President`s Message

by Alisa Ogden

As you will read in more depth in this issue of the Stockman, it was a good day for private property rights when the Hages finally won their case after so many years. The sad part is that Wayne, Jean and Helen Chenoweth Hage are not alive to savor the victory.

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New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn

The Beef Promotion Operating Committee has recommended a $45.8 million Cattlemen`s Beef Board budget for Fiscal 2009, reflecting a sharp 6.6 percent decrease from the $49 million budget for Fiscal 2008.

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To the Point

by Caren Cowan

Some of my marginal days in this job are the ones when the phone rings and a television reporter is on the other end of the line. They cheerfully ask how I am doing, as is only polite. The answer is that I am probably doing better at that moment than I am going to be in a few seconds.

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The Wilderness Man (Likely) cometh!

by TOM COOPER

Accompanying this article is a listing prepared from a New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (NMWA) schedule titled "New Mexico`s Wilderness Potential." The listing includes 2,917,366 acres in 164 areas located throughout New Mexico, and many of the 33 counties! National Conservation Areas (NCAs) can be proposed in addition to Wilderness Areas, as is the case in Doña Ana County.

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Cattle Growers and Wool Growers hold joint meeting in Ruidoso

New Mexico`s Old Times and Old Timers

The Demise of Governor Albino Perez

The Alamo in Texas fell to the Mexican Army on March 6, 1836, but the Texans regained the advantage over the Mexicans at the battle of San Jacinto on April 20 of the same year.

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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Bobbi Jeen OLSON "The Singing Cowboy"

by JIM OLSON

One of the great American icons of the West is the singing cowboy. For many years, starting in the late 1920`s and up through the early 1960`s, you could count on being able to watch your television and see the "good guy", usually in a white hat, doing what was morally right, and also protecting the weak and innocent.

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NMSU Animal and Range Sciences Spring/Summer graduates announced

Beef Council Bullhorn

Eric Michael Baker was a range science major from Silver City, N.M. He plans to work for a government agency, such as the BLM. Eric was a member of the Range Club.

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