Conservation News updated - Again!

[DesertRose]

Scott lit a fire for us:campfire: , reminding us that we needed more current info on the News page.

I posted some more on what's up in backcountry Mexico conservation.

http://www.expeditionportal.com/conservation.php

Please send us new news issues to cover - that have some conservation value. We'd like to keep the Conservation News area from becoming just a report area for upcoming land-use planning meetings, which are covered extensively in other forums.

We'd like to keep abreast of important conservation topics that affect backcountry exploration. Areas that are being lost to urban expansion, mines, or even global warming. How is that going to affect future expeditions to places like the Arctic in winter - for two years in a row now pack ice has not formed in the Arctic. People in Fairbanks are having AC installed. Will people like Scott even be able to drive to Tuktoyaktuk next year?

Keep ideas coming!

Roseann

 

[Ursidae69]

I enjoyed reading that update, the letter from Sergio was especially interesting. :victory:

 

[DesertRose]

Do you know Serge, Chuck? He's down in Janos area fairly frequently, so you might run into him if you're ever down Gray Ranch/parts east in NM.

Northern Chihuahua/Sonora is one of the last great areas of wildlife spectacles left in this hemisphere - I'm sure you know there is still a herd of bison down there that is genetically related to the original plains buffalos - a real SW remnant herd. Wow. And the wildlife in the Janos region south to the Quatro Cienegas is said to rival East Africa's plains - we need to plan an expedition! (NOT during drug harvesting time, like I stupidly did one time . . . "Gee, why are all those heavily laden vegetable trucks driving north with three or four black SUVs with armed-guard escorts - and why do they keep giving us evil looks?":smileeek: )

 

[Ursidae69]

Do you know Serge, Chuck? He's down in Janos area fairly frequently, so you might run into him if you're ever down Gray Ranch/parts east in NM.

Northern Chihuahua/Sonora is one of the last great areas of wildlife spectacles left in this hemisphere - I'm sure you know there is still a herd of bison down there that is genetically related to the original plains buffalos - a real SW remnant herd. Wow. And the wildlife in the Janos region south to the Quatro Cienegas is said to rival East Africa's plains - we need to plan an expedition! (NOT during drug harvesting time, like I stupidly did one time . . . "Gee, why are all those heavily laden vegetable trucks driving north with three or four black SUVs with armed-guard escorts - and why do they keep giving us evil looks?":smileeek: )

I have not met him, but have read some off his work on jaguars. Did he do work with Dave Brown at Arizona State? My old friend Dave had a grad student working on jaguars when I was there in the late 90s, but never met the guy. Anyway... You hear about the jaguar sighting in Hidalgo County recently? Every year when I work on the projects down south I hope to see one! An expedition there would be great, but early spring, not late fall like you said. The drugs runners are scary to run into. The guys I ran into last September were hauling a lot of drugs and through some of the toughest country in the southwest too... Scary. Not what you expect to see in the middle of nowhere.

 

[The BN Guy]

Good article. Made my conference period much more relaxing - otherwise I'd be grading papers.

I didn't realize there were ANY movements in Mexico for conservation. I learned quite a bit.

 

[Scott Brady]

bravo!