Bighorn Sheep have successfully been reintroduced and have now been declassified to threatened instead of endangered (Texas Parks and Wildlife Par 10). The ESA has reintroduced many animals all across the United States. In many ways this has helped these animals, but in some areas it has made things worse. In many parts of the country they have begun to release predators in areas in which they no longer existed. These predators were killed off, not because people wanted to be cruel, but because they were problematic for the land owner or people in general. Predators such as bears, wolves, and mountain lions are being released into the wild again. This would be great if not for the fact that these animals were removed from areas for a reason. Most of the time, the reason was that the animals were killing livestock or in some cases people. So in order to stop this from happening, the animals were exterminated from the area. In places that these predators have been released, the animals have been pen raised and then released into the wild. Most nondomesticated animals that have been raised in a pen by humans loose all their fear for humans. These animals are comfortable around a human being, which

means if they are released into the wild and a person happens to come across one, they may not be able to scare it away or defend themselves. What this means for ranchers with livestock is that if they see one of these animals they can try to scare it away, but it will just keep coming back and killing their livestock. Then why not kill the animal in question? Well, this could be done but at the cost of a large fine or maybe even some jail time. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has put out a set of compensation guidelines to help ranchers and farmers with any loss from the reintroduction of species. The process to get compensation for killed livestock due to the animal the reintroduction program is a little bit complicated. In the guidelines, it states that in order to protect the evidence the body of the animal is not to be moved from the place where it was killed. The rancher is supposed to keep it like that until an agency expert can come and determine if it was due to one of the animals that was released. If it is determined that the cause of the animal’s death was due to the reintroduction program, then the farmer or rancher will get a pay-

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ment for the animal, but note that the prices that they have set for livestock is lower than the price that the animal could have sold for at market price. Now how is that fair when the farmer or rancher isn’t even getting back the full value of the livestock? If someone has an animal that was injured due to an animal that was released, he may or may not get compensation for the livestock. It is up to the people who are working on the project (The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Page1-3). Most of the time the agencies don’t want to pay the land owner, so they try the best they can to prove you wrong. At one point in time, the Mexican Gray Wolf roamed from Arizona to Texas, but as humans moved in, the wolves started to cause problems. The wolves would attack livestock and in some cases humans; therefore the wolves were dangerous. In an effort to eradicate this problem, the Mexican Gray Wolf was eliminated from the United States and Mexico by the 1970s. Then in 1976, three years after the Endangered Species Act was enacted, the Mexican Gray Wolf was put on the endangered species list as a subspecies of the gray wolf. The wolf was already fully extinct in the

Southwestern United States and there were few reports of the wolves in Mexico; this was the only reason it continued to exist in the wild. Then in 1977, and 1982, a recovery of the Mexican wolf was put into action. The United States and Mexico agreed to work together in order to start a breeding program by trapping the wolves from Mexico. They wanted to breed the wolves in order to save the population from extinction and then later reintroduce them to the wild. In 1979, they established a team to map out an area where they could set up the recovery for the wolves. The recovery plan was approved in 1982. As the program to recover the wolves grew and the project became a success in the 1980s, it was then time to find a place where they could reintroduce the wolf into its natural habitat. In 1996, an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was finished. They wanted to release the wolves in the Apache and Gila National Forests in Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico, which was once home to the wolves before their extinction. In March 1997, the Secretary of the Interior okayed the release of wolves into the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area. They then enforced the non-essential experimental population designation for Mexican wolves, which made it a lot easier

to help with conflicts, such as the killing of livestock or the endangering. The Final Rule was then set in place which, provided regulations on how the reintroduced population would be managed by the agencies. It also covered the public’s rights and talked about human safety and protection of people’s property from Mexican wolves. It gave guidelines releasing wolves on private, tribal, and public lands. On March 29, 1998, captive raised wolves were released into the wild for the first time in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Par 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Well, isn’t it a good thing for the wolves to once again thrive in this area. Not really, the wolves will now cause major issues for the people living in these areas and for their livestock. The wolves were raised in captivity, so they are less afraid of humans since they were raised by them. There was an article in Range Magazine about how the ranchers are continuously losing livestock due to the wolves, yet nothing is being done about it. The people running the recovery plan have made a new regulation called the three strikes rule. In the three strikes rule, if a wolf has killed more than three livestock in one year, it is taken into captivity for one year. It is later released back into the wild in the same exact place as before. If the wolf kills two livestock in one year, and then kills another in January of the next year, that only counts as one. Every year the wolves’ killings are reset (Range Magazine Page 38-40). Even though it is said that it is more likely for a dog than a wolf to attack someone, the citizens of Reserve, New Mexico might disagree. The wolves that were released in this area have been stalking kids on their way to school; the city has even built cages at bus stops in which the kids may wait, so they are not hassled by the wolves (Warren Par 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18). Caren Cowan explained the process of trying to get compensation for animals killed by wolves. Since most ranchers own a lot of land in order to run a healthy operation, they don’t normally see their animals every day, so they might not know when one goes missing. The organization that is suppose to give out the compensation is the Defenders of Wildlife, but if people take the money then they are obligated to support the wolf recovery project (Cowen). I talked to two ranchers in the area where the wolves were released. First I talked to Jim Gearhart who is the Ranch Manager of the HRY Ranch in Grant County, New Mexico. Mr. Gearhart said continued on page 45

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that it was very hard to get the compensation because the agencies do not want to pay, so they try to blame it on other animals, like coyotes (Gearhart). After talking to Mr. Gearhart, he referred me to Alan Tackman who is a rancher and attorney in Catron County. He told me about the compensation and how to get it. He said that a person has to call the agency and wait for an agent to come and look at the animal. Since there are other animals around such as bears, lions, and coyotes most of the time the animal is half eaten and it is hard to tell what killed it. The best way to tell is by measuring the spots where the bite marks are. The wolves’ bite marks are bigger than a coyote’s, but smaller than a bear’s. If there is hemorrhaging where the bite was made, then the animal means it was bitten when it was still alive. It is said that for every one cow that is found killed by a wolf, there are eight more cows that have not been found and killed by wolves. Mr. Tackman has tried many ways to prevent the wolves from killing his cattle. He has moved them to a different pasture farther from the wolves and hired a range rider, which is a person who follows the animals around in case a predator arrives. So far, he said none of these have precisions have been and the only thing that is working is moving the cattle to a different ranch outside of the wolf territory. In the last fourteen years, Mr. Tackman has spent twenty to thirty thousand dollars fighting the wolves (Tackman). These wolves are ruining people’s lives and people have no idea. They just see the cute and fuzzy little wolves that the environmental agencies show us. Right now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is requesting approval to release wolves in Texas. One of the areas included in this is Jeff Davis and Brewster counties. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is trying to shut this down because they have seen what it has done to the Arizona and New Mexico areas (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southwestern Regional Office and Mexican Wolf Recovery Program Page 29-30). Another reason to reconsider is by bringing the wolves back into this area is all the work it took to bring the Desert Bighorn Sheep back to this region may go to waste. Are really going to bring in a major predator? One of the wolves’ major food sources is the bighorn. Another is the Pronghorn antelope which is also on the endangered species list (Par 5). Do we really want to eradicate the sheep now that we have just reintroduced them? Do we want our chil-

