Hey guys, you might want to read this one also….even if you live in Coal Fire, Alabama you will enjoy this issue. Front page, Surviving the Wild about elk calves in danger from the moment of birth, how its mom leaves it in tall grass for up to four hours with bears, coyotes and cougars looking for a meal all the while. Rangers try and track them down to put a transmitter on them. ….Desert bighorn arrive from Mexico to mix with our present herds as apparently we need new genes in the herd. These Mexican Bighorn are all bulls……Mr. Dennis Chavez had applied for a bighorn permit for the last 51 years and for 50 of those years he did not get his name drawn for the hunts. 51st time was charm and he got a ram that scored 174 on Boone and Crockett standards. Using a .270 Weatherby magnum he set his rangefinder on 339 yards and squeezed off a shot..He missed. The ram ran back up the hill, stopped and turned broadside to him. Big mistake…Mr. Chavez did not miss this time. But the big ram fell and began sliding down a shale slope that could have ended up down in a 500 – 600 foot canyon, but some brush and shrubs stopped it. Nice article and it has a picture of Mr. Chavez and the big old Bighorn shown…..Another article “Set your sights on Walleye Fishing” shows a picture of of Leah Pelletier with her 31 inch, 12 pound walleye she caught at Santa Rosa Lake while jigging at a depth of 50 feet.  Good article here also. Well, I could go on and on with the awesome articles in this issue but why don’t you go to www.wildlife.state.nm.us and read for yourself. Or better yet, load up your gear and camera and come on out to New Mexico. We have a little bit of everything for your hiking, hunting and fishing pleasure and miles and miles of space to do it in….Remember FIRE DANGERS ARE HIGH….CAREFUL WITH MATCHES AND FIRES….