I am sorry, but I think this article on NM’s anti- cockfight crusade can be quoted to make its own argument against the ban. “After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers, backed up by a helicopter, slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus was not illegal immigration or drug smuggling, but a less pressing …
Tag: The West
Kent Christopher RIP plus Sage Synchronicity
My old friend Kent Christopher died in a skiing accident at Targhee a couple of weeks ago. He was only 54, a great falconer and a vitally important voice for the sage grouse and the sage ecosystem. I had known him since he was a college kid in Maine. I last saw him when frequent …
Walk
Last week’s walk photos, as promised. Libby on the “Rio” Salado. It can be frightening in summer floods, believe it or not, but right now we can walk in it. Desert Bighorn tracks in the bottom of the box– rounder in front than mule deers’. The proprietors of Casa Q with desert tools– pack, Swaro …
The Box
Spring weather led us out in search of a legendary canyon this weekend. It is only twelve or so miles away, but all of this is off- pavement and a lot is through a river bed. Finally , you have to cross two ranches and I wasn’t sure what “jurisdiction” the box itself was in. …
A few photos
Our New Year’s run. Looking for hares: Plummer blurs by (forgive quality of the pic but I had to give credit to a fat 10- year- old lurcher who can still press a hare!) Coming back after a run.Antelope! (luckily I could call off the hounds– good dogs!) Tazis run by. Figures in a big …
Joe Brown
Chas has a link to an excellent piece on the fine and neglected western writer JPS (Joseph Paul Summers) Brown. I met Joe Brown when we were both signing books at a sadly defunct bookstore in Tucson. I had brought a copy of his Forests of the Night, which could give Cormac McCarthy a run …
The Ranch
We often speak of “The Ranch”– Lee Henderson’s acreage of miles of high desert grassland, canyon, and foothill, located on La Jencia Plain under the Magdalenas and not touching pavement on any side. It is an idael place to run dogs and fly falcons. I thought you might like to see a few pix. Here …
Little Red Riding Hood Was Right
It seems an article of faith in American environmental circles that wolves are harmless. While (until recently) there was no record of modern North American wolves harming anyone, a bit of research shows this to be an anomalous situation. Wolves of the exact same species preyed on humans in Europe and Russia; wolves even smaller …
Excuses & Around the Web
Bear with me a bit, dear readers! I have just begun my eagle book, mentioned below, and am stll shaking down a schedule. Also doing last reread of my collaboration- in translation of Cherkassov’s 1865 Notes of an East Siberian Hunter with Vladimir — a labor of love that will not be an easy sell! …