Steve Nelle is a wildlife biologist with the NRCS. He is one of the most respected range and wildlife scientists in West Texas. Here are his thoughts:
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Chris Gill to Authors And Sponsors of Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer
Concerning ‘Corrections’ Made in Response to My Letters. In September 2009, I was in Department headquarters in Austin, when I ran into one of the Authors of Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer. I asked him […]
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Below is a list of collaborators on policy and research document regarding Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer:
Read moreKeyline Treatment of Headcuts
A central concept of Keyline-pattern subsoiling is plowing downwards in valley-forms and upwards on ridge-forms. This discussion between Chris Gill and Ken Yeomans explains why.
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Doing What Works: Range Magazine
Here is the summary of two years of correspondence with the Mule Deer Working Group, my futile attempt to get them to change the sloppy-science-based range advice which so harms desert habitats and wildlife. What […]
Read moreDon Frantzen on Predator Removals
Don Frantzen is a highly-experienced manager of deer herds. We have been friends for twenty-five years. He offered these thoughts on predator removals:
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This document was amended in 2009. It is dated 2006, but contains, for example, references to the Briske, et al. paper published in 2008. Its conclusions are identical to the unamended version.
Read moreAoudad at Two Section, August 2009.
This is an Aoudad, or Barbary Sheep. 900 of these animals have been shot at Big Bend Park, from helicopters, by members of Texas Parks and Wildlife, some of whom are included in the ‘Contact’ […]
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Coyote at Two Section
Read moreCougar at Two Section, July 2009
The policy to treat these as vermin is a huge mistake.
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