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Impact Report
| For plan | Range Management for New Mexico (Catron County) |
| Date | October 14, 2008, 9:59 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Much of the day to day activity in the Catron County office is spent dealing with natural resource issues. Topics include endangered species, water, wildlife and land management agency regulations. The past few years have seen excellent forage production in most of Catron County. This has been a welcome change to six or so drought years that preceded them. Despite the abundance of forage many ranchers are still facing livestock reductions on their allotments. Regulatory issues along with the Mexican grey wolf reintroduction program continue to put pressure on ranchers who depend on forage from public lands. Work has been done to assist ranchers in developing management plans to deal with the impacts of the Mexican grey wolf. To date no changes in management have resulted in significant changes in wolf depredation. The problems associated with the Mexican grey wolf program will continue to increase as the wolf numbers increase. The possibility is very real that ranchers will be forced out of business. More time and research needs to be spent on this issue to be able to provide ranchers with the information need to make informed management and business decisions As a result of these efforts a program was organized to bring affected producers and the Range Improvement Task Force together to address the impacts of the wolves on livestock. Producers provided input on the development of data collection system. Two trainings were conducted to teach producers and others affected by the wolves how to complete and submit data to The Range Improvement Task Force. Hopefully over time this data can be used to develop management systems to reduce livestock depredations. |