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New Mexico’s feral cows will be shot from helicopter, US Forest Service says - CNN
The US Forest Service will move forward with killing feral cattle in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, officials say. The agency issued its decision in a news release on Thursday, stating the ...
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New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness Turns 100 - The Durango Herald
New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness turns 100 By Andrew Gulliford Fort Lewis College. Friday, Oct 11, 2024 1:10 PM Updated Friday, Oct. 11, 2024 1:20 PM.
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Forest Service to gun down feral cows in New Mexico via helicopter - New York Post
Gunmen will hop in a helicopter and take down feral cows in the New Mexico wilderness next week in a scene straight out of an action movie. The hunt is meant to protect areas of the vast Gila ...
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Feral cattle roam New Mexico wilderness. Federal agents plan to hunt them from the sky - Los Angeles Times
A feral bull is seen along the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico in 2020. A legal battle is playing out over a federal plan to kill feral cattle in the Gila Wilderness, which officials say ...
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Four to explore: Some of Northern New Mexico's best wilderness areas
New Mexico boasts 39 official wilderness areas, but some of the most intriguing are near Santa Fe.
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New Mexico: US officials authorize helicopter with shooters to kill feral cows in the Gila Wilderness
Officials have given a kill order to wildlife experts in southwestern New Mexico as part of an effort to eliminate feral cows in the Gila Wilderness. The nearly 150 cows in the area have acted ...
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Exploring the Remote Gila Wilderness in New Mexico - The New York Times
On a crisp spring morning, I trusted a horse — a bay named Sino — to show me the vast Gila Wilderness of southern New Mexico. Red rock walls rose beside us as we wove back and forth across a ...
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A forbidding wilderness in New Mexico - The Week
Encompassing some 1,190 square miles of forested mountains and desert canyons in southern New Mexico, the Gila Wilderness is not a visitor-friendly national park, said Elaine Glusac in The New ...
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Meet the park rangers protecting the New Mexican wilderness
The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northern New Mexico is 45,000 acres of Mars-like landscapes, made up of weathered rock-and-mineral masses known as concretions.
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Bear harassing visitors in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness - MSN
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A bear, who is not afraid of humans, has been harassing visitors to part of New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness during a series of close encounters of the “bear kind.” The ...
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Iron Fire in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness now at 92 percent containment
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Iron Fire, burning in the Gila Wilderness north of Silver City, is now at 92 percent containment and firefighters are expected to be off the fireline by Sunday night ...
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New Mexico’s feral cows will be shot from helicopter, US Forest Service says - CNN
A feral bull is seen along the Gila River in the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico, on July 25, 2020. Robin Silver/Center for Biological Diversity/AP/FILE. CNN — ...