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West Texas is no stranger to drought, but the last three years has hit farmers and ranchers
near El Paso especially hard. NRCS has had to come up with innovated conservation practices
to help them cope with the drought.
It's very difficult to find water resources, surface resources here so we have worked with
NRS to put in passive water guzzlers that catch water from rain and those are connected
to wildlife toughs and that it's a really important source of surface water for wildlife.
Through that we have actually seen mule deer coming back into the area, just the other
week we saw five deer in the area and we are very pleased to see that, we know that is
directly related to the guzzlers, the fact that these deer can find water resources at
a surface level, they are being re-introduced into this area where maybe you just didn't
see that as often, but to be able to see wildlife starting to come back into this area is I
think it really highlights that working relationship with NRCS and has shown that its positive
work, its good work.
For more information on Water Guzzlers or other conservation practices, contact your
local NRCS field office.
For the United States Department of Agriculture, I'm Bob Ellison.