Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property
rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing,
energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a
few items on western history, western literature and the sport
of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of
Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative
assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, November 08, 2010 Pronghorns' disappearance a mystery As
Bill Miller looks across his ranch that spreads out under the
vast West Texas sky, a once-common sight has became a rarity:
the pronghorn. “They’re just part of the landscape,” Miller
said. “They should be there, and they’re not.” A symbol of the
West, pronghorn have a body type somewhat like a deer with
distinctive white stripes on their faces and necks and white
markings that come halfway up their sides. The flash of white
hair on their behinds stands on end to signal