Mission Statement
The Pitchfork Ranch is an important place to be restored and repurposed. Fostering improved habitat for wildlife is paramount for this "multi-purpose" ranch – an impact enterprise with which we hope to encourage others to pursue restoration and carbon sequestration. Returning the land toward its pre-settlement condition, restoring and maintaining its natural processes, addressing climate change, pursuing new thinking about land health via agreement rather than argument are the tasks. Learning the workings of the watershed and ciénaga will serve to save this place, ours for only a short time.
Contact
A.T. & Lucinda Cole
atandcinda@gmail.com
575.574.8593
The Ranch
Beauty is often taken for granted, generally thought of in terms of personal taste, as in “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Yet beauty is far more than a subjective response to some observable something and is one of the ranch’s most important features.
Endangered Wildlife
In addition to the Euphorbia rayturneri, the Pitchfork Ranch has six other species listed as endangered: Chiricahua leopard frog, Gila topminnow, aplomado falcon, Wright’s marsh thistle, viceroy butterfly, and the coatimundi.
This is our Moment of Truth: climate, species extinction, soil exhaustion and an era of pandemics unless we transform ourselves from an Industrial Civilization to and Environmental Civilization. These are crises. We have run out of time. If we chose to maintain the status quo, the future will see the end of civilization, as we know it.