February 1, 2005    The Official Newsletter of the New Mexico 4-Wheelers    www.nm4w.org

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The meeting was called to order by Sheriff and acting President, Jeff Rector soon after 7:00 pm.

Members Present:  Glenn Bontly, Bill Cline, The Millers (Bobby), Jason Lavy, Daniel Juarez, Jerry Marx, Marcia Duggar, Bob Norton, The Tanners, Jeffery Woodard, The Wolfs, The Rectors, Tom Hurt, Erwin Greven, Cliff Meier, The Thompsons, Ryan Elkland, Frank G. Whiston, The Bradys (Pat), Mike Cook, Arne G, Stella Sierra, Nancy Crowley, The Markhams, Rich Capener, Joe Abbate & Glenn Capener.  Present but did not sign in: Dave Trappett, his better half & 3-week old Jacob; Mark Werkmeister.

Guests: Craig Volcik (84 Toyota), Justin Simenson (05 Rubi), Mary Turpin & daughters (03 Rubi), Ken O’Niell (Toyota), Joe Donnelly (Reporter for TDR publication), David Marks (02 TJ), Phil Rodacy (03 Rubi), Steve Hemphill (97 Landcruiser) Willie Kaplan (94 YJ), Gary Markel (85 CJ-7).

Sheriff’s Report – Sheriff Rector (and acting President for the evening) levied only one fine.  He fined Wolfie $.25 for a u-turn on the Caballo Lake trip.  Apparently Glenn Bontly had to use his GPS to get them out.

Treasurer’s Report - $1,690.13 as of 1/11/05.  The club post office box will be paid soon to the tune of $68.00.

Trip Chairman – Past runs: Sagebrush Flats on New Year’s Day.  Upcoming runs:  Rio Puerco on 2/5/05.  Meet at 9 am at the Walgreen’s on Southern and Unser.  Chile Challenge in February down in Las Cruces.  BUY RAFFLE TICKETS; WIN GREAT PRIZES!!!!  Third Annual Auge’s 4x4 101 on April 16, 2005.  Pat Brady will once again lead the construction crew.  Contact Pat if you wish to volunteer to help set up the course.  Silverton, CO trip September 17^th thru 25^th – Chuck & Ethel May Peeples will be up there the entire week including the weekends before and after.  This trip could be rescheduled if it conflicts with the SWFWDA Fall Quarterly.  Marcia Duggar has tentatively planned a trip to Hole-in-the-rock in April.  This run is considered moderate, but bad weather will “make it more interesting”.

Environment Chairman – Sadly, the fight to reopen trails in the Robledo Mountains is a dead issue at the moment.  Several supporters bailed.  However, the BLM now knows that 4-wheelers will continue to fight.

Historian – Rich received a CD containing pictures.  He will get them printed and put in the scrapbooks.  Send him pictures, etc. for the scrapbooks!!

Program Chairman – He will order shirts & hats next week.  We have a few shirts and hats in stock.

Old Business:

Concerns about our name being on the highway clean-up sign were voiced.  Tom Hurt volunteered to contact the State Highway Dept. (again) and ask that they remove the sign.

The corporation papers have been signed and mailed.

A few months ago a committee was formed to gather and map GPS data from club members.  Marcia Duggar contacted the Tijeras BLM; they said there are no trails in the Sandias or Manzanos.  However, they suggested the Zuni Mountains and areas around Mt. Taylor.  Someone suggested contacting Jeeps West out of Gallup and the Jemez BLM.

New Business:

Mark Wolf received a motion from SWFWDA to raise the dues to SW by $1.50 per club member and to continue to “stay ahead” of the United dues by $.50.  There was discussion as to what exactly the SWFWDA and United FWDA did for the clubs.  After clarification, a motion was made, seconded, and passed to vote in favor of the motion made by the SWFWDA.  Club member’s dues to NM4W will not increase at this time.

Jerry Marx read a letter from All Faith’s Receiving Home thanking the club for their donation.  The letter was forwarded to the Historian to be placed in a scrapbook.

A Get-Well card for Deb Werkmeister was circulated.  She will have (or did) have surgery this month.  GET WELL, DEB!

Marsha Duggar made new name tags for all the members.  THANK YOU, MARSHA!!

Ken O’Niell & Steve Hemphill were voted in as new members.

Dave Trappett introduced his new 4-wheelin’ buddy.  Jacob was born December 24, 2004.  Mark Werkmeister reported that Jim (Captain Spandex) & Nicole Werkmeister have a new member of their clan.  Samuel (Spandex) Werkmeister was born January 4, 2005.  Welcome Little Ones!

