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PecosMike:
Thanks for the encouragement George, Im in the NorthEast right now but when the time comes I will be taking a long road trip South down the Eastern Seaboard through FL and Louisiana and then through East Texas. My intended home is in the Eastern most tip of Reeves County, about a stone's throw from the Pecos river (hence "Pecos Mike'. It is also about 1 hour 15 minutes WSW of Odessa Midland.   I would be happy to drop in you, I was going to pick up some guinea fowl and some other necessary odds and ends in  East Texas.  We should stay in touch. Mike

PecosMike:
Lee thats what airplanes are for!  When you get enough of those Michigan Whitetails come down to West Texas.  Just let me get in a couple dozen acres of tasty forages to drive the local hooved stock wild....... Mike

Lee Slikkers:
Thanks Mike!  I wish they managed the local WT population better, seems everyone shoots anything with a nub on its head now.  Those Blacktail Bucks and Aoudad are what have me envious!  I know those Aoudad are tough to get close to...bet they will be a real challenge with a with a bow.  Love the concept of your project, very, very cool.

PecosMike:
Oky no hurry, I wont be working seriously on it for another year..I would be pleased to have you come out there...I would also appreciate any wisdom you have relating to deer and their foraging habits in Oklahoma, also if you run accross any seeds of deer-favorite forbs or browse species in OK gosh please send them my way, Id even pay the shipping, I am going for a real diversity of edible species on my properties---right now I just have a few Mesquites and a few dozen creosote bushes and a few rattlers..! I am going to be trying to reconstruct a sort of tree savana in Reeves County, with Sweet Acacia, Roemer Acacia, Chisos Red Oak, Honeylocust and Mesquites as the tree canopy, followed lots of locally derived Skunkbush sumac and related sumacs, followed by shrubby four wing saltbush, Forage Kochia and a native of North Africa (toothache tree) which apparrently camels and goats crave.  My grass will be a mixture of hardy desert friiendly species, at least two of which could survive on 8 inches of rainfall a year (a good precaution).  Most everything will be planted in swales to catch and divert what little rainfall there is out there. It's a labor of love, so I am really going to take care with the details of it all.  Get well soon---(and search "Macrobiotics" which I know a bit about, it might help you out a little.----Adios--Mike

PecosMike:
Jack if you're in Midland you have no excuse--you must come out!  I like your idea about the video series and would like to hear more about it when you get the time.

What fascinates me about West Texas is the gradual drying of the region over the last 3000 to 5000 years and the exodus of the larger bison and elk to the grassier climates of the North.  And the rumors of West Texas Cheetah running down the local Pronghorns at the close of the Pleistocene..I would love to time travel out there to see that...

Even at the time of the Civil War you may know that 7 foot grass grew around the Ft. Stockton region.  My great hope is that the 8 large counties of far West Texas will graduallly move more toward eco tourism and hunting and away from Cattle, which is much too hard and water-intensive an activity for the region.  You can stock about 14 Blackbuck Antelope or 5 Aoudad or Fallow Deer for every steer..and they'd survive droughts that would kill cattle....their manner of browsing would probably actually improve the ecosystem and create a more diverse flora out there...

Anyway--yes do stay in touch..as you can see, these are my interests as well......Mike

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