dren to have to wait in cages to go to school? Think about this and decide if it is smart to bring these cute little wolves back into this area? Anytime the subject of endangered species and property rights is discussed, the question always boils down to who is more important, human beings or animals? Is an animal’s livelihood more important than a person’s life? In some cases we have not only endangered species, but also ourselves. After speaking to Caren Cowan, who is the executive director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, I have learned some frightening things about the wolves in New Mexico. She said that people have been so afraid or stressed out by the wolves, that they have moved away from the area. The wolves that had been released were raised by humans so these wolves seek out the people. People have given accounts of wolves sitting in their yards and corrals, and then finding their horses or pets dead. Many children of the area have developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because they have been stalked by a wolf or seen a wolf kill their pets. There was a reason that our ancestors killed the wolves in the first place. It is not because we are a cruel species, but because they were causing harm to us and the

other animals for which we care for (Cowan). We have learned from our past mistakes and are now trying to make it right, by reintroducing the Bighorn Sheep. However predatory animals are different in the way that they were endangering us. In turn, we were only protecting ourselves. Whether it is a lizard shutting down an entire West Texas oil field, a little insect shutting down apple production, or a wolf ruining a ranching operation, we have to ask if a lizard, insect, or wolf is more important than a person’s livelihood? The American land owner’s help in many ways, they provide us with the leather on our shoes, the gas in our cars, and the food in or mouths, if we allow the Endangered Species Act to destroy the livelihoods of these people by the reintroduction of predators, what will happen to our society? Work Cited About the Department Of Commerce. United States Department of Commerce. N.p.n.d. Web. About NOAA. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration United States Department of Commerce. N.p. n.d. Web. Coffman, Michael S. “Taking Liberty”. Range Magazine. Fall 2005. 30-35. Print continued on page 59

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“Cowboy to Contractor” e was partners with Gene Autry. He was once son-in-law to Tom Mix. He won the Canadian Saddle Bronc Riding Championship—twice. He spent about forty-five years making his living in a rodeo arena. He was the legendary, Harry Knight. Born in Quebec City, Canada in 1907, the Knight family moved west when Harry was a young boy to Banff, Alberta. Harry’s father had a resort on Banff’s, Lake Louise. Although the rest of the Knight family members were not “cowboys” so much, young Harry took an interest in animals and cowboying early on. He entered his first rodeo in Sundre, Alberta Canada in 1925, thus beginning a half-century career in rodeo. As a contestant in the rodeo arena, Harry excelled in the Saddle Bronc Riding event. He also entered Bareback, Steer Decorating, Calf Roping and Steer Riding at times. During his years as a contestant, he rode the bad bucking horse Five Minutes to Midnight for an eternity of ten seconds (the required time back then, today

an official ride is eight seconds). As mentioned above, he also won the Canadian Bronc Riding Championship, in 1926 and ‘32. A bad injury at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933 nearly ended his riding career, however Harry recovered to compete through the early ‘40s. As Harry’s rodeo career started to wind down, he turned to the contracting side of the game—something he will forever be remembered for. In 1937 or so, Knight became a partner in the World Champion Rodeo Company. Back in 1936, when the cowboys went on strike at Boston Garden (the event that was the catalyst for the formation of the Cowboy Turtles Association or CTA), Colonel Johnson was the owner of the World Championship Rodeo Co. Perhaps as a result of the strike and the new cowboy’s association, Johnson became disgusted with rodeo, or maybe it was just time for him to retire. What ever the case may have been, Colonel Johnson sold his rodeo company to Everett Colborn of Dublin, Texas; Bill and Twain Clemens of

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Florence, Arizona and Harry Knight (who also lived in Arizona by this time). According to author Gail Hughbanks Woerner, “The company consisted of 150 saddle horses, 150 bucking horses, 50 Brahma bulls, 100 head of bulldogging cattle, 90 calves, 50 wild cows, 110 saddles and various other equipment.” Harry wound up selling out his interest in the company a few years later. Then, in 1954 legendary cowboy, Gene Autry, purchased the late Leo J. Cremer’s rodeo company and hired Harry Knight to manage it. In 1959, when Everett Colburn retired, the World Championship Rodeo Company was merged with the Cremer stock, making Autry and partners one of the largest stock contractors of the day. At one time, it was reported Gene Autry’s rodeo company had over six-hundred head of stock. Knight remained the manager until he retired in 1968. Harry Knight was also the first Rodeo Cowboy Association (RCA) stock contracting representative to serve on the Board of Directors (1966-76). Earlier, in his contestant days, he had served on the board of the CTA as the Saddle Bronc Riding representative. Author Clifford P. Westermeier remembered Knight, “as a man who enjoyed diverse friendships ranging from New York’s upper crust to the poorest ranch hands in Arizona and Texas.” Writing about Knight as a contestant, rodeo historian Willard Porter said, “As most top-drawer bronc men do, Knight acquired a canny understanding of the chemistry that goes into the makeup of a dead-end bad horse.” Ruth Mix (third child of the great cowboy actor, Tom Mix) and Harry Knight were married in 1935. A newspaper report from the day says they spent their honeymoon at Livermore, California where they were both scheduled to compete in a rodeo. Ruth Mix was a rodeo, circus and wild west show performer and an actress. By this time in his career, Knight listed his continued on page 47

