Colorado Mountain Land newsletter



	When you are ready to build or do improvements to your land, the Costilla and Alamosa websites are great sources of information concerning permits, getting a street address, and many other subjects that are important at that stage of the game. www.costilla-county.com http://www.alamosacounty.org/
*Flattery might be the best form of a compliment but---* Recently we found a party selling land on eBay 200 miles away from Costilla County with photos that were pirated off of our site. This is disturbing, first because of the misleading photos, secondly because all our photos are copyrighted. He/she claimed that they were just down-loaded off a site called "Photobucket.com" which I believe. If you buy land from us, you are welcome to the photos; we even send them to you at times in printed form. But please don't upload them to a public site without giving us credit. At some point, we need to put a logo on all our photos but we just don't have time to go back and do all the old ones.

Notes from late fall of 2007-- Once again, we have been reminded of importance of Mother Nature and respecting the safety of our wildlife. In Unit X of SDCR where our home/office is located, we never thought there would be any threat of bears, but the neighbors up the road had one on their deck one evening, possibly attracted to their barbeque grill. Later, in the same area where a group of our neighbors share a trash receptacle, we now have to chain the lids down, as probably the same black bear had made his presence known. Our elevation here is around 8,100 feet and we are suprised to know that the bears were down this far. The lack of moisture affected their food sources greatly this year and in the late fall, the bears are especially hungry and needing to stock up before their big sleep. I am told there was a mountain lion in the area as well and I am now looking twice when I head outside at night to walk our little doggie.
A very well-written article appeared in one of the local papers suggesting that in our eagerness to feed the birds in the high-county-- we are also harming the BEARS. The writer stated that in our area- -birds can find plenty of food during the spring, summer, and fall. They really need food put out for them in the winter months - at least those who stick around. The bears, on the other hand, are looking for food in the spring, summer, and fall - especially the fall -- and the scent of sunflower seeds or even the sweet drop of hummingbird mixture that has fallen from your deck - will attract them and cause them to come back to your bird-feeders repeatedly, and then to go looking for the source of the food-- like your home or your shed. The author said that a Fed Bear is a Dead Bear-- because once they get the taste for the food that we inadvertently lure them towards with our kind hearted bird feeding techniques, then eventually they may have to be re-located or put down for their bad habits, which were human-caused. A good point to ponder.

A lock cut, another shed door open, some wood stolen off a vacant parcel. It is an on-going problem with all the empty spaces. Some areas of the county are defiantly posting NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH signs. It is sad that a few think they are entitled to something for nothing.

One of our parcels of land had a fresh load of someone's fireplace debris dumped on it and nearby there was a pick-up load of broken glass that had also been left there. It was at the end of a cul-de-sac -- hidden, out of view, where cowards go do this awful stuff. The scumbags can drive around for 10 miles into the SDCR to dump their trash, but they can't afford a dumping fee at the land-fill or the monthly cost of regular trash pickup. It is pretty sad when you value the land and the environment with such contempt.

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