Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

Asa many of you are aware, in December, 2015 the Cholla land and Cattle Company, who is the lessee of the Big Boquillas Ranch in Unit 10, announced that they were going to charge a $500 access fee for "High Demand" tags, meaning archery and early rifle elk tags, and archery and rifle antelope tags.

The Arizona Game & Fish Department stepped in and negotiated with the Navajo Nation for a reduction of fees for those tags down to $80. While still a 33 1/3 percent increase over 2015 fees, it still wasn't $500. And they got a reduction of antlerless elk tags from $60--in 0215 to $50 in 2016.

Bottom line is that access has been obtained for 2016 and 2017.

Have you ever wondered how all that came about?

Do you believe Cholla and and the Navajo Nation did this out of the "goodness of their hearts?" Or might there have been an "incentive" out there for them to reconsider their actions?

If you would like to read how this all came to fruition, make sure you go to the Kingman Daily Miner newspaper, Outdoor Page, on Tuesday and read what I found out about all of this.

One thing is for sure, there is no Santa Claus; or nice guys when it comes to the serious business of wildlife management, especially on checker-boarded lands like the Boquillas Ranch.

RE: Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

Don - Post a link.


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RE: Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

>Don - Post a link.
>
>
>"You can fly a helicopter to
>the top of Everest and
>say you've been there. The
>problem with that is you
>were an a$$hole when you
>started and you're still an
>a$$hole when you get back.
>
>Its the climb that makes you
>a different person". - Yvon
>Chouinard

Here ya go...interesting read. http://kdminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=604&ArticleID=69876

RE: Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

Mr. Martin, excellent article and based on hard earned information. Thank you for the work you do for all AZ hunters!

RE: Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

Just reading between the lines I SEE landowner tags head your way. Money will decide where and how much them tags will go for in the future.

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RE: Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

Nice article Don! Doesn't surprise me one bit if they simply took a chunk of money from a fund and gave it to the ranch. Yeah it got hunters access but game and fish probably saw lots of money disappearing by people not putting in for unit ten so they took our money to benefit themselves and to benefit the ranch. And the sad part? There's nothing anyone can do about it! It's all about the cash in their pockets. Do you know how much habitat improvement or drinkers or fence projects we could have done with $55,000? Now a ranch that already makes an ungodly amount of money got $55,000 for free! Who even knows what the money will go to. If it goes to fixing up tanks and fences on their ranch it's a deal for them either way. Sad to see what our department has become.

RE: Boquillas Ranch fee question? Why did Cholla Land and Cattle Co & Navajo Nation agree to a reduction this year?

Probably end up someone's down payment on a new pickup.

Thank you for your tireless work Don, you are one of the good guys.

Bill