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[quote="Sandman"]Most of all enjoy your new home. There is a reason why you are there. Something has drawn you to this particular location. There is some kind of connection or you wouldn't have bought the place.[quote] I agree, because it's the most insane, impractical, and unnecessary maj...

ElPaso2008: Your topic is fine right here, since it is the forum for Land Uses. By the way, please don't kill the Mountain Lions it is their home also. Thanks much, Iggy. As for the lions, don't worry. As indicated above, it would have to be an extreme situation before I would throw a rock at anyth...

The lions in NM and AZ are still shy of humans. They still have plenty of habitat and so have not had to share land with us, thus getting accustomed to our presence. And we have lots of people that shoot at them...That's illegal in Ca. I'm of a very conflicted mind regarding the lions: http://www.w...

Sweet property. Good luck on building. Out here in Kalifornia you woul dbe hard pressed to be able to build on property like that. To many rules and regs. The good ole rattle snake (most likely you will have western diamonback), will find any hole they can get into. If you can, maybe brick up under...

Yep...Wrong forum. Awesome property though....We're pernt near neighbors! The best way to keep snakes out from your property is to build a low wall with a slight lip facing outward on top. Use a cattle guard under the gate....Won't keep all of them out, but most will stay on the other side of the w...

Yep...Wrong forum. Awesome property though....We're pernt near neighbors! The best way to keep snakes out from your property is to build a low wall with a slight lip facing outward on top. Use a cattle guard under the gate....Won't keep all of them out, but most will stay on the other side of the w...

I do have this one low quality image of the northen end, taken at the wrong time of day. If you look at the dip in the background mountain, the property line runs from the tip on the left side of the dip down towards where I'm standing, then to the left to the top of the mountains you cannot see, an...

If this post is in the wrong place, feel free to move it, or just let me know if the post is not "on topic". But I hoped it might be appropriate to ask for any advice anyone might have about actually living remotely in the desert. Today I purchased the west side of a canyon in the Hueco Mo...

I've also seen the golden/straw/yellow C. m. m. (molossus molossus) around Sedona, upper Sycamore Canyon , Upper Oak Creek, and on the rim near Williams, AZ. I would think they are tied to the live-oak, madrean eco-system, like the Coues Deer. They represent the northern extent of an essentially Me...

That's a Northern Black Tailed Rattlesnake...Crotalus molossus. They look silverish/gray in the deserts, golden in the mountains or sometimes greenish like in my neck of the woods. This specimen is quite faded towards the back end, with a somewhat nontypical pattern across the front half. Terry, I ...