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Mexico Advisory Services is able to process yearly fishing licenses, which are required of every adult or minor who wishes to fish in freshwater or saltwater in Mexico. The regulation applies to anyone fishing out of a boat or fishing underwater while skin diving. A license is not needed for surf fishing. If you plan to make multiple fishing trips to Mexico, a one-year fishing license is the best deal for you. Shipping and handling are already included in the $75.00 price. All passengers aboard a boat engaged in fishing in Mexican waters must have a fishing license in their possession, regardless of age or aptitude. All fishing licenses are personal and non-transferrable. Any alteration of this document will render it invalid and may result in a fine or temporary seizure of the boat.

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TRAVELING IN MEXICO DESPITE DRUG VIOLENCE AND H1N1
By Christopher Reynolds, from the Los Angeles Times

Keep in mind that the drug war is far from most resorts and other tourist areas and follow the U.S. State Department recommendations. And if possible, get immunized against the swine flu beforehand.

Mexico's drug war is entering its fourth year. Its H1N1 flu outbreak began with dozens of deaths and global headlines last spring. This leaves travelers with at least two reasons to study up before booking that Mexico trip. But it doesn't necessarily mean to stay home. Mexico's drug-war death toll reached more than 9,900 between January 2007 and early October of this year, by the count of the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute. Many of the deaths have occurred near the U.S. border and far from the resorts and cities that draw thousands of Americans every year.

Flu information. For flu information from the World Health Organization, check the weekly updates on the organization's website: www.who.int/csr. To get travel guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control, wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/novel-h1n1-flu.aspx.

Robert Reid, who has contributed to Lonely Planet's Mexico volumes and serves as the New York-based U.S. travel editor for the guidebook publisher, likes to remind people that Mexico is about the size of France, Spain, Germany and Italy--combined. Before you let trouble in one corner of the country affect your travel to another corner, he said, "Imagine a shootout in Sicily forcing a canceled vacation in Germany." Also, as Mexican officials are quick to note, most drug war victims so far have been active partisans--that is, drug-traffickers or law enforcement officials.

Charles Pope, interim director of the Trans-Border Institute, visits Tijuana and Mexicali up to four times a month, traveling just as he did in the years before President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug-traffickers in 2006. Pope dines out, drives at night and said he wouldn't hesitate to go to a baseball game, a lucha libre (professional wrestling match) or an event at the Tijuana Cultural Center. Still, there has been plenty of trouble in Mexico, and it continues. On October 16, authorities said they found nine mutilated bodies in Tlapehuala, a town in the state of Guerrero, and three bodies in Acapulco, each accompanied by a threatening note signed "the boss of bosses."

Since August 20, the U.S. State Department has urged Americans to delay unnecessary travel to parts of the states of Michoacan (capital: Morelia) and Chihuahua (which includes the cities of Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez on the Texas border).

Mexican authorities say that in the first half of 2009, more than 1,000 killings took place in Ciudad Juarez. Though U.S. citizens have been killed in Mexico, apparently including four whose bodies were discovered in Tijuana in May, those deaths make up a small fraction of those who have died in the drug-related violence.

If you set flu aside, said Edward Hasbrouck, author of "The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World," the biggest danger for a law-abiding traveler is probably "the same as the big danger in the U.S. --road crashes. Almost everything else is negligible by comparison." But Hasbrouk said, "You have to evaluate not only 'is it safe?' but also, 'Will I be so frightened that I won't enjoy the trip?' For details for the geography of Mexico's troubles, check the U.S. Department's website, especially the Mexico security travel alert, at www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html. For articles, images, maps and video on the drug war's effect on Baja California and throughout Mexico, check the Los Angeles Times "Mexico Under Siege" project. The website: www.latimes.com/mexicoundersiege.

Wherever you go to Mexico, the U.S. State Department recommends you stay on the beaten path, carry a working cell telephone, tell others where you are going and register to receive State Department e-mail notifications at travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs/ui/.

On the flu front, Mexico drew worldwide attention in April and May 2009 when H1N1 was blamed for dozens of deaths. In the Offices of Passport Health Los Angeles, a travel medicine and immunization clinic, executive director Rayann Aziz recalls the concerned that erupted then but lately, the U.S. and Mexico are in the same position--jointly leading the world in cases. So Aziz advice for anybody traveling to Mexico is identical to her advice for those staying home: Get a 2009 H1N1 vaccination, especially if you are in a high-priority group which includes pregnant women; people who live with or care for children up to 6 months old; healthcare and emergency medical services workers; those 6 months to 24 years old; and anyone 25 to 64 with a chronic health disorder or compromised immune system.