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address as Casa Grande, Arizona (he actually lived across the street from the first All-around Champion of the World, Earl Thode). Tom Thode, younger son of Earl Thode, and a former Yuma County, Arizona. Superior Court Judge, grew up across the street from Harry Knight. Tom related this story to the author. “The actor Tom Mix and his son-in-law, Harry Knight were pretty close. When Tom died, most newspaper reports of the day claimed he was going from Tucson (after a night of wild partying) to Florence to see his son-in-law. The truth (as told to me by Harry himself) is that he was with Tom already—and they actually had left Tucson together that morning. “Tom had a flask of whiskey and was hitting on it pretty heavily as they sped towards Florence. He kept passing it over to Harry, who would take a little sip now and then, and then pour a bigger batch of it down the side of the car. Pretty soon, the whiskey ran out, so Harry told Tom to pull over at a little country bar they were approaching. When Tom slid the car to a stop in front of the bar, Harry jumped out and said he would go in and get more whiskey. “After ten minutes or so, Tom Mix got tired of waiting and went in to see what the delay was. He went into the bar and didn’t see anyone but the bartender. He asked the bartender if he had seen a cowboy come in there in the last ten minutes or so. The bartender said he had, and that the man had walked in the front door then straight out the back—and off into the desert! Tom got tired of waiting and soon left without Harry. “The rest is history. A few miles up the road, the accident happened that killed Tom Mix. Harry Knight knew Tom was not safe to ride with, but also knew Tom would not listen to reason at that point, so he got out of the car when he could. By leaving when he did, it most likely saved his life.” Harry went on to live a full and accomplished life after that (as outlined above). In November 1985, seventy-nine-year-old Harry Knight (who owned a ranch and lived in Fowler, Colorado by then), was inducted into the Canadian Rodeo Historical Society at Edmonton, Alberta. In December of that same year, he was also inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. The great Harry Knight ■ died April 5, 1989.

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The Commies are coming y neighbors just finished tripping some wild steers and tying them down Arizona cowboy style. Yes, they will go back and get the steers after they cool off. Unlike the government cowboys who slaughtered the Bundy cattle in Nevada they will go back and take their steers home instead of burying them. The government must have hired some “REAL” cowboys to pull off that stunt. Were you not impressed that the government tore up the livestock waters on the Bundy Ranch? What bravery they demonstrated. How does that help the wildlife that is still there when the cattle leave? Why don’t we hear from People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals in regard to Cliven Bundy’s slaughtered cattle? Perhaps slaughtering Bundy’s cattle was the government’s way of saving the ozone from cattle emissions? We truly have a bunch of miseducated nuts running this country. Have you noticed that the people that

preach tolerance are often the most intolerant? Time and again the American cattle rancher gets attacked by its own government. The United States government resorts to gunships, armored cars, and highly armed officers to deal with a handful of cowboys who never hurt anyone? Maybe it was caused by a senator’s greed? It was just a few years ago that ranchers worked with the government to advance conservation. The United States Forest Ranger was your friend and helper. However, things have changed and the government has declared war on cattle ranchers. Whoever thought that Americans would have to fear their own government? It started about ten years ago around here. Our ranger of thirty years retired and was replaced with an arrogant twenty-fiveyear-old city slicker that knew nothing about grazing or cattle. One day he shows up and introduces himself as the new ranger. The first thing he informed us of were his suggestions on how we should manage our allotment. He wanted to switch our winter country with our sum-

mer country. I asked him if he was the stupidest person on earth and he actually thought he was pretty smart. We had only managed this allotment successfully for over sixty years. Just to be clear the winter country has canyons, trees, and lots of oak brush so the cattle have shelter and feed in the winter. Our summer country was a big wide open grassy plain which responded well to spring rains with abundant forage. Since your ranger can only suggest crazy ideas and cannot force you to implement them we didn’t change. However, he came by about once a week with some new crazy scheme. We had a natural spring that we maintained and it always had water when other places did not. Our ranger determined that the cattle were ruining the “riparian area”. I asked how he had determined that? He pointed to a cottonwood sapling near the spring and began his diatribe explaining that they count the broken branches on a sapling. If there were more than ten breaks then there were too many cattle in the riparian area. He also pointed to all the tracks at the base of the sapling. First I asked him if he actually believed that counting branches on a sapling was an accurate way to determine there were too many cattle at the spring. He swore he really believed it. I then asked him if he knew what a deer track looked like. He said he did and I

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called him a liar. With a puzzled look he asked me why I called him that. I explained that his riparian area was covered with deer tracks and that cattle had not been there in over four months. Needless to say, that did shut him up for awhile. To make a long story short we did have a chance to sell the forest allotment so we did. We had other places to run our cattle without government interference. However, many others do not have that choice. The other thing that always baffled me about running cattle on the forest service was their fake concern for the land and wildlife. They would try and control the rancher’s every move, but when ATV folks tore up your pasture it was of no concern to them. Vandalism of water tanks and wells was never taken seriously either. It’s funny how the government would forget that they had a lease agreement with you and thought you had no rights as well. They certainly convinced me that they are truly evil. What can we do to fight this oppression of the rancher? I think voting in the right folks would be a start in turning it around, but what do we do in the meantime? I’ve never seen America in such a rut of government takeover of everything. Our freedom guaranteed by the United States Constitution is being eroded on a daily basis. Political correctness does nothing but impede free speech. Where are we going to end up? Let’s stand up for ourselves before it is too late. How did cattle ranchers, military veterans, and independent thinking citizens become enemies of the country ■ they would die to support?

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out to the live spring behind the house and bring it in with a water bucket. My heart was beginning to fall. I wasn’t used to a lot of luxuries, and knew how to cope with no electricity and no plumbing for the house. I knew how to live with no running water in the house. We could never drink the well water in all my years of growing up and still can’t to this day. What I had no experience with was building a fire. And I was afraid of burning my baby up in that old wood frame cabin! The men finally came in to a meal of cold sandwiches, and all but Charlie left for their homes. Charlie mentioned that it was too bad I didn’t have time to cook those hard-working cowboys a hot meal. I said that Donald had promised them a good hot meal in a cafe on the way home. I helped Charlie set up his “tack room” I advised that he should hang everything from the rafters of the shed, since chipmunks were plentiful.

