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Fast Facts
• The Torstenson Wildlife Center's (TWC) mission is to implement sound conservation and management on the TWC to benefit wild elk, other wildlife, and plant communities while promoting hunting, our hunting heritage and conservation education.
• Vision Statement: The Torstenson Wildlife Center will be managed, in perpetuity, to protect the ecologically significant values of the property. In addition we envision a place where wildlife and plants thrive and where people, youth and adults, experience, learn and participate in wildlife management, land stewardship, hunting and our hunting heritage.
• Access to the ranch is regulated, and needs to be approved by and coordinated with the TWC's ranch manager or director of business operations.
• TWC operates a fee-based hunting operation on the ranch. Some cow elk and mountain lion hunts are sold through Elk Foundation events. Periodic raffles and drawings provide opportunities for foundation members and youth to hunt on the TWC. In addition, bull elk hunts are used occasionally in our membership promotions and giveaways.
• Elk Foundation Board of Directors, TWC Board of Directors, and Elk Foundation and TWC staff are prohibited from hunting on the ranch.
• TWC leases farm and grazing lands to a farmer/rancher who held leases when Bob Torstenson purchased the ranch in 2000.
• Elevation ranges from 7,000 to 8,800 feet. Precipitation averages 11 to 13 inches annually. About 900 acres of cultivated acres are irrigated via groundwater wells.
• New Mexico State Highway 60 crosses the southern end of the ranch.
• Bob and Leslie Torstenson acquired the ranch in 2000. Previously, dating back to 1934, the property was owned by Jay Taylor, a renowned Texas oilman, rancher and business leader. The name “Double H” honors his wife’s family, the Herrings of Amarillo, and the oilfield business that Taylor managed from an early age – Halliburton Company. Taylor is an inductee in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
• Historically the TWC was managed for ranching, farming, hunting and other operations.
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