[Cdt-l] Cattle Dung Trail (was: Cattle Divide Trail )

Jim and_or Ginny Owen spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 9 19:29:51 CST 2010


Many thanks for deciding on my behalf what I saw and how I should interpret it. Just today I was getting tired of thinking, and hoping someone might come along and volunteer to do it for me, but I held out little hope as I had never met someone with both the ego and bad manners necessary to presume to be up to the job, and feared they may not exist. I was worried over nothing, thank you.
 
Jim

http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/


 


Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:11:17 -0700
From: dixon2mk at gmail.com
To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [Cdt-l] Cattle Dung Trail (was: Cattle Divide Trail )

If you only saw 2 instances of overgrazing in New Mexico you either weren't in New Mexico or you don't know how to identify the effects of overgrazing. I agree that there would be no CDT through much of New Mexico without the windmills and pumps used to water cattle, but that has nothing to do with overgrazing. Equally, consuming beef has nothing to do with overgrazing. Overgrazing has to do with the long term change in native species composition in fragile desert ecosystems, destruction of riparian areas and stream banks, erosion, and spread of invasive species. I doubt you have the ability to assess any of these from a simple walk through of the country. Go where you want with your opinions about cattle and development of the western US, but it sounds like the myth of the cow and the cowboy lives on in your mind.


MD

 		 	   		  
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