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WILDLIFE ADVISORY SERVICES
as presented by Mexico Advisory Services

As a preferred customer, you can enjoy during the 2010/2011 season, the best duck and dove hunting in Mexico as well as significant discounts in the cities of Mexicali, Baja California, Navojoa, Sonora and Culiacan, Sinaloa where we have business associates and friends who will treat you fairly, seriously attempt to please you in every way and also feel confident that every segment of the hunt has been attractively priced.

Additionally, you might notice the important savings you will receive from the Araiza Hotel in Mexicali (www.araizamexicalihotel) located on hotel row, where you will find the wonderful hospitality of a first-class hotel with rates that will pleasantly surprise you; as well as reliable information about the avail-ability of shells from a new dealer in Mexicali. Rolando will provide additional information about this. We are asking you to please give us the opportunity to create, develop and submit to you a Hunting in Mexico and Related Services package, that we hope you will approve if it makes you feel, as we expect, that there is someone on your side who is basically interested in offering you the best deal possible. There will be absolutely no charge, hassle or problem if you decide that our offer is not what you want. Thank you!

Rolando E. Torres
WILDLIFE ADVISORY SERVICES
213 385-9311, CELL 213 210-6761
EMAIL: wildlifead@aol.com
WEBSITE: www.mexicoadvisoryservices.com

 

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Dear Hunter:

Thank you for allowing Wildlife Advisory Services to handle on your behalf the documents you need in order to hunt in Mexico with your own shotguns. However, we need to return to the military Authority in Tijuana, Mexico, the 2009-2010 Gun Permit that you still have in your possession, so please return this document to us as soon as possible.

We certainly dont mean to intrude but if there is any assistance we can provide to you during the off-season, we are at your disposal and if any of your friends would like to join you in your hunts, all we need are their names and addresses and we'll take excellent care of them.

If you have plans to replace one or both of your shotguns, please request by email our 2010-2011 General Declaration form at no charge.

If you have questions regarding any of this information, please call or email Rolando at your convenience. Telephone 213 385-9311. Thank you!

In the meantime, we are pleased to acknowledge receipt and extend our gratitude to the hunters who have already mailed back to us their expired Gun Permits for the 2009-2010 season.

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Looking ahead: it's already time to coordinate schedules with partners, select travel dates, make airline reservations for the dates you want at the best rates. And please allow Rolando to work out a deal on your behalf with an outfitter in Mexico for an unforgettable waterfowl hunt. He can also help you with the processing of the documents you need in order to hunt in Mexico with our own shotguns, or if you prefer, arrange for the rental of the best shotguns in the outfitter's arsenal.

The great Sinaloa Marsh has some of the best wing shooting in the world. Estimated at 3 million, the annual population of birds includes and abundance of pintails, cinnamon teals, blue and green-winged teals, pichiguilas, canvasbacks, gadwalls and widgeons. The 2010-2011 waterfowl season in Sinaloa will probably open on October 29 (this date is not yet official) and will most likely close in early March 2011. Hunters who have been there in past seasons have fully enjoyed the special experience that it offers. Quite frankly, the sheer number of birds is phenomenal.

213 385-9311, Cell 213 210-6761, Nextel: 124*1540*51. Website: www.mexicoadvisoryservices.com. and e-mail: wildlifead@aol.com.

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Epigraph

We must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all its noble qualities, with sympathy which he feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements of the solar system, with all its exalted powers, man still bears in his body frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origins.

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

The Game Birds and Mammals

Foreword
(Excerpted from the book Wildlife of Mexico by A. Starker Leopold)

Because of its varied topography and its situation at the juncture of the Nearctic and Neotropical zones, Mexico is endowed with a rich and varied fauna. Since the initial faunistic Studies by Francisco Hernandez, doctor at the court of King Philip II of Spain, who traveled extensively in Mexico in the period 1570 to 1577, the natural history of the country has continued to interest naturalists.

