BY MARK MITCHELL / CHAIRMAN, ALL PUEBLO COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS; FORMER GOVERNOR, TESUQUE PUEBLO The Greater Chaco Region is a sacred landscape unlike any other, and our efforts to preserve it have spanned generations. Now, the Interior Department (DOI) is contemplating a proposal to withdraw federal lands within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park … It’s time to finally protect Chaco Canyon
By Richard Rubin, Taos News The importance of our American wilderness areas has evolved despite many controversies and deserves enhanced attention now on the one hundredth anniversary of establishing the Gila Wilderness. This, first, is a New Mexico story. It goes beyond politics to be rightly regarded a century later as powerful enhancement of the … Honoring the Gila wilderness
By Hannah Grover, The New Mexico Political Report The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services finalized its Mexican Wolf rule that removes the cap on the population size within the experimental range and focuses on increasing genetic diversity by limiting when wolves can be killed and through releases of captive wolves into the wild using methods like … Fish and Wildlife Service faces criticism over finalized Mexican wolf rule
By Alicia Edwards – Silver City Daily Press Last month, in the heart of National Rivers Month, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining held a hearing on the M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act, S. 3129. As someone with a travel … National Rivers Month hearing should lead to Wild and Scenic protection for our Gila River
