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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Northern NM forest closing roads to protect wildlife

The Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico will close forest roads between the Rock Wall and Taos along N.M. 518 and forest roads between Taos and Angel Fire along U.S. 64 Thursday to protect designated wildlife wintering areas. Gates on those roads will remain locked until May 2. Some of the roads were closed earlier because of icy and dangerous conditions. Carson officials say people who plan to travel on the remaining open forest roads should be cautious because recent snow and rain in the area have made travel dangerous...more

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: The best thing the New Forest Service can do for wildlife wintering ranges is to reduce
overuse of the browse on these ranges. This overuse is caused primarily by the overstocking of elk. This not only hurts deer who also use the same winter ranges, but causes serious erosion problems on these sites. They are usually south facing and the snow melt off early leaving soft ground that is churned into loose soil by the thousands of elk trying to survive in a limited environment. Roads are not the problem! Go to Estes Park in the winter.; 6:22 AM