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PecosMike:
Hi to all.  In about another 13 months I will be leaving my very traditional modern urban job and going to West Texas to develop a particular piece of property I own (in Chihuauhan Desert country.) I basically will be embarking on a project to raise Blackbuck Antelope and Fallow deer using a combination of desert forages. It is something I have been planning to do for a long time.  I am taking a year off from traditional work to get it started right.

I have another property of 23 acres in Presidio County Texas USDA Zone 8b, pretty warm and balmy, also Chihuhuan Desert bordering the local mountain range and somewhat nearish (I know thats a very relative word) to Big Bend Park.

 I would like to develop that property as a kind of desert ecology of Acacia and mesquite trees, desert grasses, do some terraforming to build water catchment and containment of rainwater. Id say that desert ecology is my strong suit, and I have no doubt that I can bring in Mule Deer, and local Aoudad to the property and some game birds. There are also some very local mountain lions, bobcats. peccaries and of course coyote in the region. I am a primitive bowhunter just getting interested in the atlatl.  I would not mind at all meeting a few folks who would be interested in visiting, camping, hunting and in general doing your primitive living down there...my mind is open and I would like to share the place but only for the most primitive of the primitive. I suppose I am suggesting a sort of mesolithic group using the property for that sort of experimental living. Please let me know if and how you would like to be invovled..thanks much..Mike 

gstoneberg:
Hello Mike,

That sounds like an interesting project for sure.  Might be too primitive for me, but you never know.  I'm not exactly sure where that is, but I assume far west of where I am in Dallas.  If you get over Dallas way I'd sure be interested to hear what you have planned.  Good luck in your endeavor.

George

Lee Slikkers:
Welcome Mike!

This is really an interesting sounding project.  I love your long-term vision for a piece of land like this...I sure wish West Texas was a whole lot closer to lower Michigan.  Blackbuck, Audads, Whitetails, oh my...what a great mix of game to chase with a stick & string.  Please keep up posted on here with pics or updates as you move forward with this project.

okydoky:
Hello Mike...interesting, 'cause I've been to Alpine and Big Bend...like them both. Applied for job at Big bend, but was beat out on points by someone in Wash. D.C....go figure. Like the primitive idea, unfortunately, need to stay here in Okla for now...have a cancer I need to whip.  I'll keep an eye out for your postings.

JackCrafty:
Wonderful idea!  I would love to visit!!  It would be a great experience to camp out with only stone age materials and technology.  I'm in Midland and it's not too far for me.

I would like to do some videos of what it might have been like to live in a paleo/archaic/woodland camp in West Texas.  My interest would be in camping, hunting, and practicing primitive skills.

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