A recent roundup and ongoing fence repairs take aim at the problem of stray cattle along the San Pedro River.
Henry Brean Several dozen stray cattle have been removed from the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, and federal officials say fence repairs are now underway to keep more livestock out of sensitive parts of the river preserve 80 miles southeast of Tucson.
Meanwhile, work is progressing on repairs to the boundary fence surrounding the almost-57,000-acre conservation area. Ranchers in the area are also repairing their own fences in and around the conservation area with BLM assistance. Over the past year, Lowery said, the bureau’s Tucson Field Office has provided 12 miles of fence material to three of the four ranchers who hold grazing allotments within the conservation area.
Robin Silver, co-founder of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, said his group has lodged roughly 135 complaints to the BLM about trespassing cattle in the past three years alone. More than 80 of those complaints have come since the bureau agreed in August to step up its response to the problem as part of a legal settlement with the center.
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