This is a podcast about ranching rights, cowboys, cattle, wildlife, the land government overreach, pseudo environmentalism and its effects on small ranch families and your food supply.
It doesn’t even have a podcast category that fits it below. It’s about Agriculture and stewardship, and small family ranchers.
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Catron County NM Mexican wolf Emergency Declaration hearing part 2 4/3/2025
Family ranchers testify to the county about their financial and physical and mental challenges being forced to feed their livestock and income and economic security to Mexican wolves without proper management and equitable treatment from the USFWS.
https://wolvesarecruel.com/catron-county-nm-enacts-mexican-wolf-emergency/
4 Apr 2025
Catron County NM Mexican wolf Emergency Declaration hearing part 1 4/3/2025
Family ranchers testify to the county about their financial and physical and mental challenges being forced to feed their livestock and income and economic security to Mexican wolves without proper management and equitable treatment from the USFWS.
https://wolvesarecruel.com/catron-county-nm-enacts-mexican-wolf-emergency/
7 May 2024
Black Range Tales, Mandy Lou, The Rawhiders Come to New Mexico
Black Range Tales, Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest.
James A. McKenna
Mandy Lou
The Rawhiders Come to New Mexico
Today I am reading a chapter from a book carried in local Museums, the author was a prospector in Hillsboro NM in 1888 about the time this story takes place.
Why did I choose it, the last part of the story will tell you. Hope you enjoy it.
28 Apr 2024
Firsthand Account of Ranchers Dealing with Wolf Imposed Disaster
Today we were joined by Megan Richardson from the Slash Ranch. She will give us a rundown on what it has been like to have no wolf mitigation since the new Settlement between Environmental Organizations and the USFWS. A settlement that effectively revoked the 10J part of the Mexican wolf recovery plan that ensures ranchers are given mitigation tools and removals for multiple and chronic livestock kills. in 2015, the recovery plan and final rule allowed for removals of stock killing wolves. The new settlement refused to take into account ranchers needs and burdens brought on by the program and has been allowing unmitigated unending livestock kills.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/uvkbqvcjgn6wvxsg/Megan_and_the_wolvesfinal764hb.mp3
4 Apr 2024
Buckle Up Colorado, The Wolf Is at Your Door.
Western Watershed are they distorting the truth and maligning southwest ranchers.
The things I have experienced and seen over the years has me questioning their methods.
Colorado ranchers have no idea of the giant pile of doo doo they can expect if they think their wolf program will be ethical and support their operations.
NM ranchers, still going and surviving, even after being maligned and liabled and threatened by govt. funded zealots.
19 Jun 2023
Heritage Waters Coalition, presents Wild and Scenic Rivers and What it Means to NM Farmers and Ranchers
Hayden Forward presents the Heritage Waters Coalition analysis of Senator Martin Heinrich's Bill to apply WSR status to the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
Heritage Waters Coalition
Ranchers Have Rights
wildcowtrails@gmail.com
14 Jun 2023
Talking to Welda Grider about whether the government agencies can be held to their word
Please excuse our recording quality this episode, when you get three grandmas in the discussion, there's going to be some giggling, dogs and kids. But the content is in the mix so take a listen.
✯✯✯ Hearing Notice ✯✯✯
US House Committee on Natural Resources
Federal Lands Subcommittee
Legislative Hearing – Thursday, June 15, 2023
On Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 9:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold a legislative hearing on:
· H.R. 3397 (Rep. Curtis), To require the Director of the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw a rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating to conservation and landscape health.
The Honorable Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota, and The Honorable Mark Gordon, Governor of Wyoming, will testify at the hearing.
Hearing Link
This Saturday!
The New Mexico Federal Lands Council (NMFLC) will hold a meeting at 10:30 am on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at the Jackson Ranch Steakhouse (old KBob's), 1123 NW Frontage Road, Socorro, NM 87801.
A dutch-treat lunch will be part of the meeting, so we need a headcount please!
Please email newmexicofederallandscouncil@gmail.com to confirm your attendance.
Thanks!
6 Jun 2023
Covering the Supreme Court ruling on Sakett v. EPA and the BLM’s proposed Conservation and Landscape Health rules
Howard Hutchinson from AZNM Coalition of Counties joins us to go over the coalitions work on the BLM's attempt to rewrite law and history to the detriment of multiple users of BLM lands.
But first an update on Sakett V. EPA the recent win in the US Supreme Court and what it means for property owners across the country trying to curtail government overreach.
Comments on the proposed BLM rule are due June 20, so please gear up to make them soon. We will be posting Howard's draft comments and the rule itself but start with the podcast and get your fix on the issues.
Here is a link supplied by Carolyn
https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2021/chapter-19/article-3/section-19-3-13/list of laws the BLM will be breaking if they move forward with this effort.
