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Look at the topic "good coues habitat?" That picture is taken in the northern part of 36A on the Magee Ranch. I also have pics of other areas in northen 36A that are worse than those pics. Unit 36b&a&c are taking the brunt of the illegal alien traffic right now. I scouted out an area by copper glance mine in the NW part of the unit the other day and found evidence of 100-200 illegals a day coming thru the area. Also talked to the owners of the Magee ranch and they are being overwhelmed by drug runners and illegals. It used to be you didn't have to worry about the illegals, and only had to worry about drug runners. That has changed. The illegal allien smuggling business is now making more money than the drug business. At $1500 to $3000 per illegal smuggled, you can see that this is big business. Many of the coyotees who are smuggling the illegals are now armed with both guns and night vision optics. They are getting more desperate all the time, as border patrol and other groups are shutting down existing smuggling routes. I constantly hear of hunting camps having stuff stolen, trucks being broken into or stolen. You really need to watch your back. The Nogales ranger district in the Coranado National Forest advises against camping, hunting or hiking on forest land, due to the presence of so many drug and people smugglers. They have actually put up signs now, that read, "Caution, Illegal people smuggling and Drug smuggling activities may be encountered in this area". If you want to hear a story about how my self and my hunting client were chased on a deer hunt by drug smugglers, send me an e-mail. I dont guide any more down by the border. Too much liability.... But with all of this said, there are still some good hunting oppurtunities down south. You just need to be aware of the problem and come prepared. This is one reason the G&F commision issued a enforcement directive, to allow archers to carry firearms when huntin in southern AZ now. Lance Altherr AZ Hunters Who Care azhunterswhocare@hotmail.com

The Lake Pleasant cleanup was last weekend. We picked up over 57,000 pounds of trash in just 4 hours, and didn't finish. This area is down south of Tucson. I am working on getting access into this area to clean it up. Stay tuned. The sad thing is, that I know of several areas that have worse trash than this one. All of opur hunting areas are being trashed by the illegals. Lance

How would you like to find this while hunting???

Thanks to all the hunters who showed up. We cleaned up 57,000 pounds of trash and had almost 100 volunteers from all differnt groups. Got some good news coverage in Phoenix. Hunters in Phoenix need to get in gear, because this problem is now in your backyard....

Guys and Gals, It is time for hunters to step up and help out. Arizona Hunters Who Care is sponsoring 2 cleanups in the month of May. The first will be for an area in the Ironwood National Monument west of Tucson, on May 6th. The second one will be for an area west of Lake Pleasant that is 4 acres of illegal alien trash. This one will be on May 20th. Guys are hunting areas are being destroyed, by all of the trash left behind by illegals. If you are interested in helping out to cleanup our wildlife habitat, e-mail me at azhunterswhocare@hotmail.com Look at the pictures attached. The one with a volunteer in it cleaning up trash is from down in the Ironwood forest, and the other is part of the Lake Pleasant layup spot. If your NOT outraged, your NOT paying attention..... Lance

