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"Invasion Biology"

Game Videos Fall 2014

These videos were taken at what we call Sheep Tank, a water point that overlooks one of our largest canyons. Many species share this water, with no visible conflict with each other, or harm to habitat. Big Horn: Elk: Mule Deer: Quail: Others: Biodiversity is good, not bad, for our

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"Invasion Biology"

Desert Restoration: Aoudad, Mule Deer and Summer Rain

These short videos were taken in August 2014 at “Sheep Tank,” which is on the south edge of the Circle Ranch, at an elevation of approximately 5,500 feet. Sheep Tank is in a long, broad valley, which is approximately 1,000 feet higher than our lowest desert, and 1,

Desert Grassland Restoration Crew at Work: June 2014

Desert Grassland Restoration Crew at Work: June 2014

This blog was established to promote the use of sound science in our wildlife and habitat management practices. We devote a lot of time to talking about the role of cattle delivering the animal impact which grasslands require. In fact, most of our animal impact comes from the wild animals

Invasive Species Eradications: "The Rest of the Story"

"Invasion Biology"

Invasive Species Eradications: "The Rest of the Story"

If you have bought into Big Wildlife’s ‘invasive species crisis,’ and believe that eradicating and poisoning of ‘invasive’ species of plants and wild animals are based on science, or benefit ecosystems including wildlife and habitat, you need to hear “The Rest of the Story.” David I. Theodoropoulos directs the

Circle Ranch Game Cameras: May 2014

"Invasion Biology"

Circle Ranch Game Cameras: May 2014

“Competition” or Cooperation? Here are links to some great pictures of many species sharing water and habitat at the Circle Ranch. Several of the species photographed such as the aoudad and bighorn pictured above, are said by game ‘managers’ to be incompatible. ‘Exotics’, these ‘experts’ say, harm bighorn, deer, pronghorn,

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Circle Ranch Game Cameras: March 15, 2014

Here are links to some great pictures of many species sharing water and habitat at the Circle Ranch. Several, like aoudad and bighorn, are thought to be hostile to each other, and incompatible: That belief is wrong, as these photos show. Diablo Peak: Sheep Tank: Tres Papalotes: Bezos Fenceline: Oncie

Aoudad, The Bogus Boogeyman

"Invasion Biology"

Aoudad, The Bogus Boogeyman

Eradication Science or Eradication Snake Oil? This piece asks common sense questions about the increasing use of wild animal eradication as a primary conservation tool, and about the foundations on which these practices rest: Why have eradications become so prevalent? Do eradications advance conservation? Are eradications based on science or

Trans-Pecos Mule Deer Population Declines 40 Percent - Mule Deer Hunting Season is Lengthened

Trans-Pecos Mule Deer Population Declines 40 Percent - Mule Deer Hunting Season is Lengthened

Far-West Texas: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has extended the mule deer season through the last Sunday in January for those properties operating under Managed Land Deer Permits (MLDP). West Texas mule deer population trends remain alarming. According to the report posted above, the TPWD count “raw data” of

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Savory Institute: Holistic Management Research Portfolio

Allan Savory at Circle Ranch, June 2009 Almost every American wildlife agency, conservation organization, university, wildlife and range scientist is pledged to the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The Model lists its Core Principal #6 as: “6. Science Is the Proper Tool to Discharge Wildlife Policy In his classic

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New Mule Deer Research in the Chihuahuan Desert

This post contains a recently-published report on mule deer research in the Chihuahuan Desert. It was conducted by the Borderland Research Institute for Natural Resource Management (BRI). BRI is part of Sul Ross State University in Alpine. West Texas needs BRI, specifically dedicated to our regional wildlife and habitat for

Circle Ranch - Cows and Desert Mule Deer

Chronic Wasting Disease

Cows and Desert Mule Deer

This is the third in a series about how cattle can benefit wildlife and habitat. Our previous two articles addressed quail and pronghorn. Desert mule deer are native to several Western states, and are in decline in New Mexico and West Texas. Notwithstanding vast accumulated knowledge about them, no expert

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Mountain Lion in Red Mountain Pasture, June 20, 2010

“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something

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Ruben Cantu on Predator Control

Ruben is the West Texas TPWD Regional Director . He offered his personal opinion on predator control

Misty Sumner on Predator Management For Mule Deer

Misty Sumner on Predator Management For Mule Deer

Here I am with Misty Sumner, our TPWD field biologist. She gave us these thoughts on predator management.

Richard Gill on Predator Control

Richard Gill on Predator Control

Richard Gill on Predator Control

Our youngest son Richard is in the real estate business in San Antonio. He is a Circle owner.

Chris Gill on Predator Removals

Chris Gill on Predator Removals

Dear Family and Friends, as Savory says, we almost always achieve our short-term goals but often at terrible unintended long-term cost.

Steve Nelle is a wildlife biologist with the NRCS

Steve Nelle on Predator Removals

Steve Nelle is a wildlife biologist with the NRCS. He is one of the most respected range and wildlife scientists in West Texas.

Chris Gill to Authors And Sponsors of Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer

Chris Gill's Response to the Mule Deer Working Group

Chris Gill to Authors And Sponsors of Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer

In September 2009, I was in Department headquarters in Austin, when I ran into one of the Authors of Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer.

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Authors of Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer

Below is a list of collaborators on policy and research document regarding Habitat Guidelines for Mule Deer

Antlepe herd in West Texas

Don Frantzen on Predator Removals

Don Frantzen is a highly-experienced manager of deer herds. We have been friends for twenty-five years.