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Impact Report

For plan Range Management for New Mexico (Catron County)
Date October 31, 2010, 5:57 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report Most of Catron County is public land. Most ranchers must work with public land management and other governmental natural resources management agencies. Above average precipitation tends to lessen agency rancher conflicts. However the Mexican Grey wolf continues to be a problem for Catron County Ranchers. Changes in policy have reduced the rancher’s available options to deal with depredating wolves. Several Ranches have removed all of their cattle in the past year as a result of wolf depredation. I continue to work with producers and the County government to develop policies and management practices to lessen the impact of the wolf. Work was done with the County and the Range improvement task force to draft comments regarding the full endangered listing of the Mexican Grey Wolf. I am working with a group of producers and resource management agencies and the county natural resource coordinator to develop a whole watershed management plan and apply for funding to implement it. The County Natural resource coordinator and I are organizing the community Acequias in Catron County into a countywide group on order to provide them with better opportunities to apply for Arizona water settlement funds to enhance the efficiencies of their irrigation systems.