Jim Koweek

I saw a disturbing site the other morning on a walk. It was a four-foot-tall Alligator Juniper. From a distance, it looked almost normal. I say “almost” because when I walked up and touched it, all the leaves (needles?) crumbled in my hand. It was dried out and dead. This was the first, but certainly […]

Why I Am (Trying to be)  Happy About The Drought  Feels like June 87th out there or is it the June 93rd? I know it is hard to keep track. What I do know if that it is HOT and DRY. Very DRY. To my recollection this is the driest so-called summer rainy season in […]

Livestock animals eat a lot. In the grasslands around the Sonoita area the conversion is about 42 acres of pasture needed for a cow per year and 75–120 acres per horse. Because of their teeth and digestive system, horses are much tougher on range land than are cattle. Supplemental feeding on smaller acreage is a […]