On Assignment; On Assignment; Library Footage - Harvey Ranch in Alamagordo - Part 1

If there's anything, anyway, you can handle the walls, if there's some kind of compromise. There's anyway, you can deal with that. And then I always say, at the end, there's anything you want to add, so we'll get what you want. Great, I hope you first call the image here to the left. There's a big cow making this little cow. Oh, yeah. It's 91.39, yeah. I sold a calf from that cow last year, a heifer for $2,000, giving an idea. Weaned calf. And the bull calf she's got this year is by a bull that has close to a million dollar evaluation. He was a reserve yearling champion at Denver last year and won his class as a calf. He'll be up there again this year. How many pounds of wheat comes from, is that what these are for? Well, these are breeding cattle and what we'll do is sell the steers.

You know, eventually people sell the steers for beef or the heifers that don't go into a replacement program. What? And these are beautiful. As I said, basically, is there any, are there any conditions under which you could, and the ranchers could tolerate reintroduction of the locals? I really don't think so. Not into a condition where they're out in the wild and breeding and free roaming. You know, they've been talking about reintroduction and putting them in and closure or something of this type. And that'd be fine, but we don't want them out roaming around because they're going to spread. They were all over these mountains back at the turn of the century, from here they came out of Mexico

and they spread all the way to the Canadian border. And they were a huge, huge problem. There's nothing good about them that I can think of. There's no reason to have those wolves reintroduced. And I don't know any way that we would want them or be able to accommodate them if they were allowed to roam and breed. And then lastly, the claim by the environmentalist is that the species is going to become extinct and that they're a very special kind of wolf. It turns out they're real different than the timber wolf. And just in terms of creatures, they're a very unique animal. And they contributed to much of the legends in part of the West and this kind of thing. So basically I'm just wondering, other than economics, is there any point where we should be concerned that we stand the chance of causing to be extinct? Because it literally is within 20 years that there are only 30 of them around.

They're limited gene pool. They could be extinct in 10, 20 years. Is there any point that you're concerned about preserving the species just because we're causing the species to be extinct? Well, I'm sure not in favor of totaling extinction for the wolf or any other species. But at the same time, I'm not for total extinction of the rancher or the livestock industry. And one's more important than the other and it's obviously the fact that the human beings on this planet take precedence over the animals and that's why God intended it. So I don't want to see them extinct and I think there may be ways to keep them from becoming extinct. But I think the environmental groups that tout re-introduction ought to devise a way to maybe put them in a enclosed type of a preserve or something of this type. And if they want to have a wild animal park that absolutely doesn't allow them to escape into the real world, then I wouldn't oppose that at all. But I really see no way to get along with them, you know,

side by side with our industry and what we're trying to do. And I just don't belong in this world today, in this modern world, other than as an entity that was here in the past. I just had a wood question now, I remember. I understood that when the Fish and Wildlife went spear and now it's the reintroduction program, it was supposed to be clear that this would be a non endangered species, if they're on your land, you could kill them for a trap form or whatever. They didn't tell you that? No, we haven't been told anything like that at all. In fact, one of our primary concerns was that we would lose our ability to control the coyotes or predators because of their endangered status. And unless something has changed or that act is amended, as far as I understand it, then I don't think that we'll be able to control or continue with our animal damage control as we can now. Okay, lastly, did I leave anything out or would there one last thing you'd like to add?

Well, I'd like to mention another aspect of the wolf reintroduction and what effect it'll have on hunting. I think a lot of hunters are very concerned about this. And I know that when you read some of the articles that have been written up in the Yellowstone area in northern Montana, in places like this where there are a few wolves around, especially northern Montana, the people hunting the elk or caribou and deer and this type of thing, you've had a real problem with the wolves coming in and getting to their kills before they do and fighting them off or else actually stalking the people that are trying to hunt. And I know some people that hunt elk in certain areas that have had this problem. Also, out here on White Sands Missile Rains, there's a really good viable herd of big horn sheep that have been put in and established there. They have a herd of orcs or eyebecks. It's a similar, each species is similar. And there have been a lot of money spent to establish these herds out on White Sands and it would be a shame to see them go by the wayside

just for the sake of reintroducing some wolves. And I think the hunters really stand to lose quite a bit if the wolves are reintroduced. Is it the wolf thing that into your impression would thrive immensely and within no time to be back to a very large population and after reintroduction? But I have no question in my mind, no doubt, because they are really known to be prolific breeders and they'll go to great efforts to continue their kind and to keep breeding and continue to multiply. So I have no doubt that they'll multiply and spread all over this territory. So that'll do it then. You

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