Subject: [BIRDWG05] NM-AZ border in Guadalupe Canyon has moved (fwd)
Date: Jun 28, 2001 @ 16:06
Author: David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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An interesting boundry message from a birding list. Guadalupe Canyon is
at the Mexico - New Mexico - Arizona tri-point and a popular birding spot.
Most birders are interested in borders because they keep a list of birds
for each state or country, so the exact border matters for birding sites.
As a birder, Baarle was hell!

David

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:42:13 -0700
From: Narca Moore-Craig & Alan Craig <narca@...>
To: BIRDWG05@...
Subject: [BIRDWG05] NM-AZ border in Guadalupe Canyon has moved

For all NM state listers,

The NM-AZ border in Guadalupe Canyon isn't quite where we've all thought
it to be--the actual state boundary survey marker was recently found,
and the true border is thus a bit farther up canyon.

Many birders have for years used for a marker the large sycamore (about
3 miles from the locked gate, on the left side of the road as you head
up canyon) which has barbed wire around the doubled trunk, perhaps 3
feet above the ground. The tree has grown around a lot of the wire, so
that the wire is mainly visible between the two trunks. This tree is
VERY close to the road. The survey marker for the state line is another
70 yards up canyon from the tree, as Alan paced it, and before the next
stream crossing. The actual border marker is buried in brush and very
difficult to find. If you miss the tree, an easier-to-find landmark is
the large balanced rock on the right side of the canyon, quite a
prominent and distinctive landmark--when you reach it, you're definitely
in New Mexico by about 1/4 mile.

Hopefully this won't affect people's New Mexico lists by more than a
Costa's Hummingbird or two!

Narca