Rio Bosque News Today

Overlooking the Roberto Bustamante treatment plant, with the border wall and Rio Grande close by, workers inspect bar screens that filter what shouldn’t be entering the municipal wastewater system.

Overlooking the Roberto Bustamante treatment plant, with the border wall and Rio Grande close by, workers inspect bar screens that filter what shouldn’t be entering the municipal wastewater system.

Overlooking the Roberto Bustamante treatment plant, with the border wall and Rio Grande close by, workers inspect bar screens that filter what shouldn’t be entering the municipal wastewater system.

Ready for the weekend? Here are some ideas for keeping the family busy, from park events to rowdy roller derby.

A small swath of the valley is restored to resemble when the Rio Grande flourished, but as drought changes the land, it’ll take more work — and water.

Rio Bosque Park was named not for stands of tall cottonwoods, willows, mesquite or any of the native plants. Instead, it was named for the dense tangle of invasive saltcedar obscuring an old bend in the Rio Grande when the land was given to El Paso by the federal government in the 1970s.

Experiencing the Bosque is a project integrating community organizing, art-making, and environmental stewardship through the activity of creating performances together.

Several outdoor recreations are abound in El Paso and Southern New Mexico. Heres a list of places and organizations to help you get started.

Several outdoor recreations are abound in El Paso and Southern New Mexico. Heres a list of places and organizations to help you get started.

An El Paso man shared depressing images of Rio Bosque Park on the El Paso Fishing Facebook group recently. The images showed dead fish laying all around Rio Bosque.