May 11, 2006, 6:10 a.m. In Our Backyard If only McCain and Kennedy lived on ranches in southern Arizona. By Leo W. Banks I know how to kill the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill and the illusions that inspire it. We need every citizen to spend a day at John and Pat King's Anvil Ranch in southern Arizona. The experience would create an overnight revolution in America's view of this domestic crisis. The Kings live every day with barking dogs, vandalism, guns at their bedside, trash on their land, and most tragically, human remains. The bodies of seven illegals were found on the 50,000-acre Anvil last year. ?Can you imagine dying of heat prostration out there?? says Pat King, a 62-year-old former nurse. ?It has got to be the most awful thing. I wish the two countries would get together and stop this. In this whole 50-mile area, there is no law. It's a frontier.? I visited the Anvil a week ago Sunday. The night before, the Minutemen had wrapped up a month-long watch at the ranch, and the nationwide demonstrations to demand rights for illegal immigrants would begin the next morning. I've visited many Arizona ranches, and it always surprises me how quickly I can travel from Tucson to a combat zone. It takes 50 minutes to reach Anvil's headquarters in heavily-crossed Altar Valley, located to the southwest of the city. Even with that proximity, most people in Tucson?to say nothing of Maine or Washington, D.C.?live in blissful ignorance of the worsening situation here. When Pat discusses the problem with friends, they say, ?Don't you think you're exaggerating?? No one would ask that if they saw the 40 bicycles stacked against one of the Anvil's out-buildings. They're the favored means of transportation for drug smugglers, who pack their cargo onto saddlebags and pedal across our border, then abandon the bikes. As for vandalism, Pat describes what they experience today as ?wanton,??water troughs filled with garbage, pipes cut, valves hammered to pieces. She jokes that they're thinking of putting a tetherball by the troughs to occupy the illegals so they aren't so destructive. ?You have to understand, we're under siege here,? she says. ?Every day my son and husband check water and fences and redo the damage they've done. Not to get on with our work, but to undo the damage. Every. Day.? Micaela McGibbon, Pat's daughter, took me on a ranch tour, and in one mile we crossed 30 smuggling trails. In a wash, we inspected sophisticated brush huts in which illegals rest during trips north. But this nightmare comes right to the Kings' doorstep. Imagine living under permanent stakeout. The Kings do. They removed mesquite trees from around their house because illegals would hide underneath them and wait for the house to empty. For nine years, the family has been unable to leave home unless someone stays to guard against burglars. They celebrate Christmas in shifts. On Christmas Eve, Pat's son and daughter-in-law go to Tucson to visit family, and when they return John and Pat go on Christmas morning. Micaela can no longer do chores unless accompanied by her father or a brother, and taking her 4-year-old daughter out on horseback is forbidden. ?We can't go anywhere without an escort,? Micaela says. The Kings have complained to politicians and law enforcement for years. ?They talk this rule of law stuff, but it doesn't mean a thing,? Pat says. ?When you realize nothing's going to happen, you have to do self-protection.? During their April watch, Minutemen spotted 1,501 illegals on the Anvil, and of these the Border Patrol arrested 500. But it turned into a circus. ACLU volunteers showed up every day to monitor and harass the Minutemen, at times sounding car horns and flashing lights to alert the illegals that the Border Patrol was coming. This is the border crisis in microcosm?confused Americans rush to defend lawbreakers while ignoring, even demonizing, law-abiding citizens who suffer daily affronts to basic liberties on land their family has tended for 115 years. The Anvil's location, 38 miles north of the border, means that by the time illegals arrive there, they've been walking for days and are sometimes in desperate shape. Between May and August last year, cowboy Jason Cathcart found four sets of human remains. He came to dread spotting what looked like little white balls in the distance. Those ?balls? turned out to be human skulls. In March, a man arrived at the Anvil's front gate so distraught that he ran into the yard and tried to impale himself on a pitchfork. Later he took up a bale hook and used the pointed end to slash his throat. ?This is what life is like in the Altar Valley,? says Pat. Certainly the McCain-Kennedy bill will do nothing to change life here. Pat likens the bill, with its plan for amnesty, a guest-worker program, and negligible enforcement, to swatting flies in your house with the doors and windows wide open. Ask yourself: Would the Altar Valley be a war zone if McCain lived here? If Kennedy's Hyannis Port compound were magically transplanted to southern Arizona, how long do you think it'd be before he rewrote his bill? The first time Kennedy saw 30 illegals dashing across his property, he'd trip over his Guatemalan lawn guy rushing to the Senate floor to demand enforcement. That's one of the American tragedies at play here, the abandonment of ordinary citizens by our country's elites, and most strikingly, the abandonment of the very laws they themselves have written. The resulting invasion has driven legal Arizona residents from their land, including John King's aunt. She lived south of the Anvil for more than 40 years, but sold out rather than keep fighting a battle the federal government has no intention of winning. Pat thinks the street demonstrators?she calls them cowards?need to show their bravery by returning to Mexico and changing that country, not ours. ?We did that with the Boston Tea Party,? she says. ?We were taxed without representation and we rose up and changed it. I think the students in the streets and these young ACLU individuals here are being used. When you talk to them you realize it's all emotion. There's no logic. They don't have a clue.? When it comes to what's really happening on our southern border, neither does the rest of the country. But that would change if every American spent a day at the Anvil. ?Leo W. Banks is a writer in Tucson.

