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Horse Riding Still an Upper Valley Thing.
With the devastation to the Upper Valley caused by the City of El Paso and its planning department it is a wonder that you can see anybody riding horseback anymore.
On a sunny one minute cloudy the next type of day we found one dedicated horseperson, Laurie, was not to be dettered. Laurie was riding her beautiful horse around a lot that had recently had its weeds disked under to the relief of the neighbors.
She wonders too... "Where are the horse trails?" Where are they indeed? Even the large lots that were recently developed along Morril Road near Borderland Road there are no horse trails.
There was no planning for horses or the threatened wildlife that is being displaced more and more by the poor urban planning that has been wroght upon the valley by developers and their hencemen at City Hall. The larger tracts that have been flooded with high-density housing much like a housing development for the poor, cut off huge areas of the valley to anything on four legs... er... make that four and two... The herons are becoming more and more rare.
 Still the horses are still able to traverse the valley along the water canal roads and ditch roads... but, too often they are not connected and the horses must endanger themselves and their riders by going out on a street with increasing traffic.
With so much attention paid to the "beatification" of downtown El Paso one wonders what makes the City can even make that a reality when their track record on beauty is so dismal in the Upper Valley. The Upper Valley was a fine beautiful resource and asset to the whole community before the City of El Paso sunk their hooks into it.
(Photos: Brax - Valley Publishing Company)
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