Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
BREAKING: 12 homes and 7 outbuildings destroyed in Willow Creek, fire in the Gila at 70,000 acres
Twelve summer homes and seven outbuildings have burned in the Willow Creek subdivision as the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire has now grown to 70,000 acres and continues to burn uncontained in the Gila. The fire is still zero percent contained at this time due to wind and aggressive fire behavior, which is expected to continue throughout today and Friday, according to Sharma Hutchinson with the Gila National Forest. A pre-evacuation is in place for the town of Mogollon, as the fire has dropped down into a canyon near there, she said. If the fire continues to back into the wind there, the town of Mogollon could be compromised as well...more
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