It is extremely unfortunate that members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation do not understand the intent of congress on federal lands, and are willing to risk the stability of ranching and other multiple uses on these lands. The following press release indicates there is no balance on our economically based federal lands and ranches. This is not true theres massive wilderness designations and national parks already set aside for this supposed balance that other uses do not have access to. ----more--------more----
Reps. Grijalva, Stansbury, Western Leaders Back BLM Rule Amidst Partisan Attacks
Call to highlight rule's benefits at 1:00pm EST on Thursday June 15 after House committee hears misguided bill to block BLM 's plan restore balance to land management
This Thursday June 15 at 1:00pm EST / 11:00am MST public lands users, congressional leaders and policy experts will respond to claims made by opponents of the Bureau of Land Management’s new Public Lands Rule, which will be the subject of a House Natural Resources Committee hearing earlier that morning.
Please RSVP to Chris Saeger (chris@bigmountainstrategy.com) to get call-in details for this opportunity to hear about the rule's benefits from these speakers:
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva
New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury
Keegan King, Founder and CEO Native Lands Institute
James Kenna, Retired California State Director for the Bureau of Land Management
Bailey Brennan, Public Lands Attorney, National Wildlife Federation
Danielle Murray, Senior Policy and Legal Director, Conservation Lands Foundation
Chris Marshall, Director of Research for Energy and Environment, Accountable.US
BLM’s new rule puts conservation on an equal footing with other multiple uses of public lands. It allows land to be leased for conservation alongside grazing, drilling, mining and even more extractive uses of public lands. No valid existing rights to use BLM lands for these purposes will be affected. The rule seeks to correct a system that has been wildly imbalanced:
90% of BLM lands are open to drilling;
60% are leased for grazing;
Only 14% are managed for conservation.
Learn more about the campaign to balance public lands management through the new rule at ActNowForPublicLands.org.
30 Apr 2023
Upcoming Episodes and Podcast Agenda
We've had a short hiatus during a lot of catch-up ranch work and a really unfortunate accident that is going to be ok with time. With the evolution of the podcast we want to discuss where we are going and pursue some new ideas.
Resources
Wildlife Livestock Conflict Resolution Act
Public Rangeland Improvement Act
Taylor Grazing Act
Federal Lands Management and Policy Act
BLM and Interior Dept. new regulations proposal. Comments and link
Coalition of Arizona/New Mexico Counties
Ranchers Have Rights
12 Apr 2023
The Endangered Species Act, where it is, where it was and where it’s going.
Have you ever wondered why your small rural town or community is so broke. Well we have some answers for you. Unfortunately, one US law has the authority to completely ignore all your constitutional rights. Rights the urban centers take for granted.
3 Apr 2023
Surviving the Mexican Wolf Program, barely
Twenty-five Years into the Mexican Wolf recovery program, and it's been a ride.
We will use this episode to scratch the surface of how wolves have impacted ranchers in the southwest, the way they are managed and our personal experiences with surviving in ranching with these animals on the landscape.
28 Mar 2023
What’s Up With That Grazing Permit
Where do ranchers get their rights on federally administered land? It might surprise you. It sure would surprise the USFS if they actually read the law and their own regulations. Carolyn takes the reigns and points out how The Homestead Act, The Stockraising Homestead Act, The Congress, and The President were all instrumental in ensuring Ranchers Have Rights.
14 Mar 2023
Grazing in Wilderness, an Historic Perspective
The wilderness and USFS allotments were not set aside to preserve they were actually set aside to provide economic benefits to local communities.
This week we take a look at historical references to livestock cattle and grazing and how ranching began in the southwest, centuries before the USFS became a thing.
How did native Americans and Historic Spaniards start the cattle populations in the Gila Region long before settlers under the homestead act even moved into the region. Nope the cattle are no more infiltrators than wild horses. And Carolyn is pretending to be a pilot with her new headphone Mic combo.
6 Mar 2023
Discussing The Wild Cow Killing in the Gila Wilderness
How did a small herd of feral cattle become the focus of anti-ranching radical environmentalists and how did the Gila Forest Service contribute to the brutal slaying of this cow herd. The background history and tragic story behind the cow slaughter on the Gila.
Sources
ranchershaverights.com
Wilderness Designation and Livestock Grazing: The Gila Example NMSU RITF publication 83
28 Feb 2023
Feb 27, 2023 trailer. Cow Tracks on the Trail
Introducing Cow Dust and Cattle Country, a podcast on ranching in the west and it’s challenges, especially when small family ranches, must depend on federally administered grazing allotments. Laura Schneberger and Carolyn Nelson, both lifelong ranch wives and ranch partners, discuss the history of federally administered grazing allotments and ongoing issues facing those family run operations today. Issues like dealing with federal agencies that administer the lands for public and private uses, endangered species management, and the difficulty of always being at risk of the next sue and settle lawsuit designed to end grazing on federally administered allotments.
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