SLV Dweller

Fri, July 2, 2010

George Whitten, a third-generation rancher in the northern San Luis Valley, likes to read ecology books. He agrees that holistic, ecology, environment, ranching, and sustainable are all words that stick together to describe a turning point, a new direction in holistic resource management. George discovered this some 20 years ago and has been implementing it slowly ever since.

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Cow Mutilations Investigated

Mon, May 24, 2010

Authorities in Colorado's San Luis Valley are trying to solve a series of bizarre, gruesome slaying: cows, mutilated, carved up, left to die in the fields. Police are stumped. But rancher Mike Duran, who lost two of his cows to mutilation last December, has a theory that is literally out of this world. He says it was aliens.

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L.A. Times on SLV Cattle Mutilation

Tue, December 15, 2009

Manuel A. Sanchez has ruled out every logical explanation for the fate that has befallen the calves on his ranch in southern Colorado. Over the past month, he's found four calves dead in a way that he cannot reconcile with anything in his 50 years of raising cattle: eyes and ears missing, tongues and genitals excised in what appeared to be a series of fine cuts.

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Cattle Mutilation

Wed, December 2, 2009

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Calf Mutilations Raise Questions

Thu, November 26, 2009

A string of calf mutilations earlier this month have left a local rancher and law enforcement scratching their heads. Rancher Manuel Sanchez has had four calves mutilated over a three-week span in a pasture he leases near Los Vallejos, just southeast of here, with the most recent victim coming on Nov. 16.

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Alien Cattle Mutalation

Fri, August 14, 2009

A "mutilation" of a cow in San Luis Valley caused by "the extra terrestrial". WARNING: Graphic

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Can Cows Save the West

Wed, January 21, 2009

“We’ve been trying to make the West into Europe since our ancestors came here,” says George Whitten, a rancher in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. He has been practicing holistic management, with good results, since the mid-1980s. Now, “I think we have to become truly westerners to live within its limits and its bounty,” he says. By grazing cows in a way that mimics the pattern of wild herbivores, advocates say, rangeland improves.

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Crowther Dairy Goes Solar

Tue, November 25, 2008

Crowther Dairy, based in Alamosa, Colorado, has just completed a 9.9kW solar electric system installation. Astralux Power Systems provided design, engineering, and installation services for this solar project.

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SLV Dairies Hurting

Mon, July 7, 2008

Dairies being milked in the San Luis Valley -- rising feed prices are hurting the small local dairies.