About that time we heard Flipper underneath the cabin, hitting every floor joist as he chased another one. This became our routine, listening to him chasing the chipmunks. After we had gotten everything squared away at the tack shed, and at the cabin, I decided I needed to make supper. I asked Charlie to make a fire in the stove. He retorted that he was tired and I needed to make it myself. Confession time. I told him I didn’t know how. He explained how to do that. I tried. And tried. And tried. He demonstrated. Okay, I get it. With his roaring fire, I started supper. Burned the bread. Oh me! I have been cooking my whole life. It is the one thing I do really well! But maybe not on a wood stove. A good night of sleep . . . well I did get a little chilly, but still slept pretty well

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because I was tired. Charlie got up early and started a fire in the wood stove and started the coffee to boiling. Crawled back in bed until the cabin began to warm up and Scott woke. Time to get dressed and start the day. First things first. I fed Scott, then started to work on breakfast. I cooked the bacon while I made biscuits. All right, let’s try this biscuit cooking again! Stuck the pan in the oven, broke eggs into the skillet. Looked in the oven. Turned biscuits around. Cooked eggs. Grabbed biscuits out of the oven. They look beautiful. Charlie tears one open. It is doughy on the inside. I grabbed it and toasted it in the skillet. I hauled water into the cabin and heated it on the stove to wash dishes. Finished. I hauled water in and heated it on the stove to bathe Scott. Finished. I swept the floor and used Scott’s bath water to mop the floor. I hauled water to heat on the stove and wash out Scott’s dirty clothes. While I was at it, I washed our dirty clothes as well. I checked the time. 8:00 a.m. I kept feeding a stick of wood in the stove to keep the fire going. Now it was getting hot in the cabin. I opened the door

and sat on the door step doing some embroidery. Fed Scott again. Read on one of my books. It was a nice day out, so I took Scott and Flipper and went for a walk. Suddenly remembered the fire in the stove and made a mad dash back to feed another stick in the fire. I decided chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and biscuits and gravy for dinner (lunch) was in order. It was 10:00 by now, so I thought I would start. Peeled the potatoes and set them to boil. Made the biscuits and set them to bake. Fried the steak. Turned the biscuits around. Made the gravy and got the biscuits out of the oven just as Charlie rode in. The biscuits might be a little too brown on the bottom. No, they might be a little BLACK on the bottom. Just a touch doughy in the center. Oh well. Charlie said, “They will eat!” But he didn’t say what. I let the fire go out. Leftovers for supper. I started hauling water in after supper. I filled the galvanized tub half full of cold water and set two big pots to boiling on the stove Charlie had now built a fire in. I hauled the water. I got the first bath. Charlie took a bath then I re-mopped the floor. This pioneer woman stuff isn’t that bad! I was tired from hauling water, and still hadn’t gotten the hang of starting a

fire or of cooking bread in that old oven, but I was doing pretty well. Next morning, I beat the biscuit blues. I made pancakes. Charlie enjoyed them, but as he was kissing me good-bye, he mentioned that he would really like a coconut cream pie for dinner. I felt like a big balloon that had just been deflated. I started my morning routine of hauling water . . . Dishes, Scott’s bath, diapers. Sigh. In the meantime, Flipper is spending a hard morning of chipmunk chasing. It seemed the only time I saw him was at meal times and bed time. The rest of the day he was protecting us from the invasion of chipmunks! I started the pie crust. I knew I would have to watch it close, but once it was in the oven I started the coconut filling. It only scorched a little from being cooked in the high altitude. Pulled the pie crust out of the oven. It was only burned on one side. I threw it out and started over. This time I sat next to the oven and opened it about every few moments. I actually accomplished it this time! Filled with the filling, topped with hand whipped meringue and coconut and back in the oven to brown. I watched this like a hawk as well. Perfect. Now it was time to start dinner. I had been simmering a pot of beans on the stove all morning, and more steak and some cornbread completed the meal . . . Except, the cornbread was a . . . little . . . runny in the middle, and the beans, in this high altitude, were kind of, well, a little, umm, they rattled on the plate. But the meat and the pie was great, that is if you like coconut pie . . . which I don’t! We stayed for two weeks before we came home for a weekend, during which time Charlie’s mother and father took our place for three days. When we went back, Charlie got very busy as the yearlings were taking brisket disease. I still couldn’t start a fire, but I could keep it going all day. I practiced with that old oven all day every day. Soon, I could turn out biscuits and yeast rolls and loafs and cornbread and cakes with hardly ever a bobble! I was bored a lot, but I kept busy taking care of my baby and baking. One day, I was out gathering wild flowers to put on a plywood sheet I had found to lay across an empty barrel that we were using for a table in front of the cabin. There were a row of bushes with some kind of berries between me and Flipper and the cabin where my baby lay sleeping. All at once, Flipper started jumping toward continued on page 60

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HereARE are the answers to the five HERE THE ANSWERS TO most THE FIVE MOST ASKED asked questions I hear from New Mexico stockmen: QUESTIONS I HEAR FROM NEW MEXICO STOCKMEN

Q. I’m over 65 and have Medicare and a Medicare supplement policy, do I need to do anything? A. No action is necessary. If you want to change your Medicare supplement plan for next year, you must make your change between October 15 and December 7, 2014.

Q. I’m under 65 and am currently covered by health insurance what are my options? 1. If you are covered by an employer group policy, no action is required unless your employer is changing the company plan or discontinuing the plan. 2. If you are under 65 and have individual (non-group) coverage for you and your family or you have your own small group plan. a. If your policy was purchased before March 2010 and you have not made changes to the policy [no increased deductible, etc], this policy is grand fathered and you can keep it as long as the insurance company keeps renewing that plan. b. Your policy was purchased after March 2010. If your policy is from Blue Cross Blue Shield or Lovelace, you can keep it until Dec. 1, 2014. You will have to select a new plan after that date. 3. If you are covered under the New Mexico Cattle Growers member group policy with Blue Cross Blue Shield, your coverage will continue until August 1, 2014. You will be alerted to any proposed changes in your plan by June 1, 2014.

Q. I do not have health coverage, what are my options? a. Sign up by March 31, 2014, for a policy that will begin on April 1, 2014 with one of the following companies: i. Blue Cross Blue Shield ii. Presbyterian iii. New Mexico Health Connections iv. Molina (only for those eligible for Medicaid) b. How do you do it? Call our office: 1-800/286-9690 or 505/828-9690 or email me at rhomer@financialguide.com

Q. If you want to know if you & your family qualify for a government subsidy, go to www.kff.org [Kaiser Family Foundation]. Robert L. Homer & Associates, LLC. New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Insurance Administrators Ask for Barb: 800/286-9690 505/828-9690 Fax: 505/828-9679 IN LAS CRUCES CALL: Jack Roberts: 575/524-3144

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Q. I do not want any coverage, what are my options? a. Penalty for 2014 = $95 per adult and $47.50 per child or 1% of your family income, whichever is greater. b. Penalty for 2016 = $695 per adult and $347.50 per child or 2.5% of your family income, whichever is greater.

