..., agriculture, and livestock grazing, were established in the middle Rio Puerco valley, northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Within a decade, overgrazing in the larger Rio Puerco watershed initiated a process of erosion and entrenchment of the Rio Puerco that eventually led to the abandonment of three...

...-families (pobladores) who formally petitioned for a grant. Most distinctively, the ejido rested on a commu? nal basis of ownership. Individual family households were set on long lots along a river (the Rio Grande, Chama, Rio Puerco, or Pecos) or tributary for 6. MalcolmEbright,LandGrantsandLawsuitsin...