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The skeletal remains were found in the Castner Range, Hondo Pass area.

Investigators determined the remains were of a 30- to 40-year-old Hispanic or Latino man who likely was last seen or heard from between 2017 and 2019, according to Army Criminal Investigation Division.

A $1,000 reward is being offered by the U.S. Army for information leading to the identification of human remains found on Fort Bliss.

Biden administration should lead inclusive efforts to protect public lands into the future

© Getty For more than a century, conservationists fought to protect our wide-open American spaces from the degradation of humanity. This movement established what many called America’s Best Idea, but also reproduced many of the inequalities we see so clearly in so many of our institutions — our federally protected lands, waters, and oceans have for too long been overwhelmingly inaccessible, stripped of their cultural significance to indigenous people, and often unwelcoming to people of col...

7 heritage sites with deep cultural and historical roots to Latinos are in need of preservation, group says Shutterstock By Nicole Chavez, CNN A historic neighborhood threatened by plans for a sports arena, a bodega that became a hub for Dominicans in Rhode Island and a park where Mexican American students gathered to call for equitable access to education. Those locations are among the seven Latino heritage sites that preservation scholars say are in need of protection due to their deep cultur...

Chepa’s Park in Santa Ana’s Logan neighborhood recommended for historic status Roxana Kopetman © Provided by Orange County Register Chepa’s Park in Santa Ana, CA, seen here on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, was recommended by the D.C.-based Hispanic Access Foundation to be recognized as a historic site. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) Chepa’s Park, a tiny refuge in one of Santa Ana’s oldest Mexican American neighborhoods, drew some old timers on a r...

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar introduced legislation Thursday to make Castner Range a national monument. The El Paso Democrat said the Castner Range National Monument Act would make the 7,081-acre area in Northeast El Paso, which formerly was used by Fort Bliss, a national monument “to conserve and protect the ecological cultural, historical, natural integrity of the land.”  “Castner Range is the crown jewel of West Texas and a source of great pride for El Pasoans,” Escobar said in ...

Escobar wants ‘crown jewel’ Castner Range named national monument EL PASO, Texas -- Former El Paso Congressman Beto ORourke called the the Castner Range of the Franklin Mountains "7,000 acres of rugged wilderness in an urban setting." Now current Congresswoman Veronica Escobar is following in her predecessors footsteps with a legislative effort announced at a news conference on Friday to get the Castner Range named a national monument and protect it from development. Its a designation ORour...