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Mainstream media don’t know Big Green has deeper pockets than Big Oil by RON ARNOLD, WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM he “Kill Keystone XL” crowd isn’t little David up against a Big Oil Goliath. As usual, conventional wisdom isn’t wisdom when the mainstream media ask all the wrong questions with commensurate answers. Behemoth Big Green outstrips Big Oil in expendable revenue by orders of magnitude — if you know how to follow the money. The mainstream media don’t know how. Like most liberals, their staffs are afflicted with what 20th century futurist Herman Kahn called “Educated Incapacity” — the learned inability to understand or even perceive a problem, much less a solution. They’ve been taught to be blind, unable to see Big Green as having more disposable money than Big Oil, so they don’t look into it. They would never discover that the American Petroleum Institute’s IRS Form 990 for the most recent year showed $237.9 million in assets while the Natural Resources Defense Council reported $241.8 million. Nor would they discover who started the anti-Keystone campaign in the first place. It was the $789 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund (established in 1940). The fund’s program is elaborated in a 2008 PowerPoint presentation called “The Tar Sands Campaign” by program officer Michael Northrop, who set up coordination and funding for a dozen environmental and anti-corporate attack groups to use the strategy, “raise the negatives, raise the costs, slow down and stop infrastructure, and stop pipelines.” Tom Steyer’s $100 million solo act is naive underclass nouveau cheap by comparison. Mainstream reporters appear not to be aware of the component parts that comprise Big Green: environmentalist membership groups, nonprofit law firms, nonprofit real estate trusts (The Nature Conservancy alone holds $6 billion in assets), wealthy foundations giving prescriptive grants, and agenda-making cartels such as the 200-plus member Environmental Grantmakers Association. They each play a major socio-political role. Invisible fact: the environmental move-

ment is a mature, highly developed network with top leadership stewarding a vast institutional memory, a fiercely loyal cadre of competent social and political operatives, and millions of high-demographic members ready to be mobilized as needed. That membership base is a built-in free public relations machine responsive to the push of a social media button sending politically powerful “educational” alerts that don’t show up on election reports. Big Oil doesn’t have that, but has to pay for lobbyists, public relations firms and support groups that do show up on reports.

You don’t need expert skills to connect the dots linking Keystone XL to Alberta’s oil sands to climate change to Big Green. On the other hand, you do need detailed knowledge to parse Big Green into its constituent parts. I spoke with Washingtonbased environmental policy analyst Paul Driessen, who said, “U.S. environmental activist groups are a $13-billion-a-year industry — and they’re all about PR and mobilizing the troops. “Their climate change campaign alone has well over a billion dollars annually, and continued on page 56

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high-profile battles against drilling, fracking, oil sands and Keystone get a big chunk of that, as demonstrated by the Rockefeller assault.” Driessen then identified the mostneglected of all money sources in Big Green: “The liberal foundations that give targeted grants to Big Green operations have well over $100 billion at their disposal.” That figure is confirmed in the Foundation Center database of the Top 100 Foundations. But how much actually gets to environmental groups? The Giving USA Institute’s annual reports show $80,427,810,000 (more than $80 billion) in giving to environmental recipients from 2000 to 2012. I checked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and found $147.3 million in assets while environmental donor Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation posted $5.2 billion. Driessen pointed out another unperceived sector of Big Green: government donors. “Under President Obama, government agencies have poured tens of millions into nonprofit groups for anti-hydro-

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carbon campaigns.” Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman adds, “The federal government is currently spending $2.6 billion [per year] on climate change research (and only those who support the ‘carbon dioxide is a pollutant/major greenhouse gas’ receive funding).” This web of ideological soul-mates, like all movements, has its share of turf wars and dissension in the ranks, but, as disclosed on conference tapes I obtained, it shares a visceral hatred of capitalism, a worshipful trust that nature knows best, and a callous belief that humans are not natural but the nemesis of all that is natural. Lawyer Christopher Manes wrote “Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization.” Manes now practices tax litigation from his law office in Palm Springs, Calif., which he has not yet unmade. The legal branch of Big Green is varied. Earthjustice, (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) raked in $133.8 million in the past five years — comparable to many similar law organizations. Highly litigative attack groups receiving federal settlements are numerous and thriving, such as the Center for Biological Diversity ($29.2 million in the past five years).

It’s not unusual for heirs of big money to dream of unmaking the source of their wealth: Laura Rockefeller Chasin of the Rockefeller Family Fund once said, “It’s very hard to get rid of the money is a way that does more good than harm. One of the ways is to subsidize people who are trying to change the system and get rid of people like us.” The money reported to the Federal Election Commission is barely the beginning of what’s really happening. It doesn’t show you Big Green’s mobilized boots on the ground, the zooming Twitter tweets, the fevered protesters, the Facebook fanatics or the celebrities preaching carbon modesty from the lounges of their private jets. When self-righteous victims of Educated Incapacity insist that Big Oil outspends the poor little greenies, keep in mind the mountains of IRS Form 990s filed by thousands of groups, land trusts, lawyer outfits, foundations, and agendamakers, just waiting for America to wake up and smell Big Green’s untold hundreds of billions. RON ARNOLD, a Washington Examiner columnist, is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.

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A Closer Look at Ecuador, the Latest Market to Reopen to U.S. Beef Ecuador recently agreed to resume imports of U.S. beef for the first time since December 2003

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Markets that remain closed to U.S. beef due to BSE include China, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Morocco, Israel and South Africa. Saudi Arabia reopened to U.S. beef in 2004, but suspended imports after a BSE case was detected in California in April 2012.

Per capita GDP figures are 2012 World Bank estimates, in international dollars using purchasing power parity rates.

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Schneberger, Laura. “Bad Wolf! Now Go to Your Room”. Range Magazine. Winter 2006: 3840. Print. Southwestern Gray Wolf Management Plan FAQ. Texas Parks and Wildlife. N.p. n.d. Web. Stroup, Richard. The Endangered Species Act: Making Innocent Species the Enemy. Shaw, Jane S., ed. N.p. n.d. Print. Summary of the Endangered Species Act. United States Environmental Protection Agency. N.p. n.d. Web. Tackman, Alan. Personal Interview. 9 April. 2014. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southwestern

Regional Office, Mexican Wolf Recovery Program. Environmental Assessment For The Implementation Of A Southwestern Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus) Management Plan For Portions Of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas Preliminary Draft Version 2. Albuquerque, NM: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2012. Print. Vitter, David. “Abuse of Endangered Species Act threatens American’s private property rights”. Fox News. December 28, 2013. Web. Warren, Lydia. Cages Built to Protect Kids from Wolves at New Mexico Bus Stops Under Fire for ‘Demonizing’ the Endangered Animals. Daily Mail. N.p. October 30, 2013. Web.