The 50/50 raffle was held.  We had some extra give away items thanks to Auge’s in Belen.  The winners are as follows:

The meeting was adjourned at some point (although I don’t know the exact time).

Thank you to Ethel May and Chuck Peeples for hosting the meeting!  What a spread!!!

For the Tanners, four-wheeling at Canyon de Chelly last October was as awesome as their first time in 1995.  The 1995 trip was in Carlos’ stock ’88 Cherokee, and was the Tanner’s first off-road experience and first Jeep Jamboree.  They were immediately hooked on the accessibility to special places that four-wheeling offered.

The Tanners have since done one Canadian and nine U.S. Jeep Jamborees.  Their favorites are Canyon de Chelly for the spirituality, history, and archaeology, and British Colombia for the unmatched beauty.  Other areas high on their list are Moab and the Pacific Northwest trail at the base of Mt. Ranier.  At the Pacific NW trail, their vehicle width was measured to make certain it would fit between the trees!

The Tanner’s route to New Mexico was circuitous.  Carlos was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana.  His Dad was a carpenter and they moved around a lot.  After high school, Carlos attended Sam Houston State and earned degrees in Business and Industrial Psychology and later his MBA.

Carlos spent the first half of his career in Houston as Human Resources Director of Fluor Daniel, an international engineering/construction firm.  In 1984, he joined Dillingham Construction in the San Francisco Bay area and served as Director of Corporate HR.  That job was a lot of fun, but also involved long hours and extensive travel.  In 2001, he and Laurye retired and moved to New Mexico.  Carlos had worked at the Philmont Boy Scout Camp as a young man and was realizing his dream to live in New Mexico.

Laurye, born and raised in Houston, earned two degrees in Education from the University of Houston.  During her career, she taught math at all grade levels and also consulted in math and taught writing skills to teachers throughout Texas.

The Tanners met at a dinner party arranged by Laurye’s matchmaking former sister-in-law.  Laurye accepted the dinner invitation only because her sister-in-law pleaded for help making the gumbo.  That must have been some gumbo Laurye concocted, because it was the start of a nine year long-distance romance between Carlos in California and Laurye in Texas. They happily married in 1997.

The blended Tanner family consists of Laurye’s 21 year-old son, Joseph, a student at UT-Arlington and Carlos’ two adult children, Curtis and Christina. Curtis is a Wetlands Naturalist Scientist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife in Olympia WA.  Christina is a teacher in Denton TX and the mother of the two Tanner grandchildren, Elanor and Harry.  Laurye also remains close to her 87-year old mother who lives in Texas.  Her mother hailed from Louisiana Cajun country and instilled in Laurye an appreciation of all things Cajun, including gumbo.

Getting back to Jeeps, Carlos has owned and enjoyed three.  The ’88 Cherokee got him interested in off-roading, and the ’98 Grand that he still drives has many Moab miles.  He now takes his ’99 Wrangler off road, and has added a 4” lift, 31” tires, ARB onboard air, front disconnects, and a CB radio.  The next modification will be a slip yoke eliminator kit.  Lockers are #1 on his wish list, followed by upgrading the rear axle and driveshaft.  Laurye, the family’s designated photographer, wants to figure out a hood-mounted seat for picture taking.

Besides digital photography, Laurye’s hobbies include French flower beading, needlepoint, and cooking.  She and Carlos both love making Thai, Cajun, and Southwest foods.  They also enjoy ocean cruises and caring for their dogs (Beethoven and Sarah) and kittens (Albu, and her sister, Querque).

Carlos’ interests include books, and woodworking in his shop.  He has over 1,000 books, ranging from Southwest mysteries to Native Americana to histories.  If his honey-do list allows, he wants to take up leather tooling.

Carlos and Laurye became NM4W members two years ago and learned about the club through the website.  “We still use the NM4W and Glenn’s webejeepin.com websites all the time,” adds Carlos.  They enjoy the NM4W club a lot, although they said it took awhile to get some of the inside jokes.

They want to increase their involvement by hosting a summer meeting at their home in the East Mountains and leading a trip.  If anyone is interested in a Louisiana Arcadia trip (think swamps, jambalaya, Zydeco music), contact Laurye.  Another trip they’re contemplating is the Southern Ute Reservation in Colorado.  On their way from Colorado to the SW4WDA Fall Quarterly in Farmington, they spotted a sign advertising four-wheeling at the Reservation.  Carlos also may volunteer to help with public relations for the Southwest Four Wheel Drive Association.  The Tanners see lots of potential for more four-wheeling and photography with NM4W, including any future trips to Canyon de Chelly!

