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Article: Elephant stripes. (Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico)(Special Regional Section)
- Article from:
- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
- Author:
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If there's a lake in the nation that disproves the theory that new reservoirs peak at five years and then gradually decline, it is New Mexico's Elephant Butte. This ancient impoundment was built when my father was fighting Germans in France. No, not World War II, but the first one, more than 75 years ago. Ever since then, the 36,000-acre reservoir has continually astonished anglers.
The latest bonanza is striped bass. Accidentally stocked in the 1970s, stripers took so well to the desert lake that New Mexico Department of Game and Fish biologists made subsequent plants. Records were broken year after year, until the department became alarmed about an apparent ...
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Article: ELEPHANT BUTTE RESERVOIR; FARMERS TAKE WATER-RIGHTS ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM);
August 26, 2009 ;
700+ words
... ... any rights to store and deliver water from Elephant Butte to Southern New Mexico and Texas farmers. Either way, Judge Gerald ... will be appealed, given the critical role Elephant Butte plays in New Mexico water policy and politics. A group of Mesilla ...
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