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Little Cayuse Ranch – This horse & cow ranch operation south of Willard has HQ home, foreman’s home, hay barn, sheds, tack room, 3 excellent wells, 4 pastures. 80 acre irrigation pivot with water rights. Good fences & views. Priced reduced $798,900 Villanueva Ranch – a working cow ranch on Hwy 3. Ranch has 285 deeded acres & 4,450 acre NM Grazing Lease. Perimeter fenced with stock tanks and 15,000 gallon water storage tank w/pipeline drinkers. $157 per acre or $698,900 Available Now! Sombrero Ranch – near Tremintina, NM – 1,442 deeded acres, 3 pastures, 1 solar well, 1 submersible pumped well and 1 windmill well. Traditionally carries 32 a.u. year round. Located east of Las Vegas on Hwy 104. Owner will finance! Priced at $575,000 La Cueva Canyon Ranch – 1,595 deeded acres w/240 acres of BLM attached. Apache Mesa parcel SW of Las Vegas has tall pines, canyon springs, stock tanks, new fence on NE corner. Off the grid, secluded and beautiful. Owners will finance. Price is $677,875 Trigg Ranches – 720 deeded acres lies adjacent to La Cueva Canyon Ranch on Apache Mesa. Off the grid in the tall pines & power is close by! 720 acres priced at $288.900 & smaller 200 acre parcel available for $124,000! Other parcels available & owners will finance ... Ledoux, NM – Perimeter fenced 60 acre dry land terraced farm has overhead electric, sub-irrigated pasture and good all weather county road access! Located ½ mile north of Ledoux. Price reduced $228,000 & Owner will finance ... Anton Chico – 65 acre irrigated farm w/ditch rights. Bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & farm equipment go w/sale. Priced below appraisal at $698,900 & Owner can finance! La Loma (near Dilia) 12.8 acre farm has 3 bedroom red tiled roof home, barns, corrals, and equipment and storage buildings. Improvements are in good condition, water rights go with sale. Price is $248,900 – OBO Dilia Loop Road – This is a fenced 20+ acre parcel planted in alfalfa & grass, has 4 irrigated sections plus ditch rights and Pecos River frontage. Price is $231,500 Upper Anton Chico – This parcel has outstanding alfalfa production, it is an irrigated 7.5 acres, perimeter fenced, easy to work and water. Asking $82,500 58,000 Acres north of Roswell, NM, for sale, includes BLM, NM State Lease, Pecos river frontage & very nice HQ home! Price reduced to $204 per acre ... call for details!

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

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Stockton Pass: Beautiful SE AZ Ranch North of Willcox, Mountain Ranch 145 head AU, Deeded Surrounded by forest. Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane

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

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

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SCOTT THACKER, Assoc. Broker • P.O. Box 90806 • Tucson, AZ 85752 Ph: 520-444-7069 • Email: ScottThacker@Mail.com www.AZRanchReaIEstate.com • www.SWRanch.com

Stacie Ewing, Qualifying Broker/Owner 575-377-3382 (O) • 575-779-6314 (C)

$750,000 Rancho Del Aguila – 4738 leased acres 40 deeded Fenced, cross-fenced, well, water troughs in each of the 7 pastures, loading pens, pipe corrals, scale, 8 miles of water piping, 100-300 carrying capacity, dirt tanks, native grasses, bunk house/tackroom, storage, adobe home with newer addition, 2 large bedrooms, 1 bathroom, wood stove, fireplace & wall heaters, home is furnished, eat in kitchen

Buckhorn Ranch – 350 head ranch spread over 19,000 acres with 2,163 deeded acres, plus State, BLM & Forest. The ranch is found in one of Southeast Arizona's prime ranching valleys with picturesque setting & steeped in very old history. Asking $2,500,000 New Listing! La Cienega Ranch – NW Arizona, 500 head ranch, AZ State land, BLM & adverse plus ephemeral increases, remodeled headquarters, home & bunkhouse, airstrip. Great Price Per AUM! Asking $1,295,000 Reduced Price! Beloat Ranch – 300 head year-long, plus increases with rain, Asking $599,000

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Rock NV Natural Farm – Willcox, AZ, Organic or Natural Farm w/145 acres, home, barn, possible retail shop, w/ many irrigated pastures. Asking $580,000 Reduced Price with New Package! Dripping Springs Ranch – Globe AZ, 194 Head year-long, 10 deeded acres plus State & BLM. $399,000. Reduced Price: CK Ranch – Tonopah AZ, 50 acres deeded, 237 head year-long on State & BLM. The waters were recently reworked, & ephemeral increases can bump the numbers with rain. This ranch makes sense. Asking $399,000 We have more ranches available, please check our websites. All properties are listed by Arizona Ranch Real Estate, Cathy McClure, Designated Broker

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FOR SALE By owner. 22+ sections, 150 mother cows year-round. Very well watered and fenced. Nice Home. $1.2 million. Please call: James R. Evrage, 575-963-2340 or 575-687-3455

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LA LUZ PROPERTIES, LLC Lucy Maez, Qualifying Broker OFFICE: 505-454-8784 • CELL: 575-799-8784 laluz@newmexico.com • www.newmexicorealestatelaluzproperties.com

OFFERING THE HOOSER RANCH FOR SALE AT ONLY $465 PER ACRE Located 18 miles South of Springer, NM – 9 miles from I-25 • 18,087 ACRES IN COLFAX / MORA COUNTIES • 7 SOLAR POWER WELLS • SEVERAL STORAGE TANKS • WORKING CORRALS WITH SCALES • SPRINGS • CARRIES 500 HEAD MOTHER COWS OR 1200 YEARLINGS • 5000 SQ FT METAL SHOP/ WITH LIVING SPACE • 8 ANTELOPE PERMITS • MINERAL RIGHTS TRANSFERRED AT CLOSING • ATTACHED 3 CAR GARAGE • 3000 SQ FT 4 BEDROOM 3.5 BATH HOME • EQUIPMENT & MANY TOOLS INCLUDED •

