In May of this year, the Supreme Court sided with big polluters in its decision in Sackett v. EPA, rolling back decades of protections for our waterways under the Clean Water Act. At issue in the Sackett case is the definition of waters of the United States (WOTUS), or those protected under the Clean Water … Action Alert: Speak up for New Mexico’s waters!
By Will Ribbans, Wilderness Stewardship & Outreach Manager As I write this, we are nearing the halfway point in our USFS Wilderness Ranger Season. Currently, the Rangers are gearing up to lead a group of 8 volunteers into the Pecos Wilderness to work on installing new signage at Lake Katherine and Lake Stewart while also … Wilderness Ranger Season 2023: Building Capacity for Stewardship in New Mexico’s Wilderness Areas
Conservation Groups to federal court: Protect the Florida Mountains in New Mexico from commercial mining New Mexico federal court hears arguments in lawsuit challenging BLM’s approval of proposed dolomite mine in Luna County FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 13, 2023 Contacts: Samantha Ruscavage-Barz, WildEarth Guardians, 505-401-4180, sruscavagebarz@wildearthguardians.org Wes Light, Friends of the Floridas, gadlight.2@gmail.com Sally … Conservation Groups to federal court: Protect the Florida Mountains in New Mexico from commercial mining
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2023 Contact: Keegan King, Native Land Institute, keegan@native-lands.org, 505-910-0712 Paul Reed, Archaeology Southwest, preed@archaeologysouthwest.org, 505-486-4107 Sally Paez, New Mexico Wild, sally@nmwild.org, 505-350-0664 Ellen Montgomery, Environment New Mexico, lmontgomery@environmentnewmexico.org, 720-583-4024 Emily Wolf, National Parks Conservation Association, ewolf@npca.org, 505-423-3550 Michael Casaus, The Wilderness Society, michael_casaus@tws.org, 505-417-5288 New Mexico Communities Strongly Oppose Legislation … New Mexico Communities Strongly Oppose Legislation to Nullify Chaco Protections, Affirm Support for Measures Protecting Greater Chaco from Oil and Gas Drilling
Written by Garrett VeneKlasen, Northern Conservation Director for New Mexico Wild When I first read a Xerces Society report about the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service plan to blanket almost 40 square miles in and around the Rio Chama Wilderness Study Area with a highly toxic and possibly carcinogenic pesticide … We stopped the spraying — now, to fix the process
