The boots on Buck Jackson Road • Source New Mexico

The boots on Buck Jackson Road • Source New Mexico

The boot fence, which runs through Eddy County. David Cox/Searchlight New Mexico Posted inFeatured At first, in the haze, they look like birds, perched on fence posts along the road. But they don’t shift or take flight, and there’s one on every post for as far as I can see. They are upside-down boots. “I’m so grateful to the people who get up every day and do the work in the grueling and the awful conditions,” says Jozee Zuñiga, an environmenta…