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An unbelievable 26 vehicles showed up at the Conoco on 528 to go wheeling on New Year’s Day!  We were joined at the trail head in Santa Fe by Four Wheeler Magazine Feature Editor Robin Stover with his father Richard(?) and lady friend Rhonda driving a 2005 Range Rover (look for an article in Four Wheeler magazine sometime in the future). 

Members were, Glenn Bontly (TJ), Chuck & Ethel May Peeples (TJ- Mary will not allow Chuck to bring his CJ-8), Paul & Mary Thompson (YJ), Mike Blohm and his lady friend Nicole Scott (ZJ), Jeff (CJ-7) and Lauri Rector (YJ), Tom Hurt (CJ-5), Christy Ohnesorg & Mike Coe (TJ), Eric Finch with friend Lisa (YJ), Jeffrey Woodard with friend Joe Jackson (GMC Jimmy), Robert Brady (YJ), Frank & Donna Whiston (TJ), Chris & Laura Johnson with their two children Stephyn and Bayleigh (CJ-5), Glenn Capener (TJ), Phil & Carol Kennicot (in their new Rubicon!), Bob Norton (the F-150!), Erwin and Jeannie Grevin (Tracker), Cliff and Jeanne Meier (Tracker), Jerry Marx & guest John Kneemeyer (TJ), Leon & Marcia Duggar (XJ), and of course me (Jeepster).  Visitors were Mark Berglund (Rubicon), Clemente & Flo Abeyta (YJ), Deb Cade and her son Ben (TJ – Welcome back!), Craig Volcik & Daughter Lexi (Toyota truck), and Mary & Craig Turpin with friend Joe R. (Rubicon).  We pulled out at about 9:05AM and headed for Santa Fe.  The weather was beautiful and sunny.  The snow had pretty much all melted, leaving only remnants in the shadows, once again, but with mud on the road this time.  Lot’s of it!!!  The Four Wheeler crew met us there in Santa Fe with the 05’ Range Rover.

After we all found a spot to air down our tires (way too much mud everywhere!), we got going.  I decided that we would not run Tom’s Hill this time, as there were too many vehicles.  Instead, I headed for the trailhead and then on to the end of the trail to run it backwards.  Unfortunately, I never go that way and discovered a locked gate!  We turned around and headed down the trail towards the overlook to Los Alamos and Whiterock.  It was a beautiful day, except for all that mud!!  I had a lot on my Jeepster, but I think Sheriff Rector won the contest for “most dirty”.  We got to the overlook pretty easily and Robin Stover took several pictures.  We stopped for lunch for about an hour to gab a little and look at the sites.  It was a great view.  I tried to talk to all of the visitors as there were many, but am sure I missed few.  Sorry, I tried, but I like to talk a lot (ask anyone who knows me!).

After about an hour, Robin and his passengers decided to go back to the rock garden and setup for some pictures.  I got everyone headed out and got very close to the rock garden when I decided I had better wash off my windshield, as I couldn’t see anything out of it.  It took most of my water, but I got it clean enough to see out of anyway.  We continued and Robin had setup with a tri-pod to get everyone’s picture.  He took several throughout the day and should have enough to complete his article.

We kept up a steady pace and stopped every once in a while to let everyone catch up.  The end of the trail came pretty quickly and we got back to the air up spot.  This time everyone parked along the side of the road to air up, as it was just too muddy to pull into the normal place.  It was about 3:00 PM.  We then all parted company and headed home.  I would like to thank those who came along to enjoy their day.  No one had any problems that I’m aware of.  It was a lot more fun than watching football or nursing a hang over!  See you next year!

THIS COULD SAVE SOMEBODY'S LIFE!!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.  Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.  The stroke victim may suffer brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say any bystander can recognize a possible stroke by performing this simple test:

            - Ask the individual to smile

            - Ask him or her to raise both arms

            - Ask the person to speak a simple sentence

If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher!

After discovering that a group of non-medical volunteers could identify facial weakness, arm weakness, and speech problems, researchers urged the general public to learn to ask the three questions.  They presented their conclusions at the American Stroke Association's annual meeting last February.  Widespread use of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and treatment of the stroke and minimize brain damage.

HEART ATTACK. Self HELP:  A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this message shares it with 10 people, you can bet that at least one life will be saved.  Read this... It could save your life!!

Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job.  You're really tired, upset, and frustrated.  Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.  You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home.  Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.  You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE:  Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before becoming unconscious.  However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.  A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs, and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.  The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.  Tell as many people as possible about this.  It could save their lives!!

BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO FRIENDS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE TO LOSE.