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Southwest New Mexico Farms & Ranches Harden Cienga Ranch, Mule Creek NM. 36,000 acres, 716 head yearlong, great improvements. Priced at $3,500,000 with cattle Lazy NJ Ranch, Gleeson AZ. 7060 acres, 150 head yearlong, strong grass country. Priced at $1,350,000 Slash TL Ranch, Tombstone AZ. 14,000 acres, 300 head yearlong, improvements need attention. Priced at $1,500,000 Hunt Ranch Douglas AZ. 2462 acres with 2500 state lease, 103 head yearlong, well watered, easy to operate, paved access. Priced at $1,245,500

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If you are looking to Buy or Sell a Ranch or Farm in Southwestern NM or Southern AZ give us a call:

Sam Hubbell, Qualifying Broker 520-609-2546 Tom Hardesty – 520-909-0233

19.18 acres of farm land in La Mesa, NM – Located in La Mesa, NM. Paved road frontage and EBID surface water rights. Call for aerial map & EBID water rights info. Has ground water rights but no well. Farm located west of intersection of Lister Road & San Jose Road off Hwy 28 on north side of La Mesa. Sellers will divide. $326,060 27.50 Acre Farm – Consists of 3 tracts – 8 Acres, 8 Acres, & 11.5 Acres – will sell separately. Full EBID & shared irrigation well. Community water, electric, telephone & gas on Camunez Road to adjoining property. Beautiful farm land, great mountain & valley views. Take Highway 28 south to San Miguel, east or left on Highway 192, first right or south on Las Colmenas, then left or east on Camunez to end of pavement. Priced at $467,000 Fancher Ranch – Located southwest of Las Cruces, NM off Afton Road. 198 head permit, 210 acres deeded, 19,224 acres BLM and 4666 acres state land. 2 pastures, 3 wells, 1900 square foot home with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, bunk house, green house, horse barn, corrals, round pen, etc. Easy access 45 minutes from El Paso and Las Cruces. $550,000 10 acre farm – located south of La Mesa, NM. Beautiful farm with irrigation well and EBID water rights. Surrounded by other farms. Hwy 28, east on Afton Road, farm is on the north side. $179,900 $164,000 14.83 acre farm – located in the north valley of Las Cruces, NM, includes an irrigation well, EBID water rights (Elephant Butte Irrigation District), shop and barn. $279,900 14.39 acre farm – located in San Miguel, NM. Full EBID irrigation, electric, new irrigation well, new cement ditches, and new canal crossing. $245,000 Beautiful Albuquerque South Valley Farm – 78.9 acres reasonably priced at $1,762,500, consist of 2 parcels, owner will sell separately. North farm includes 43.0667 acres for $957,500 and south farm includes 35.7908 acres for $805,000. Shown by appointment only.

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

DAN DELANEY REAL ESTATE, LLC 318 W. Amador Avenue Las Cruces, NM 88005 (O) 575/647-5041 (C) 575/644-0776 nmlandman@zianet.com www.zianet.com/nmlandman

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LLC RICHARD RANDALS Qualifying Broker

We may not be the biggest, the fanciest or the oldest but we are reliable & have the tools. O: 575/461-4426 • C: 575/403-7138 • F: 575/461-8422

TOM SIDWELL Associate Broker

nmpgnewmexico@gmail.com • www.newmexicopg.com 615 West Rt. 66, Tucumcari, NM 88401

ST. JOHNS OFFICE: TRAEGEN KNIGHT P.O. Box 1980, St. Johns, Arizona 85936 Ph. 928-524-3740 • Fax 928-563-7004 • Cell 602-228-3494 email: info@headquarterswest.com

EASTERN ARIZONA FARM: Located in central Apache County, Arizona, between Alpine and Springerville along US Highway 180 in the Nutrioso Valley at the confluence of Colter Creek and Nutrioso Creek with over ½ mile of meandering Nutrioso Creek running through the property. Includes over 118 acres total with grand-fathered water rights for 33.8 acres of irrigated pasture. Farmable acreage has been utilized for livestock grazing on improved pasture and is irrigated via gravity flow dirt ditches. Beautiful views of Escudilla Mountain located in the heart of the White Mountains. There are numerous home sites on the property with excellent access including over ¼ mile of paved frontage along US Highway 180. Additional access is provided by county maintained roads on both the north and south boundaries. Price $1,200,000 REDUCED! $1,000,000 NORTHERN ARIZONA RANCH: Coconino County, Arizona between Flagstaff and Kingman just north of Interstate 40 in the Kaibab National Forest. The ranch contains nearly 8,000 deeded acres including two “in-holding” parcels within the forest boundary. The ranch carrying capacity is for 267 animal unit’s year-long and varies in elevation from 5,200 feet to 6,200 feet with the headquarters situated at 5,460 feet. Access is provided by Forest Road #142 approximately 6 miles north of Interstate 40 at Ashfork, Arizona. The ranch headquarters includes a ranch house with barn and corrals. The ranch is watered by over 30 earthen reservoirs scattered throughout each pasture. The ranch is fenced and cross-fenced into six main pastures with nine working/holding traps. The northern portion of the ranch is behind locked gate and could generate additional income from hunting, wood-cutting or sandstone quarries. Price: $3,800,000 EASTERN ARIZONA RANCH: North of St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, includes 1,760 deeded acres with State & BLM leases for 121 animal units yearlong. Newly improved with several miles of new pipeline, numerous storage tanks/drinkers supplied by four wells. Total ranch is over 11,000 acres with a five pasture rotational grazing system and one small holding trap. All ranch fences have been reworked including over two miles of new fencing. The main block of the ranch is behind locked gate providing the owner with great privacy and seclusion. Price: $700,000 EASTERN ARIZONA RANCH: Located two miles east of St. Johns, Arizona, runs 331 animal units yearlong on state, BLM and private grazing leases. The ranch includes 362 deeded acres with a full set of working ranch headquarter improvements and two houses each with a well powered by on-grid electricity. There are six wells in total and over four miles of pipeline dispersing water throughout the ranch as well as live water in the Little Colorado River. Price: $950,000

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in the New Mexico Stockman. Call: 505/243-9515. PAUL McGILLIARD Murney Associate Realtors Cell: 417/839-5096 • 800/743-0336 Springfield, MO 65804

