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Impact Report
| For plan | Applied Reproductive Management for Cattle (Rio Arriba County) |
| Date | October 26, 2010, 7:37 pm |
| For Objective | Long-term Show long-term objectives |
| Impact Report | 2009-2010 Program Year Once again the agent assisted with monitoring ranges on Ghost Ranch, Jarita Mesa and Cerro Azul. Ghost Ranch and Cerro Azul are both winter ranges consisting of 22,000 aces each. The Jarita Mesa range is a spring through fall range comprising of approximately 51,000 acres. As for Jarita Mesa the ten year Environmental Assessment (EA) permit renewal for livestock grazing is in its final comment period. Livestock numbers have been reduced from 581 cow calf pairs to 471 cow calf pairs. Feral horses continue to be an issue on this range. The Forest Service states that they will manage the number of horses in order to be compliant with management in future years. The Ghost Ranch and the Cerro Azul both received an average amount of precipitation for the year. However, precipitation was spotty and not all of the pastures and stock tanks received enough precipitation to make it a great forage production year. For the most part Ghost Ranch and the Cerro Azul will have enough forage to supply livestock at the current stocking rate to make it through the winter grazing months. Due to the availability of adequate forage supply to pregnant cows it should be another good calf crop for the coming year. |