Hi.  Would you please pass this on to your association and club members in NM?  Thanks, Carla Boucher, Attorney - United Four Wheel Drive Associations

Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: Western CPR Summit

Dear Potential Summit Participant:

We would like to make you aware of an important event concerning the restoration of western forests and watersheds.  The Western Counties Partnership on Restoration (CPR) Summit will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, March 30 & 31, 2005 at the Convention Center in Ruidoso, NM.

The Western CPR Summit is designed to present approaches for implementing the President’s Forest Health Initiative and the Western Governors’ Association 10-Year Plan, and will include some 500 representatives from federal, state, local and tribal governments, industry, private landowners, public interest groups and academia from across the West.  Special emphasis will be placed on building effective collaborative partnerships among all levels of government and involving community action groups in designing and implementing restoration strategies.

The Summit will cover a wide range of topics related to forest and watershed restoration, and will provide an opportunity for information exchange on successes and lessons learned in planning, collaborative processes, and implementation.  Further, this important summit will showcase the tremendous achievements that have been made across the West, and what we are poised to accomplish with national funding and policy support.

Invited speakers on the Summit Agenda will represent the offices of the President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Interior and the United States Congress.  Please see the draft agenda below for more information on the Summit program.  A website on the Summit will be available by February 1^st and registration information as well as a final agenda will be sent to you at that time. For more information, please contact Otero County (505) 437-7427.

Registration for the Summit will begin on February 1^st, and you will receive an invitation with registration information at that time.  Until then, please MARK YOUR CALENDARS with the Summit dates: Wednesday and Thursday, March 30 & 31, 2005, Convention Center in Ruidoso, New Mexico.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Arthur “Butch” Blazer, State Forester
Michael Nivison, Otero County Commissioner
Jose Martinez, Forest Supervisor, Lincoln Nat’l Forest

Forwarded by: John Stewart, Director, Environmental Affairs, United FWD Associations

I received the following heart breaking news yesterday from Homer Van Zandt out of Las Cruces.  Please read and ask any questions you have. A note of confidence to the Las Cruces Four Wheel Drive Club (LCFWDC) would be welcome as they worked hard to support South West Four Wheel Drive Association (SWFWDA) in this endeavor.  Unfortunately, politics reared its ugly head and we lost!  Hopefully, there will be another time.  It is very important that we build our "war chest" of funding in the SWFWDA Land Action Fund for the next fight!  There will be one, it's just a matter of time.

For those not familiar with this issue, it has been an on-going legal fight to reverse a closure of many access routes in the Robledos Mountains of New Mexico.  They have been aided with support from the local county commissioners until this......

Greetings, Folks:

I have spent the past two weeks talking to county commissioners and generally mucking around in slimy local politics and I am pretty well convinced that we are at the end of the road, at least for now.  The question of rescinding the previous decision to assert public right-of-way status for the roads in the Robledos is on the agenda for the next Commission Meeting and, at this point, we do not have a single vote to continue.  The two commissioners remaining in office who supported us before have decided that their best interests are elsewhere and all of them are scrambling to position themselves according to various agendas.

I will attend the meeting Jan 11 and make a statement in favor of going forward, but it will just be pro forma.  I have conferred with Lee Peters and he can't suggest anything else we can do, other than maybe try again sometime in the future.  Lee feels pretty bad about the situation because he has come to take the issue personally.

The only other avenues I can see are: 1) try to get the state to assert right-of-way (not likely - same problem as with the county), and 2) try to convince our congress members to act one way or the other on the wilderness question.  I'm not sure we are ready to open that can of snakes, yet.  Simply put, it looks like we have struck out.  I'm sorry - we tried.

Homer R. Van Zandt

Response from: Mark Werkmeister, NM4-Wheelers

Sorry to hear that, but I can’t say I’m surprised.

I have sat down several times to make a reply, but it is really difficult for me in this case.  As an ardent supporter of this effort from the very beginning, I would have to say that I am disappointed in the outcome, disillusioned with our court system, and disgusted with the selfish “I want it all (and it makes me a lot of money)” mentality of our foes and their, often times unwitting, supporters.

On the other hand, there are some very positive things that have come out of the effort of the past years.  1) First and foremost, we have demonstrated to the BLM that we will not stand idly by and let them illegally close roads and areas on a whim or under pressure to appease the greens.  While they may have ultimately prevailed on this particular situation, I am sure they will consider more carefully the impacts of their actions in the future.  We knew it was an uphill battle when we started, but gave it an effort that the BLM will not soon forget.  2) We proved that LCFWDC/SWFWDA can set an extremely high goal and reach it.  How many of the members five years ago would have believed that the organizations could raise that much money to spend on a legal battle?  Overall, the organization has been outstanding in response to this challenge.

