The Bureau of Land Management and The Conservation Fund have protected 7,440 acres of land about 35 miles east of Roswell for key habitat for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken. The land is within a 58,000-acre Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) in Chaves County. “There are few things we do in our professional lives that are as critical and long-lasting as today’s acquisition for the prairie-chicken,” said Doug Burger, Pecos District Manager for the BLM. “The Conservation Fund was extremely helpful in working with the landowner to accomplish the acquisition and we want to express our deepest admiration and thanks for their efforts.” The Conservation Fund negotiated the purchase of the land. When the sale was finalized on March 3, the Fund sold it to the BLM, which received funding from the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to complete the transaction. The LWCF funding was provided to the BLM with strong support from New Mexico Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall. “We’re especially pleased to partner with the BLM to protect one of the best strongholds for the lesser prairie-chicken in the nation,” said Mike Ford, director of the southwest office of The Conservation Fund. “Senators Bingaman and Udall championed this project in Congress and we greatly appreciate their support and commitment to preserving the state’s natural legacy.”...read moreCOMMENT: Let's see, there is a document floating around Interior listing the Lesser Prairie Chicken Preserve as a potential National Monument; the head of the Southwest Region for the Conservation Fund is a former NM BLMer; and NM BLM gets allocated over a million bucks to add acreage to the preserve. I'd say we have a National Monument in the making.
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A NATIONAL MONUMENT NOPE THIS IS A NATIONAL BLUNDER OF TAXPAYER FUNDS
IN THE WORST SAMPLE. AS IF THEY DO NOT SEE WE ARE IN THE WORST FINANCIAL CRISIS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AT THIS TIME.
BOO TO YOU ALL THAT DID THIS
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