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
Reward offered in shooting of 14 cattle in ND
The North Dakota Stockmen's Association is offering a $1,000 reward for information that helps authorities track down the person or people who shot and killed 14 cattle in a pasture in the southeastern part of the state. The state's largest rancher group can't recall a similar case involving the killing of so many cattle at once, Stockmen's Executive Vice President Julie Ellingson told The Forum newspaper. "Livestock producers devote their lives, their livelihoods to the cattle; they work hard to care for the animals," she said. "It's heartbreaking anytime you lose even one. It's hard to imagine how they must feel when something of this magnitude happens." The 13 cows and a calf belonging to David Kluge, of Hankinson, were killed late last week, according to authorities. The animals were valued at about $30,000, and Kluge said the loss goes beyond money. "We've got more than 120 years of breeding here," he said. "You can't buy that, and we've lost them."...more
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