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Impact Report
| For plan | Range Management for New Mexico (Sierra County) |
| Date | October 24, 2008, 7:36 pm |
| For Objective | Long-term Show long-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Threatened and Endangers Species Threatened and endanger species in New Mexico have had negative effects on the economies of most small communities and have set back many ranchers and citizens in Sierra County. The Mexican Gray Wolf reintroduction program has been devastating for ranchers in the Gila area. The agent was approached by several ranchers in Sierra County to assist in anyway possible to help curve potential loses that the program has caused. Surrounding counties have also felt the effect of the program and in an effort to assist these citizens the agents from Catron, Socorro, Grant, and Sierra counties in partnership with the Range Improvement Task Force conducted several meetings to discuss potential solutions. An advisory meeting was held with the land owners to discuss possible options. The final outcome was to conduct a research based analysis to find potential cattle management techniques that could assist ranchers in curving losses, also to development literature and brochures that help identify wolves as well as what to do if there is a depredation and hold trainings for ranchers in collecting data. Follow up meetings were held to train data collectors and hand out collection kits. About forty interested citizens participated in the trainings and advisory meetings. This is an on going process that may assist producers in finding ways to manage for the wolf program and keep ranchers in Sierra County in business. |