Leev No Trase Now, Yuh He'ar!

There's a stretch of BLM land on the east side of the Rio Grande that runs north and south alongside Socorro. It's called the Quebradas National Backcountry Byway

and there're a few spots where a nimble vehicle can camp. Mostly creosote, it's so over-grazed it'll evolve before it'll recover.

On the morning of 9, November, 2019, I took these photos to document the management of our public lands. And THIS...a NATIONAL Backcountry BYway!


Watch yer step!

Glazed (with frost) Cow Shit in Morning

Fire Ring with Mountains

Old Pipe with Tabasco Bottle

The bottle is upended in the smaller piece of pipe.

"Grazing" livestock out here is cruel & inhumane; there's nothing to eat.

At the north end cattle guard they added this sign. 

Somebody chewed the upper left corner; the lower right has the agglomeration of small holes from a shotgun.

I have to laugh. The area is almost exclusively Hispanic. The syntax is unique and you can almost hear the final word they left off...Pendejo!