Economic, social, and cultural aspects of livestock ranching on the Espa&amp;ntilde;ola and Canjilon Ranger Districts of the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests: a pilot study

Raish, Carol; McSweeney, Alice M.

doi:10.2737/rmrs-gtr-113

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“…While information is still too scarce to fully evaluate the full extent of the tradeoffs, the elimination of fire, introduction of house pets, livestock pets, and exotic landscaping are just a few to consider. The fate of private lands will often closely be coupled to use of public lands, since many ranchers economically depend on grazing of public lands for their existence (Raish and McSweeney 2003). The review above clearly shows weaknesses in even basic understanding of the response of many major plant community types to grazing.…”

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Responses of plant communities to grazing in the southwestern United States

Milchunas¹

2006

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Responses of plant communities to grazing in the southwestern United States

Milchunas¹

2006

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“…By the time homestead entries on the Las Vegas Land Grant flooded the Santa Fe land office in the early 1880s, 5.2 million sheep grazed New Mexico's grasslands, three times the number prior to the arrival of the railroad. 75 When Las Gorras Blancas were at their peak, more than 1.3 million cattle turned New Mexico's rangelands into a factory of meat production. 76 The increase in sheep and cattle numbers in New Mexico reflected a transition from subsistence to capitalist meat production that placed enormous pressure on what had previously been a pastoral production economy.…”

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“Retribution Will Be Their Reward”: New Mexico's Las Gorras Blancas and the Fight for the Las Vegas Land Grant Commons

Correia¹

2010

Radical History Review

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This essay traces the struggle for the commons on New Mexico's Las Vegas Land Grant, a community property claim in New Mexico. Following the U.S.–Mexican War, waves of enclosures undermined communal property relations throughout the region. The Las Vegas grant was particularly appealing to land speculators and commercial cattle operators for its vast grasslands, timber, and rail connections. In the late 1880s a clandestine movement, known as Las Gorras Blancas, responded to the property enclosures and new wage labor relations on the grant with night-riding tactics that included cutting the barbed wire fences that enclosed common property and destroying the rail infrastructure that served the new class of speculators and commercial cattle operators. This essay examines the specific patterns of land speculation in Las Vegas amid the wider capitalist transformation of New Mexico as a means to understand the development and political economy of the Las Gorras Blancas protest.

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“…Gomez, personal communication, 2012). Although this phenomenon varies locally (Raish and McSweeney, 2003;Cox, 2010;S. Lopez, unpublished data), these trends could point to the weakening of an activity that has historically provided a natural Introduction link between valleys and uplands and has contributed to the cohesion of acequia communities.…”

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Hydrological, ecological, land use, economic, and sociocultural evidence for resilience of traditional irrigation communities in New Mexico, USA

Fernald¹,

Guldan²,

Boykin³

et al. 2014

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Abstract. Southwestern US irrigated landscapes are facing upheaval due to climate change-induced water scarcity and economic change-induced land use conversion. Clues to community longevity are found in the traditionally irrigated valleys of northern New Mexico. Human systems have interacted with hydrologic processes over the last 400 yr in river fed irrigated valleys to create linked systems. In this study, we asked if concurrent data from multiple disciplines show that human adapted hydrologic and socioeconomic systems have created conditions for resilience. We identify and describe several areas of resilience: hydrological, ecological, land use, economic, and sociocultural. We found that there are multiple hydrologic benefits of the water seepage from the traditional irrigation systems; it recharges groundwater that recharges rivers, supports threatened biodiversity by maintaining riparian vegetation, and ameliorates impacts of climate change by prolonging streamflow hydrographs. In terms of land use and economics, place-based adaptability manifests itself in transformations of irrigation infrastructure and specific animal and crop systems; as grazing has diminished over time on public land watersheds, it has increased on irrigated valley pastures while outside income allows irrigators to retain their land. Sociocultural evidence shows that traditional local knowledge about the hydrosocial cycle of acequia operations is a key factor in acequia resilience. When irrigators are confronted with unexpected disturbances or changing climate that affect water supply, they adapt specific practices while maintaining community cohesion. Our ongoing work will quantify the multiple disciplinary components of these systems, translate them into a common language of causal loop diagrams, and model future scenarios to identify thresholds and tipping points of sustainability. Early indications are that these systems are not immune to upheaval, but have astonishing resilience.

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Economic, social, and cultural aspects of livestock ranching on the Española and Canjilon Ranger Districts of the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests: a pilot study

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Responses of plant communities to grazing in the southwestern United States

Responses of plant communities to grazing in the southwestern United States

“Retribution Will Be Their Reward”: New Mexico's Las Gorras Blancas and the Fight for the Las Vegas Land Grant Commons

Hydrological, ecological, land use, economic, and sociocultural evidence for resilience of traditional irrigation communities in New Mexico, USA

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