“Green” Ranching

Today, Sid Goodloe has a lush vista from his two-story ranch house. He can see for miles, looking at low hills and pine trees and thick grassland (to say nothing of the 10,000-foot mountains in the background), but that’s sure not what greeted him when he found this hunk of New Mexico in 1956. “The land was so abused; it was cheap, and I didn’t have any money,” he remembers. Like so many before him, he’d “gone West” seeking a place to establish the ranch he knew he wanted since