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800-933-9698 day/eve. www.scottlandcompany.com • www.texascrp.com Ben G. Scott – Broker • Krystal M. Nelson • NM Qualifying Broker ■ CAPITAN, NM – Minutes from Ruidoso. A multi-purpose property w/15.6434 ac. +/-, laboratory/office, covered pens, home. Ideal for use for horse or cattle breeding, embryo transfer facility, vet clinic or many other uses in a beautiful area of NM. ■ NEW MEXICO GIANT- Central NM – Almost 200 sections, mostly deeded, well improved w/homes, barns, several sets of pens w/scales, watered by solar & electric powered subs, windmills, an extensive pipeline system, springs, spring-fed draws & canyons, earthen dams & river frontage, on pvmt. ■ SPRINGER, NM – TOP OF THE WORLD! Just east of town on pvmt. 9,200 ac. +/- ac. deeded, state-of-the-art improvements, 5000 ft. +/- home, two guests houses, employee housing, horse stalls w/breeding station, excellent improvements including fences, working pens, roping arena w/air operated release, new old-time cook house w/out-house. A must see property! ■ OLD HWY. 66. – Santa Rosa, NM – 12,718 ac. +/- deeded, 640 ac. state lease, this ranch is well improved & watered by springs, subs, windmills & earthen dams in an excellent location w/frontage on three different hwys. (development potential). ■ STATE OF THE ART! – Improved to the hilt w/homes, barns, cutting horse training facilities, excellent fencing, extremely well watered by wells ranging from 10ft to 209ft, equipped w/mills & subs, extensive pipeline system, springs & earthen dams, w/ abundance of old grass to start the season, on pvmt. w/paving to the headquarters (approx. 25 mi. from Old Hwy. 66 Ranch). ■ GUADALUPE CO., NM – 1,760 ac. +/- well improved w/homes, barns & pens, well watered, pvmt. & all weather roads from the interstate. ■ PICK THE SIZE RANCH YOU WANT – let’s divide this 10,432 ac. +/ranch in north central Texas, large lake w/permits for dam & right-to-impound in place to add tremendous aesthetic value to the ranch together w/hunting, boating, fishing, commercial & residential development potential. Can be bought by the pasture or in multiple pastures. Please view our websites for details on choice NM ranches, choice ranches in the high rain-fall areas of OK, irr./dryland/CRP &commercial properties.

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18,560 Acres 20 Miles NE of Roswell, NM ❙

680 Deeded Acres ❙ Good water; windmill & 17,900 State submergible tanks Lease Acres ❙ Good fences; 927 BLM Acres 4-strand barbwire 300 Animal ❙ $1,800,000 Units Year Long Newly remodeled Southwestern Home

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BAR M REAL ESTATE New Mexico Properties For Sale... SIX SHOOTER RANCH – Located approximately 15 miles west of Carrizozo, New Mexico in western Lincoln County. The ranch is comprised of 640 ± Deeded Acres, 961.4 New Mexico State Lease Acres and 11, 246 Federal BLM Lease Acres. Grazing capacity is controlled by a Section 3 BLM grazing permit for 175 Animal Units on a yearlong basis. Improvements include one residence, which has recently been remodeled, hay barn, storage sheds and corrals, all functional. Water is provided by three wells and an extensive buried pipeline system. Much of the water system has been replaced or installed new within the last five years. The Carrizozo Malpai lava outcrop forms the entire eastern boundary of the ranch. Access to the ranch is gated and locked from Highway 380. Public access is by permission only. Price: $1,300,000.

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BORDER RANCH – Located approximately 10 miles east of Columbus, New Mexico along the international boundary with Mexico along and on both sides of State Highway 9. The ranch is comprised of 1,910 ± Deeded Acres, 11,118 NM State Lease Acres and 52,487 Federal BLM Lease Acres. Grazing capacity is set by a Section 3 BLM grazing permit for 613 Animal Units. Livestock water is provided by three wells and a buried pipeline system. Five sets of working corrals are situated throughout the ranch. Adjoins the Mt. Riley Ranch to the west. Price: $1,100,000, but negotiable, come look & make an offer. Seller wants the ranch sold. MT. RILEY – Located approximately 30 miles northwest of Santa Teresa, New Mexico along and on both sides of State Highway 9. The southern boundary of the ranch is the international boundary with Mexico. The ranch is comprised of 160 ± Deeded Acres, 6921 NM State Lease Acres and 74,977 Federal BLM Lease Acres. Grazing Capacity is set by a Section 3 BLM grazing permit for 488 Animal Units on a yearlong basis. The biggest portion of the ranch is located north of the highway. The headquarters is located approximately one mile north of the highway. Headquarters improvements consist of a camp house, maintenance shop, storage sheds and a large set of working pens with scales. Water is provided by four wells and a buried pipeline system. Adjoins the Border Ranch to the east. Price: $725,000, but negotiable, come look & make an offer. Seller wants the ranch sold. Scott McNally, Qualifying Broker Roswell, NM 88202 Office: 575-622-5867 • Cell: 575-420-1237

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Don’t Miss a Single Issue! Stacie Ewing, Qualifying Broker/Owner 575-377-3382 ofc. • 575-779-6314 cell

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35 irrigated acres in Dilia, NM – NM Borders River, mostly fenced, Reduced Price! $449,900

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A AC Nutrition ..................................15 Ag New Mexico FCS ACA .................6 Agrow Credit Corporation...............24 Ken Ahler Real Estate Co., Inc .......68 American Galloway Breeders Assn ..65 American Water Surveyors .............49 American West Real Estate ......68, 73 Arizona Ranch Real Estate .............68 Artesia Trailer Sales .......................74 B Ken Babcock Sales ........................61 Bale Buddy Manufacturing, Inc ......51 Bar G Feedyard.............................13 Bar M Real Estate .........................73 Beaverhead Outfitters ....................70 BJM Sales & Service, Inc................61 Bobcat of Albuquerque ..................11 Border Tank ..................................31 Bovine Elite...................................61 Bradley 3 Ranch, Ltd.....................65 Brennand Ranch............................66 C C Bar Ranch..................................65 Casabonne Family .........................21 Dwanna Casabonne.......................23 Casey Beefmasters ........................65 CattleMax......................................61 Cattleman’s Livestock Commission .28 Caviness Packing Co., Inc ..............77 Don Chalmers Ford........................31 Clovis Livestock Auction.................25 Coba Select Sires...........................65 Conniff Cattle Co., LLC ..................59 Cooper Brothers ............................23 Cox Ranch Herefords .....................66

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