Links

 

Much more to come on this page, hopefully. We are actively encouraging suggestions here, and would like this to become a “favorites” list. Send your suggestions to info@gclpo.org and watch this page grow. We’d especially appreciate links to stories about local livestock producers. Thanks for your help!

 

Local Highlights

Miscellaneous

 

Santa Rosa is the county seat of Guadalupe County, and its official site is a good source of information about upcoming local events. The link is www.santarosanm.org.

For those who like cowboy poetry, here’s an incredible selection of some of the best of it, along with histories of the poems and biographies of the poets: www.cowboypoetry.com.

 

Here’s a link to an informative and really complimentary article about Guadalupe County ranchers Jim and Carol Thorpe (JT Land and Cattle): Click here to read the article. It was published by The New Farm (Rodale Institute) and is entitled “The New Ranch: Rethinking Range Management in the Arid West”.

For people who live in rural areas, resources like www.free-ed.net are especially valuable. The site offers free online courses, tutorials, and skill-building activities in many areas, including GED Prep, Conversational Spanish, Essentials of Plumbing, Basics of Hydraulics, Fundamentals of Windows XP, PowerPoint, mathematics, music, history, and English composition, culinary and food preparation instruction, and much, much more. Now that’s convenience!

Here’s another article about Jim and Carol Thorpe, written by Jim, which was published in the February 2004 Newsletter of the Quivira Coalition, beginning on page 4, entitled “Confessions of a New Rancher”. This is a good read!

Click here for the National Weather Service Climate Summaries in Guadalupe County (and elsewhere in New Mexico).

 

 

The USGS publishes real-time data for New Mexico streamflow at each gauge station for each of the major river basins. To view Pecos River Basin flow, scroll down the page a bit. For those with above-average interest in this sort of data, you can build your own custom tables. This type of information seems to draw more interest during times of erratic streamflow behavior (e.g., floods), but the whole picture makes more sense if you familiarize yourself beforehand with measurement units and normal streamflow patterns. Click here for the link.

 

 

Switchboard is an online phone directory and more. Search for phone numbers and addresses of people or businesses nationwide, get maps and directions, search by phone number (reverse lookup), get area codes and zip codes. This is a handy resource.

 

 

Click here to read the New Mexico Game and Fish Department’s weekly fishing report.

 

 

For free tax software, visit TaxACT.com. You have two choices: online or download. There is a free version of both. Or for $9.95 you can buy the Deluxe version to do your taxes online; for $12.95 you can buy the downloadable version. The Deluxe versions include extra tax help and advice. There is also a “Deluxe + State” version (which costs a few dollars more) that you may decide against ordering, since you can file your NM state income tax directly with the state for free (click here for the link), although you do have to create a profile and log in as part of this process.

 

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This page last updated 2-19-07