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Tire tracks are seen in an area where an OHV driver left an established route in Aztec.
When it comes to outdoor recreation, departing from designated trails can have negative impacts on the areas. Axie Navas, the director of the state’s Outdoor Recreation Division, said mountain bicycles, hikers and off-highway vehicles can all leave their tracks across the landscapes.
But when the driver of an off-highway vehicle, like an ATV or dirt bike, heads off of established trails, it is much more noticeable, according to Roger Pattison, a board member of the industry group endeavOR New Mexico. Pattison has decades of experience with OHVs.
Building New Mexico s outdoor economy
by Stephen Hamway, The Associated Press
Posted May 1, 2021 10:02 am EDT
Last Updated May 1, 2021 at 10:14 am EDT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Ryan and Cody Dudgeon both grew up in northwest New Mexico. Both left for greener pastures in Missoula, Montana.
But after working as river guides in Montana and Idaho for 14 years, the married couple came to see the rivers that flowed through their New Mexico homes differently.
They moved back to Farmington in 2015 and are planning to start leading river-rafting expeditions on the Animas and San Juan rivers in May through their new company, Desert River Guides.
Stephen Hamway May 01, 2021 - 7:02 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ryan and Cody Dudgeon both grew up in northwest New Mexico. Both left for greener pastures in Missoula, Montana.
But after working as river guides in Montana and Idaho for 14 years, the married couple came to see the rivers that flowed through their New Mexico homes differently.
They moved back to Farmington in 2015 and are planning to start leading river-rafting expeditions on the Animas and San Juan rivers in May through their new company, Desert River Guides.
âWe really fell in love with the lifestyle and the whole scene when we were in Missoula, so we wanted to bring that to Farmington,â Ryan Dudgeon told the Albuquerque Journal.
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By STEPHEN HAMWAY - Associated Press - Saturday, May 1, 2021
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Ryan and Cody Dudgeon both grew up in northwest New Mexico. Both left for greener pastures in Missoula, Montana.
But after working as river guides in Montana and Idaho for 14 years, the married couple came to see the rivers that flowed through their New Mexico homes differently.
They moved back to Farmington in 2015 and are planning to start leading river-rafting expeditions on the Animas and San Juan rivers in May through their new company, Desert River Guides.
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Axie Navas, director of New Mexico’s Outdoor Recreation Division, with a brown trout in the Rio Grande Gorge’s Middle Box.
Earlier this month, I caught a brown trout in the Middle Box of the Rio Grande Gorge.
The small silvery, speckled fish was not particularly notable – browns especially are common in this stretch of the Rio, part of one of the best cold-water fisheries in the U.S. – other than marking a few personal firsts. I’ve never fly-fished, I’d never scrambled down to that slice of the gorge, and I’d certainly never caught a trout. Ecstatic doesn’t begin to describe it.