Month: December 2019

Since its implementation in 1964, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has supported conservation projects in all 33 New Mexico counties. National forests, national parks and monuments, wildlife refuges, open spaces, city parks, and more have received more than $300 million of LWCF money, which has helped to preserve and restore some of New … The Gila National Forest and the Land and Water Conservation Fund: Protecting a Gem in Southwest New Mexico

LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND BENEFICIARY The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is America’s most important program to conserve irreplaceable lands and improve outdoor recreation opportunities throughout the nation. The program works in partnership with federal, state and local efforts to protect land in our national parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests, national trails, … Chaco Culture National Historic Park

We are six months into a one-year ban on oil and gas operations near the national park By Paul Reed, Archaeology Southwest The clock is ticking. It has been almost exactly six months since Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt agreed to halt  oil and gas lease sales within a ten-mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco … Time Running out to Protect Chaco