Yes, there are several Outdoor groups, and a few other groups participating.

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Well, what did he say? This was in the paper today, hopefully Sherriff Joe is serious about this.... http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/l...omrail0503.html

still waiting on an answer.... But in the meantime, we need every hunter in Phoenix to show up to this Lake Pleasant claenup, and show CNN and Fox news that we are the true environmentalists.....

We have already contacted Sherriff Joe Arpio to see if we can get a chaingang of illegal alien convicts to come out and help......

Guys, i had a hard time believing it as well. I found out about the area from a ICE officer who helped on the big raid they did at the area. I personally went to the area, and it is 100% illegal alien trash. Backpacks, clothing water bottles ect.... These illegals supposedlly are the ones who come thru Organ Pipe National Monument, and thru Barry Goldwater Bombing range. They skirt Tucson and Casa Grande to avoid high enforcement by Border patrol. This was one of the biggest smuggling rings ICE has uncovered. They guess that between 3000 and 4000 illegals have come thru this area.... Lance I have more pictures if you want, just e-mail me at azhunterswhocare@hotmail.com

Just pulled this from the Star's website: ARIZONA DAILY STAR A Tucson man was killed and his body found at his camp site in the Santa Rita Mountains Sunday, police said. The man told family members he was going hunting and camping on Thursday. They became concerned when they hadn?t heard from him by Sunday and went looking for him at his usual camp site. They found his body at his camp site off Forest Service Road 485 and originally reported to sheriff's deputies that the man had been mauled by a bear. Sheriff investigators classified the death as a homicide. The body was brought down the mountain last night. ?Somebody came upon him between Thursday and Sunday and murdered him,? said Sgt. James Ogden, a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff?s Department. Authorities are not releasing the name of the victim until this afternoon, and an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death. The investigation continued this morning. Read more about it in tomorrow?s Arizona Daily Star. Guys this is just another example why G&F needs to amend the regulation prohibiting carrying a firearm durring archery season. Lance

When did blue jeans, a red and black flannel shirt and an orange cap become the official atire of hunter in this state? I just returned from guiding in 34b, and what a zoo! We saw over 60 hunters in 2 1/2 days and 80% of them were wearing the atire I listed above.

here in Tucson, I constantly see coues deer down in the foothill neighbor hoods at about 2900' elevation. I also have seen numerous whitetails in the flats around 3 points at about 2500' elevation....

Hey guys, who is coming to the Fall Trash cleanup day? The last cleaup day we had over 100 people show up. This cleanup is going to be located at the corner of hwy 286(Sasabee Hwy) and Arivaca Road. It is on October 23 and will start at 7:00am. This is a great way to help out with the destruction of habitat that is going on down south of Tucson. All of the major agencies will be there: AZ G&F, Border Patrol, Buenos Aries NWR, State Land Department. There will be reporters from several of the Tucson News papers and television stations. Also this year 60 Minutes is supposedly sending a camera crew down so that they can do a story. This is a great way for you guys to give back to the sport you love so much... Last year many guys showed up Friday night and camped out, it was a blast, with good food and good stories. Please, lets make a good showing, so that the public will see that hunters really do care. Post back here if you are planning on coming out Lance Altherr

I have had several pairs of twins come into my tree stands. Looks like a good crop this year....

I was just wondering what is the average you guys set your cameras "timeout" at?? I have been setting mine at 5min between pics.... Lance

I have my cameras at salt licks on trails....

here is a small buck that is visiting my stand....