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.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Mountain lion that stalked Ariz. hiker killed Authorities have killed a mountain lion that had stalked a hiker and his dog in a popular recreation area in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. Coronado National Forest spokeswoman Heidi Schewel said Sunday that the hiker had been walking with his dog on a trail Saturday when he saw the mountain lion following him. She said the hiker shouted and made himself look bigger by waving his arms - "everything that he was supposed to do," Schewel said. When the animal got closer, the hiker fired two warning shots into the air with his gun. When the lion continued to advance, he shot at it, scaring it away. Schewel said the hiker didn't know whether he hit the big cat. U.S. Forest Service officials found the incident troubling because the lion showed no fear of humans....
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