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The Voices of the Cienega Watershed Partnership
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    • Austin Moss Oral History Interview

    • Austin Moss Oral History Interview

    • Moss, Austin

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Austin Moss was born on December 9, 1923 in Oracle, Arizona. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by his grandmother and other family members in Tucson and New Mexico. At the age of 15 he was hired to maintain and repair windmills by rancher...
    • James Pickrell Oral History Interview

    • James Pickrell Oral History Interview

    • Pickrell, James

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Veterinary Medicine--Arizona

    • Dr. James Pickrell is a veterinarian who worked for the Boice family at the Empire Ranch. Jim went to high school with Pancho and Bob Boice. His first involvement with the Empire Ranch as a veterinarian was when the foreman, Fred Barnett, asked...
    • George Proctor Oral History Interview

    • George Proctor Oral History Interview

    • Proctor, George

    • Oral history—Arizona; Watershed Management—Arizona; Forest Rangers—West (U.S.)—History

    • George Proctor discusses water resources and water politics in southern Arizona. He reflects on his career in the Forest Service and shares his observations of changes in the local climate as well as the habits of native wildlife. Mr. Proctor also...
    • Karen Simms Oral History Interview

    • Karen Simms Oral History Interview

    • Simms, Karen

    • Cienega Watershed (Ariz.); Bureau of Land Management; Land Use--Planning; Donaldson, John; Fish

    • An interview of Karen Simms, who has lived and worked on Las Cienegas National Conservation Area for 23 years. She began as a field biologist and became an ecologist and land use planner for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Karen describes how...
    • Jim Van Auken Oral History Interview

    • Jim Van Auken Oral History Interview

    • Van Auken, Jim

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Livestock--Inspection--Arizona

    • Jim Van Auken was an Arizona livestock inspector (1953-1983) who inspected the last Boice Empire Ranch cattle and inspected Donaldson cattle at the Empire and on John Donaldson's Tortuga ranch. He describes the role of a livestock inspector and his...
    • Mary Vail Wilkinson Oral History Interview

    • Mary Vail Wilkinson Oral History Interview

    • Wilkinson, Mary Vail

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Mary shares remembrances of her life as a child on the Empire Ranch. Born in 1887, Mary Vail was Walter and Margaret Vail's daughter and lived at the Empire Ranch until the Vail family moved to Los Angeles in 1896. This file is an excerpt from...
    • Jeff Williamson Oral History Interview

    • Jeff Williamson Oral History Interview

    • Williamson, Jeff

    • Cienega Watershed (Ariz.); conservation of natural resources; Adaptive management (Environmental Management); Donaldson, John; Seidman, Mike

    • An interview of Jeff Williamson, Senior Conservationist with the Phoenix Zoo, who has logged in thousands of miles to conserve the Cienega Watershed. As director of the Arizona Zoological Society/Phoenix Zoo, Jeff brought together scientists,...

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