Greenpeace

 When we look at what we have lost through these 8 years of Totalitarian American Governments, if not totally insane Republican RULE with Republican State Representative Don Tripp, the slaver, the "sweat-shop" owner, the thief of public funds, social security funds, and Human Resources, we also begin to sweat with fear that this insane man could live in a country or state where he can RUN FOR ELECTION TO A PUBLIC OFFICE WITH SOME POWER, WHO can take the land, water, air, pollute us with pesticides, kill the fish, the eco-communities, the eco-systems in total ignorance and oblivion, then we truly have lost so much of what we did love, but mostly we have been caused to understand what evil is and can d, for we are touching it! We see what  greedy, "less-than-intelligent" humans can do to our planet, to our people, to our food. But, knowing this, how must we stop them. Don't vote for them certainly. Yet, perhaps it is time for an upgrade to a failed and obsolete type of government? Don Tripp inserts himself, hides himself and poisons all that he touches. So, we are to go to what we have lost, we have lost good water in our Rio Grande, we have lost so many species of wildlife, (extinct) time will tell)? We have surely lost our scientists, our ecologists, our writers, our philosophers, our senses. Not all of us, but so many that we have had to say goodbye to what was the Department of Geology at New Mexico Tech, where it has turnd to eco-terrorism,  tossing the real paleontologist out to make room for the oil man, who claims to be a paleotologist, but is really only a homosexual small man with desires just to be "somebody." The only paleontology he has seen is fossil fuel. So L. Greer Price you can be proud, you have helped to turn our state, our rivers and streams into Disneylands. And, will you be Minnie Mouse? Your gay mate, Ms. Stebbins placed in the BLM will sit by, doing what she alway does, nothing... and think yourselves as archaeologists, but are only a pot-sherd washers. We have lost what was a science department to silly, illiterate fools. Sad is this. But, just another thing that is lost. They have not yet learned that eco-tourism turns so quickly into eco-terrorism, human excrement and trampled wildernesses. But, perhaps all of the unread books on Mr. Price's shelves will do what he could not do...go to a descent library for the younger readers of this world. I only wish you had some science and environmental books to give. There are others we have gained, while we lost the real book-makers, the real photographers, the real writers and the real editors... We have lost the science that might get us out of our dash of extincition. These people know not that there are many Camino Real's, that my great, great,great uncle wrote a letter to my family when he fought in the Battle of Valverde. These people do not know that my Aunt Mary cooked in Magdalena for the wild horse ranglers who used the rock buildings and corrals along Nogal Canyon, that my partners grandmother took the walkof death to Ft Sill and back, loosing her mother to cold, that my partner's great, great uncle was Geronimo. No one even knows to ask us. And, we don't care to tell them. And to the Bosque del Apache and its Disneyland (supported by New Mexico Tech, Don Tripp and BASF, the chemical company), who sprayed our valley killing so many of us.  We are missing John Taylor, finally as he was a slow minde, foolish man with Texas relatives. Why had no one told him that being a Duck specialiss does not mean that one can research and study the eco-systems of marshes and wetlands, with their, high, high biomass.  

But, the people of this place have so little to belong to... that they image things, they biuld imagery places to make a past for themselves. They become members of Friends of the Bosque del Apache, build a Festival of the Cranes for making money and to obtain some history for themsleves. Most come from Texas, Illinois, Kansas, even California, but they are not New Mexico Natives, they are only "carpet baggers" back to the Lee's the Bursums, the Tripps, the Monettes, Herkenhoffs. So for the moment we have lost our valley and our wildlife refuges to those who have nothing, those that cannot even have two twin towers bombed by their own govenment to lean upon for some history, a lineage. They come here in desparation and desire to be an archaeologist and there are no archaeologist of quality left in the State these days. They come here to be somebody, only to find that there is no place for them except as pseudo-scientists at Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge, Herkenhoff's Indian Hill (that does not belong to him). 

No matter who they are, they have become nothing behind those large telescopes and cameras lined up like Howitzer's awiting Napoleon Bonaparte all aiming at the last Sand Hill Crane. For it is now apparent, this will be one of the last Festivals of the Cranes if they continue to burn Salt Cedar and spray it with the death of imazapyr. They will build bronze monuments (still as death) to their "imagined Hero," John Taylor. They need someone to worship. So two dead cranes in bronze to honor a sad dead man, who took the wrong path. And where are his kidneys and Ms. Nyleen Troxel-Stowe. And, as one rather ignorant female told me: "We live down here and we get bored, so we have to adopt horses, buy small pieces of land, be Friends of the Bosque just not to get bored. How sad for you lady, how sad for you all. 

But, what have I lost? I can not longer go to the Bosque del Apache as it is not a wildlife refuge with thousands of birders polluting the land with their feet, filling up badly perfumed hotel rooms owned by the mayor of Socorro, Ravi Bhasker. I have lost that drive in the golden autumn leaves with a few other people around the place to see the whooping cranes and snow geese come in to sleep. But, mostly, I have lost that lone ring-necked pheasant who hid in the snow covered grasses as I was in awe of him. I have lost the lone coyote slinking in to attempt to get a meal in summer waters. I have lost some archaeological sites. But, I have mainly lost a high biomass marsh environment to eco-terrorism.