Looking to the future, there are three things that we should work toward:  1) Do everything we can to build a solid, real relationship with our local land managers so that it is much more difficult for them to pull the types of shenanigans that the Las Cruces office pulled with us.  2) Continue to raise money for a war chest for the next needed legal challenge because this type of thing will continue in the future.  Our demonstrated and credible ability to challenge the BLM in court will also continue to help keep them on the straight and narrow in the future.  3) Keep an eye toward the future and an ear to the ground for shifts and changes.  As we have learned, politics plays a huge role in these decisions and even in the court cases.  Politics is a very dynamic thing and if the commissioners or their stands change, we should be ready to try again when things swing in our favor.

Mark

Response from: Mark Wolf, President, Southwest Four Wheel Drive Association

Homer: I want to personally thank you and the LCFWDC for YEARS of hard work and persistence on this matter.  I am very disappointed with the current outcome, but like everyone else, am not too surprised.  I wish I knew who got to those Commissioners, but we’ll never know.  The “other side” has so much more money than we’ll ever have and this state has a lot of people who get bought off due to its relatively small population.  I would agree that we should continue to monitor the situation with the Commissioners and see if another opportunity may arise that would favor our views.  I am truly sorry it came out this way.

Mark has a good point.  We should continue to build our “war chest” to attack the next issue that should rear its ugly head.  The current administration is more favorable to our needs than the previous, but that does nothing to deter those rich zealots that think it should all be their way or none.  The paper today had a small article about how GREENPEACE thinks the Arizona and New Mexico Mogollon ridge is the most pure forest land in the US.  What does that mean?  It means they are setting their sights on this state and Arizona to fight anything that would keep those areas from becoming “wild” again.  The efforts we put forth will not be long forgotten. Our fight goes on!

Mark Wolf

From: Liberty Matters - January 21, 2005
Enviros Told to Quit Litigating

In the wake of the U.S. Department of Interior announcement last week that it will not list the Greater Sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species, Diane Hoppe, Colorado State Representative urged environmental groups to quit litigating and start conserving.  "What are some of these so-called environmental groups bringing to the conservation table?” Ms. Hoppe asked . . ."Little beyond a never-ending stream of destructive and costly lawsuits."  Jim Simms, Executive Vice President of Partnership for the West concurred and declared it an "extraordinary win for the West.  The sad news is that those who pushed this listing petition forced the wasteful spending of millions of taxpayers' dollars at the federal and state levels that could otherwise have been spent helping sage grouse and preserving their habitat."  Another positive ruling was handed down in Oregon this week when federal district Judge Michael Hogan, once again, ruled that the federal government violated the ESA by refusing to recognize that hatchery-raised coho salmon are genetically identical to wild coho salmon.  By using the narrow definition of wild coho, the government justified its decision to cut off irrigation water to Klamath Basin farmers.  "Our rivers and streams are teeming with salmon, yet the Klamath community was practically destroyed because of environmental politics run amok," said Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) attorney, Russ Brooks.

ESA Reform or Reauthorization?  Congress may attempt to reform and in so doing reauthorize the Endangered Species Act with a couple of proposals that are gaining support among House members.  One would change how "critical habitat" is designated and the other would require the "best" scientific proof that a species is actually endangered or threatened before it can be listed.  "Ninety percent of the species in the United States have habitat on private land.  So, if we do not improve the law so that we embrace the private landowner to engage in recovery efforts, we're going to have a very hard time improving that less that 1 percent recovery rate over the past 30 years," said Brian Kennedy, U. S. House Resource Committee Communication Director.  While environmentalists warn reform efforts will "gut" the Act, that is highly unlikely as both its supporters and detractors well know. The Western Governors' Association, at its meeting in San Diego in December, called for changes to allow landowners to help recover species without the specter of lawsuits and loss of property rights as their reward.  Colorado Governor Bill Owens, chairman of the Governors' Association, said the Act has been a dismal failure during its thirty-year existence.  "More than 1,000 species have been listed under the Act but less than 1 percent has been successfully recovered," he said.  Setting a very dangerous precedent, Congressman Richard Pombo (R-CA) and Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) have advised a group of property rights advocates to "tone down" their language and replace words such as "property rights" with "conservation and recovery."  This is necessary they claim to win the two fixes they propose while forgetting property rights are landowners only protection.

Aluminum Cans: Our club saves and recycles aluminum cans.  Money from the sale of cans goes into our club treasury.  Please bring your crushed aluminum cans to each meeting, and somebody will take them to the recycling center.

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