NSP Service
The Navajo Sheep Project has also been about service, to those who the Navaho-Churro sheep has a purpose. The NSP has outreaching to many people within the Four corner states which include, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Service via outreach education, return and re-deployment of seedstock to the Dine' and the Hispanic cultures was an important hands-on duty of the Navajo Sheep Project. |
 | | This initial 1982 delivery and deployment was the largest return of the churro to the Deni', and many other were to come. |
 | | First Churro returned by the NSP to the Navajo Nation Tribe at the Tribal Zoo, Window Rock,AZ, 1983 |
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 | | NSP outreach program is about hands-on with the sheep there. |
 | | Grading wool is some of the field work the NSP has done. |
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 | | Not all is field work. NSP outreach program is also educational with in room classes. |
 | | Preparing churro wool for market or spinning use by skirting. |
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| 97 USDA SARE Project |
 | | The NSP initiated with the 1993-97 USDA SARE Project, the return of Navajo flocks to grazing on the sacred peak of the North, Mt. Hesperus after 135 years of non-permitted use. |
 | | 1995 deployment was to initiate a new form of protecting flocks, especially Navajo-Churros on the reservation from predation losses. |
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