Belen and Tome, N. Mex. April 11, 1979 he moved to a motel in Belen, and I spent the afternoon exploring the red hunting grounds around Tome where Ned and Ward Shepard had a lease on a small duck pond with an adobe house nearby. Found a road that paralleled the acequia skirting the base of Tome hill on the west. This is precisely where he did our quail hunting. At that time the foothill area was severely overgrazed and Ned built little exclusion fences around "Chamisa bushes" (Atriplex canescens) to restore spots of cover - the genesis of his ideas about game management! Now it would appear that grazing is much reduced, for the Atriplex thickets at the base of the hill are in fine shape for quail occupancy. I didn't go out searching for scaled quail but I am sure they are there. The old duck pond is gone and the square field where it was situated now supports a healthy stand of alfalfa. In fact nearly all of the flat land hereabouts is in alfalfa or other crops, irrigated from the acequia at its upper edge. There are quite a few occupied homes now along the foothills bordering the acequia, so I couldn't locate the old adobe house that we rented. If her it's totally been torn down, or weathered away in the ensuing half-century. That night we had a family reunion (17 cousins and in-laws) at Uncle Eduardo's old home in Las Lunas, now run as a very fancy steak-and-lobster restaurant. It's walls are heavily decorated with photos of Alvarez, Osteros and Bergerez. Name of the restaurant - "Luna Mansion".