Rancher Takes an Unconventional Path to Restoring His Land
“Chris Gill, 72, together with his family own Circle Ranch in far-West Texas. He thinks of the desert habitat, its flora and fauna, as a single system.”
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Turning a Dangerous Arroyo Into a Flood Irrigation Resource in the Deserts of Far-West Texas
Here is how we harvested water out of Circle Ranch’s worst gully, and used it to re-wet 5-miles of desert meadows.
Understanding Mule Deer and Winter Feeding Fact Sheet
Supplemental feeding of deer and elk – especially in winter – is widespread across the West, including far-West Texas and New Mexico. In this report, the Mule Deer Foundation concludes that, “At best, feeding has …
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Circle Ranch: A Chihuahuan Desert Sky Island
Laurence Parent’s stunning pictures of the Sierra Diablos in far-West Texas. Renowned Texas author and photographer Laurence Parent has done 44 books. His latest, Colorado: A Photographic Journey was published in 2016. New Mexico: A Photographic Journey …
Capturing a West Texas Winter Wonderland
“Texas Monthly’s beautiful photography of winter scenes in far-West Texas.
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10,000-Year Clock Next Door to Circle Ranch
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is building a giant clock inside a Texas mountain from CNBC.
States Confront the Spread of a Deadly Disease in Deer
The creation of CWD – a new wildlife disease – in a Colorado experimental station, and its subsequent spread, proves the adage that “Industrial agronomic principles applied to ecological systems will almost always cause harm.”
Leave It to Beavers
Beavers are still found in Rio Grande tributaries including the Devils and Pecos rivers. Friends of wildlife in far-West Texas should encourage their reintroduction in the narco-infested lower Juarez Valley, between Juarez and Ojinaga. In …
In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas
“Most likely, people were in Alaska by 20,000 years ago, at least,” say the scientists conducting the study reviewed below. This conclusion contradicts the accepted view that humans arrived in North America around 10,000 …
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Greening the Chihuahuan Desert
Chihuahuan ranchers are at the forefront of restorative grazing practices.
The Great Nutrient Collapse
Food nutrition is changing. This article blames atmospheric carbon, ignoring genetic modification of plants combined with the effect of the agricultural poisons our food plants have been engineered to survive. For example, a bushel of corn weighs …