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The Bell Ranch is a historic ranch in Tucumcari, New Mexico, United States of America. Owned by John Malone since 2010, it is one of the largest privately owned ranches in the United States. [ 2] As of 2021, Malone is the second largest land owner in the country with 2.2 million acres. [ 3] The ranch became a national landmark in 1974.
Gila Wilderness was designated the world's first wilderness area on June 3, 1924. [ 1] Along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, the 558,014 acre (225,820 ha) (872 sq. mi.) wilderness is part of New Mexico's Gila National Forest. The wilderness is approximately 27 miles (43 km) from north to south and 39 miles (63 km) east ...
The original Camp Tom Wooten operated as a Boy Scout summer camp from 1934 until its sale in 1983. The new location operates as a camp for Cub Scouts. [78] Camp Tonkawa: Texas Trails Council: Taylor County, TX: Active: Camp Wisdom: Circle Ten Council: Dallas, TX: Active: Camp Zach White: Yucca Council: Sold: Chisholm Trail High Adventure Base ...
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile (22.0 km) wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. [ 1] Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps and volcanic domes dot the caldera floor landscape. [ 4]
Land grants by the Spanish and Mexicans between 1692 and 1846 numbered 291 in New Mexico, four partly in New Mexico and partly in Colorado, and three in Colorado. The land area of grants totaled tens of thousands of square miles. "The two major types of land grants were private grants made to individuals, and communal grants made to groups of ...
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]
Waterfowl hunting is the practice of hunting aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and other waterfowls or shorebirds for food and sport.. Many types of ducks and geese share the same habitat, have overlapping or identical hunting seasons, and are hunted using the same methods.
The following year, Mexican troops confiscated all coastal lands from the Kumeyaay in 1822, granting much of the land to Mexican settlers, who became known as Californios, [19] to develop the land for agriculture, beginning the California rancho era. Kumeyaay fell victim to smallpox and malaria epidemics in 1827 and 1832, reducing their population.