Water Crisis in the West: Thinking Like a Watershed
moderated by Jack Loeffler

Panel III Rural Perspectives (April 24, 2014) Panelists will present perspectives of traditional ranchers and the role of Holistic Range Management in overcoming problems of over-grazing wrought by ranchers transplanted to the arid Southwest from the verdant East of earlier generations. They will introduce the growing likelihood of scarcity in both surface- and ground-water in New Mexico and the American Southwest. This scarcity is already occurring due to global warming, climate instability, drought, and over-extraction. They will also address restoration ecology as a culture of practice shared by Native American, Hispano and Anglo rural residents of New Mexico and beyond. Panelists include: rancher Sid Goodloe from Carrizozo; farmer and author Stanley Crawford from Dixon; and Steve Harris, Director of Río Grande Restoration.