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  • WILDLIFE SURVEYOR PLEADS INNOCENT TO ARSON CHARGE

    07/02/2002 4:54:28 PM PDT · by madfly · 13 replies · 315+ views
    The Alamogordo Daily News ^ | July 1, 2002 | By RICHARD BENKE
    <p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A wildlife surveyor for the Mescalero Apache Tribe pleaded innocent Friday to setting a fire on an arson-plagued reservation parched by drought and torn by political infighting.</p> <p>Paul James Valdez, 27, of Tularosa, who worked for the tribe helping take the census of federally protected Mexican spotted owls, was arrested Wednesday on charges of setting the half-acre Lower Cooley Fire on June 2.</p>