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.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
After Ike, livestock dying for lack of water State agriculture agent Tyler Fitzgerald barely had time to talk Monday as he clambered across storm-ravaged pastureland in Chambers County near the Gulf Coast. Fitzgerald was busy trying to save cattle, horses and other animal survivors left in the muddy wake of Hurricane Ike, which caused 15- to 18-foot surges of ocean water to pour across the farms and ranches along the Southeast Texas coast over the weekend. "I don't have any statistics yet," Fitzgerald said through the sputterings of a weather-weakened cell phone. "But we have a lot of dead animals."....
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