Cow Dust and Cattle Country wild cow trails

Black Range Tales, Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest. 
James A. McKenna
Mandy Lou
The Rawhiders Come to New Mexico
 
Today I am reading a chapter from a book carried in local Museums, the author was a prospector in Hillsboro NM in 1888 about the time this story takes place. 
Why did I choose it, the last part of the story will tell you. Hope you enjoy it. 
 

Today we were joined by Megan Richardson from the Slash Ranch. She will give us a rundown on what it has been like to have no wolf mitigation since the new Settlement between Environmental Organizations and the USFWS.  A settlement that effectively revoked the 10J part of the Mexican wolf recovery plan that ensures ranchers are given mitigation tools and removals for multiple and chronic livestock kills.  in 2015, the recovery plan and final rule allowed for removals of stock killing wolves.  The new settlement refused to take into account ranchers needs and burdens brought on by the program and has been allowing unmitigated unending livestock kills. 
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/uvkbqvcjgn6wvxsg/Megan_and_the_wolvesfinal764hb.mp3

Western Watershed are they distorting the truth and maligning southwest ranchers.
The things I have experienced and seen over the years has me questioning their methods.  
Colorado ranchers have no idea of the giant pile of doo doo they can expect if they think their wolf program will be ethical and support their operations. 
NM ranchers, still going and surviving, even after being maligned and liabled and threatened by govt. funded zealots. 

Hayden Forward presents the Heritage Waters Coalition analysis of Senator Martin Heinrich's Bill to apply WSR status to the San Francisco and Gila Rivers. 
Heritage Waters Coalition
Ranchers Have Rights
wildcowtrails@gmail.com

Please excuse our recording quality this episode, when you get three grandmas in the discussion, there's going to be some giggling, dogs and kids.  But the content is in the mix so take a listen. 

✯✯✯ Hearing Notice ✯✯✯


US House Committee on Natural Resources
Federal Lands Subcommittee


Legislative Hearing – Thursday, June 15, 2023


On Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 9:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold a legislative hearing on:


· H.R. 3397 (Rep. Curtis), To require the Director of the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw a rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating to conservation and landscape health.


The Honorable Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota, and The Honorable Mark Gordon, Governor of Wyoming, will testify at the hearing.
Hearing Link

This Saturday!
The New Mexico Federal Lands Council (NMFLC) will hold a meeting at 10:30 am on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at the Jackson Ranch Steakhouse (old KBob's), 1123 NW Frontage Road, Socorro, NM 87801.

A dutch-treat lunch will be part of the meeting, so we need a headcount please!


Please email newmexicofederallandscouncil@gmail.com to confirm your attendance.


Thanks!

Howard Hutchinson from AZNM Coalition of Counties joins us to go over the coalitions work on the BLM's attempt to rewrite law and history to the detriment of multiple users of BLM lands.  
But first an update on Sakett V. EPA the recent win in the US Supreme Court and what it means for property owners across the country trying to curtail government overreach.
Comments on the proposed BLM rule are due June 20, so please gear up to make them soon.  We will be posting Howard's draft comments and the rule itself but start with the podcast and get your fix on the issues. 
Here is a link supplied by Carolyn
https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2021/chapter-19/article-3/section-19-3-13/list of laws the BLM will be breaking if they move forward with this effort.  
It is extremely unfortunate that members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation do not understand the intent of congress on federal lands, and are willing to risk the stability of ranching and other multiple uses on these lands.  The following press release indicates there is no balance on our economically based federal lands and ranches.  This is not true theres massive wilderness designations and national parks already set aside for this supposed balance that other uses do not have access to.  ----more--------more----

 
Reps. Grijalva, Stansbury, Western Leaders Back BLM Rule Amidst Partisan Attacks
Call to highlight rule's benefits at 1:00pm EST on Thursday June 15 after House committee hears misguided bill to block BLM 's plan restore balance to land management
 
This Thursday June 15 at 1:00pm EST / 11:00am MST public lands users, congressional leaders and policy experts will respond to claims made by opponents of the Bureau of Land Management’s new Public Lands Rule, which will be the subject of a House Natural Resources Committee hearing earlier that morning.
Please RSVP to Chris Saeger (chris@bigmountainstrategy.com) to get call-in details for this opportunity to hear about the rule's benefits from these speakers:
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva
New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury
Keegan King, Founder and CEO Native Lands Institute
James Kenna, Retired California State Director for the Bureau of Land Management
Bailey Brennan, Public Lands Attorney, National Wildlife Federation
Danielle Murray, Senior Policy and Legal Director, Conservation Lands Foundation
Chris Marshall, Director of Research for Energy and Environment, Accountable.US
BLM’s new rule puts conservation on an equal footing with other multiple uses of public lands. It allows land to be leased for conservation alongside grazing, drilling, mining and even more extractive uses of public lands. No valid existing rights to use BLM lands for these purposes will be affected. The rule seeks to correct a system that has been wildly imbalanced:
90% of BLM lands are open to drilling;
60% are leased for grazing;
Only 14% are managed for conservation.
Learn more about the campaign to balance public lands management through the new rule at ActNowForPublicLands.org.