A hundred years ago, 1924
Effort is being made by the New Mexico Game Protective Association
In order that the man who cares more for the privilege of getting out in the wilds than he does for actual hunting, may have a place away from the smell of gasoline.
The head of the Gila, Mr. Leopold says, is ideally adapted for a wilderness hunting ground It contains no agricultural land and no mineral, as far as it is known.
There are a few cow outfits in the area, but their continues operation would by no means interfere with its function as a wilderness.
The Gila is lavishly endowed...three kinds of deer, two kinds of bear, beavers, antelope, turkey, grouse, pigeons, squirrels and trout. Mr. Leopold says, a thousand devotees of the rifle found a happy hunting ground on the Gila.
Aldo Leopold had suppot of the livestock associations
The president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association, Victor Culbertson, manager of the largest cattle outfit on the Gila, the GOS, was also a friend of Leopold's and helpful in the cause, Flader
Hugh Hodge of the Diamond Bar. Flader
Aldo Leopold and Hunting
Aldo Leopold Returns from Wisconsin to hunt the Gila
Aldo Leopold, associate director of the forest products laboratory at Madison, Wis., and formerly assistant forester in charge of operations at Albuquerque, is proceeding from Magdalena to the N--bar ranch in the Datil forest big game preserve to hunt.
Mr Leopold will hunt deer with the bow and arrow. He is rated as an expert marksman.
Hunting on the N-Bar Ranch, which was owned by his wife's uncle.