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, August 21, 2008
Dozens of dead cows - no blood, no gunshots - mystify ranchers Ranchers in Chino Valley dug trenches Wednesday afternoon to bury dozens of dead cows. "Whatever killed them killed them fairly quick" Tom Silva lives in the area and traps small animals for a living. He wanted to see what all the commotion was about. "There's no struggle. When an animal dies it sometimes struggles, it's legs move but these animals just look like they dropped over." No blood. No gunshots. No one knows exactly killed these beasts. "Has to be some kind of poison, I mean, to kill this many and not have any signs of struggle it must be a very toxic kind of poison." The Department of Agriculture was called to the scene to investigate. A vet from their Arizona Livestock Incident Response Team took samples from the animals....
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