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, July 26, 2010
Ranchers looking for more help on border
It's been four months since the murder of Cochise County rancher Robert Krentz and his neighbors are speaking out about the response made along the border. The murder put the ranching community and the nations border problems in the spot light and ranchers were hoping the tragedy might mean changes; changes some of them are still waiting to see. Cochise County rancher Gary Thrasher said, "I'm frustrated. I thought they could get something done a whole lot quicker than what they are. I thought they could move more people to the border with a simple stroke of a pen." Steve Brophy, the President of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association said, "Enough hasn't been done and it needs to be." And some of them said because the response hasn't changed neither has the foot traffic coming through. Patrick Bray the Executive Vice President of the Arizona Cattleman's Assoc. said, "The sad thing is that we're over a hundred days out from the murder of Robert Krentz and these guys say its status quos. Nothing has changed." But not all ranchers agree. Kelly Glenn-Kimbro was lucky enough to have the border patrol become her new neighbors...more
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