Contributions to our knowledge of the Mexican fauna have been made over the years by various expeditions and field investigations. Some of the more important of these were the royal expedition sent by the Spanish Crown at the end of the 18th Century under the command of Martin Sesse; the studies of the “Scientific Mission to Mexico” conducted during the transitory reign of the Emperor Maximilian, the results of which are presented in various volumes; the compilation of materials of great interest that served as a basis for the Biología Centrali-Americana; and extensive collection of birds and mammals assembled by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey. These and countless lesser undertakings have laid the foundation of knowledge of Mexican Wildlife. Until now, however, there has been no investigation of adequate scope focused specifically on the game animals of Mexico and their importance in that country. There have been efforts in this direction, the first of which was a book by Don Pedro Blazquez, published in 1869 under the title El Cazador Mexicano, an interesting work deserving of praise in its time but now only a bibliographic curiosity.

Early in the present century two authors residing in central Mexico in the state of San Luis Potosí, Sres. Carlos Lopez and Carlo M. Lopez (who were not related), published their classic volume, Caza Mexicana. This work, carefully edited and well illustrated gives evidence of the authors’ profound understanding of the game animals but suffers nevertheless because of their lack of biological training. Later, the senior author, Carlos Lopez, became associated with the Direccion de Estudios Biologicos, Departamento de Taxidermia, and in this position-–where I had the pleasure of knowing him well–-he acquired much zoological knowledge that would have been of great help to him had he possessed it while he was preparing the book.

In 1938 Arturo Imaz Baume published his Cacería, which merited a second edition in 1949. Although an elegant and interesting treatise on hunting, it is not a contribution to zoological or ecological literature nor did the author intended it as such.

The only book about Mexican hunting and Mexican game that has been written with a biological slant is El Cazador y la vida silvestre, by Morelos Herrejón, published in 1952. In that volume is clearly manifest the zoological background of the author, who is Professor of Zoology in the Escuela Normal Superior, and who has been a lifelong hunter. But there is still urgent need for a complete treatise on our game animals, such as is presented here by A. Starker Leopold. The author, a scholar of unquestioned competence in the field of zoology, has dedicated more than twelve years to the preparation of this work, including extensive periods of field investigation in all parts of Mexico.

To say that the present book is the “best” in its class is an understatement. Indeed, it is the “first” in which an author has been able to combine an adequate biological background with thorough, firsthand investigation of wildlife problems as they exist in the field. In effect, this volume fills a real vacuum that has existed in the literature of Mexican wildlife.

The hunting of wild game has always been an important activity in Mexico and wildlife, if properly conserved and managed, can be further developed into a productive future resource. There has been lacking, however, an authoritative summary or guide to the problems of wildlife management in Mexico, to the needs of future wildlife research, and to the broad field of wildlife education.

In 1934 it was privilege to establish in the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura at Chapingo, a course in “Wildlife Zoology.” It was hoped that this orientation course, designed specifically for the inclusion in the forestry curriculum, would interest future foresters in wildlife problems, at least to the point that they might help gather data and specimens and perhaps consider wildlife needs in their professional practice. There was the possibility, too, of developing a few wildlife specialists. But this course was dropped from the curriculum and for many years now the foresters in Mexico have had no chance to become oriented in wildlife biology. The Escuela Nacional de Agricultura offers an interesting and valuable course in “Wildlife Administration,” but this lacks the biological approach necessary as a foundation for wildlife management. Perhaps the present book, when it becomes available in Spanish, will make the resumption of university training in wildlife biology easier.

The parts of this volumen that treat of the individual species of game mammals and game birds are excellent; these accounts will serve far into the future as an authoritative reference work. The first part, in which Leopold discusses the fundamentals of game management is in my judgment equally well done.

The author makes continued reference to the dynamic and ever-changing character of ecologic problems, a point of view that can scarcely be overemphasized. He expresses this idea clearly in the paragraph of chapter 1 which states: “But landscapes are not stable entities. A forest can be cleared and planted to corn so that it no longer is habitat for deer but becomes a home for doves, quail and rabbits. The cornfield in turn can erode into a series of raw gullies that support no animals at all. The impact of human activity upon the land may substantially alter the native animal life.”

We are accustomed to thinking of forest protection chiefly in terms of regulating excessive logging, as though this were the only or the principal cause of forest destruction. Yet the clearing of trees and brush from the land to make it suitable for farming, or the inadvertent clearing by burning or overgrazing, may be even more significant

ENRIQUE BETRAN

Mexico, D. F.
Summer of 1957