Cow Dust and Cattle Country

Cow Dust and Cattle Country

This is a podcast about ranching rights, cowboys, cattle, wildlife, the land government overreach, pseudo environmentalism and its effects on small ranch families and your food supply. It doesn’t even have a podcast category that fits it below. It’s about Agriculture and stewardship, and small family ranchers. patreon.com/CowDustandCattleCountry

Episodes

April 4, 2025 52 mins

Family ranchers testify to the county about their financial and physical and mental challenges being forced to feed their livestock and income and economic security to Mexican wolves without proper management and equitable treatment from the USFWS.

 

https://wolvesarecruel.com/catron-county-nm-enacts-mexican-wolf-emergency/

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Family ranchers testify to the county about their financial and physical and mental challenges being forced to feed their livestock and income and economic security to Mexican wolves without proper management and equitable treatment from the USFWS.

 

https://wolvesarecruel.com/catron-county-nm-enacts-mexican-wolf-emergency/

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Black Range Tales, Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest. 

James A. McKenna

Mandy Lou

The Rawhiders Come to New Mexico

 

Today I am reading a chapter from a book carried in local Museums, the author was a prospector in Hillsboro NM in 1888 about the time this story takes place. 

Why did I choose it, the last part of the story will tell you. Hope you enjoy it. 

 

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Today we were joined by Megan Richardson from the Slash Ranch. She will give us a rundown on what it has been like to have no wolf mitigation since the new Settlement between Environmental Organizations and the USFWS.  A settlement that effectively revoked the 10J part of the Mexican wolf recovery plan that ensures ranchers are given mitigation tools and removals for multiple and chronic livestock kills.  in 2015, the recovery plan...

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Western Watershed are they distorting the truth and maligning southwest ranchers.

The things I have experienced and seen over the years has me questioning their methods.  

Colorado ranchers have no idea of the giant pile of doo doo they can expect if they think their wolf program will be ethical and support their operations. 

NM ranchers, still going and surviving, even after being maligned and liabled and threatened by govt. funde...

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Hayden Forward presents the Heritage Waters Coalition analysis of Senator Martin Heinrich's Bill to apply WSR status to the San Francisco and Gila Rivers. 

Heritage Waters Coalition

Ranchers Have Rights

wildcowtrails@gmail.com

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Please excuse our recording quality this episode, when you get three grandmas in the discussion, there's going to be some giggling, dogs and kids.  But the content is in the mix so take a listen. 

✯✯✯ Hearing Notice ✯✯✯ US House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee Legislative Hearing – Thursday, June 15, 2023 On Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 9:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Com...
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Howard Hutchinson from AZNM Coalition of Counties joins us to go over the coalitions work on the BLM's attempt to rewrite law and history to the detriment of multiple users of BLM lands.  

But first an update on Sakett V. EPA the recent win in the US Supreme Court and what it means for property owners across the country trying to curtail government overreach.

Comments on the proposed BLM rule are due June 20, so please gear up to m...

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April 30, 2023 34 mins

We've had a short hiatus during a lot of catch-up ranch work and a really unfortunate accident that is going to be ok with time.   With the evolution of the podcast we want to discuss where we are going and pursue some new ideas.

Resources

Wildlife Livestock Conflict Resolution Act

Public Rangeland Improvement Act

Taylor Grazing Act

Federal Lands Management and Policy Act

BLM and Interior Dept. new regulations proposal. Comments an...

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Have you ever wondered why your small rural town or community is so broke.  Well we have some answers for you.  Unfortunately, one US law has the authority to completely ignore all your constitutional rights.  Rights the urban centers take for granted. 

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Twenty-five Years into the Mexican Wolf recovery program, and it's been a ride. 

We will use this episode to scratch the surface of how wolves have impacted ranchers in the southwest, the way they are managed and our personal experiences with surviving in ranching with these animals on the landscape. 

 

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March 27, 2023 53 mins

Where do ranchers get their rights on federally administered land?  It might surprise you.  It sure would surprise the USFS if they actually read the law and their own regulations. Carolyn takes the reigns and points out how The Homestead Act, The Stockraising Homestead Act, The Congress, and The President were all instrumental in ensuring Ranchers Have Rights. 

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The wilderness and USFS allotments were not set aside to preserve they were actually set aside to provide economic benefits to local communities. 

This week we take a look at historical references to livestock cattle and grazing and how ranching began in the southwest, centuries before the USFS became a thing.

How did native Americans and Historic Spaniards start the cattle populations in the Gila Region long before settlers under ...

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How did a small herd of feral cattle become the focus of anti-ranching radical environmentalists and how did the Gila Forest Service contribute to the brutal slaying of this cow herd. The background history and tragic story behind the cow slaughter on the Gila. 

Sources

ranchershaverights.com

Wilderness Designation and  Livestock Grazing: The Gila Example   NMSU RITF publication 83

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Introducing Cow Dust and Cattle Country, a podcast on ranching in the west and it’s challenges, especially when small family ranches, must depend on federally administered grazing allotments. Laura Schneberger and Carolyn Nelson, both lifelong ranch wives and ranch partners, discuss the history of federally administered grazing allotments and ongoing issues facing those family run operations today. Issues like dealing with federal ...

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