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Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. Raymond, right, and Air Force astronaut Col. Nick Hague speak with third grade students from Desoto Intermediate School in Adel, Iowa, during a virtual call at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., Dec. 16, 2020. The call was part of “DeSTEMber” events, an initiative to engage children in science, technology, engineering and math. (U.S. Air Force photo by Eric Dietrich)DECEMBER 31, 2020 – As a tech-heavy, digital service, the U.S. Space Force relies on Guardians with academic backgrounds in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to build and fortify its foundation.
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The mayordomo of Nambe Narciso Quintana walks over a gate on the acequia in April. The New Mexico Acequia Association estimates that 640 small-scale irrigation systems exist throughout the state. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
ALCALDE – Culture and community are as much a part of the centuries-old traditional irrigation systems that some New Mexicans rely on as hydrology, according to researchers at the state’s two largest universities and Sandia National Laboratories.
They made public their findings earlier this month. Funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the decadelong effort centered on three acequia systems in northern New Mexico – El Rito, Rio Hondo and Alcalde.
The horrifying plague of dead birds in the southwestern US in late summer was caused by starvation, according to a new government report.
Hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions of birds, died in Arizona and nearby states in August through early September.
Many scientists blamed the devastating wildfires raging in the West at the time, but lab results from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish rule out smoke poisoning.
The blazes could have caused the birds to migrate early or alter their migratory patterns and deplete their energy reserves early.
And, according to biologists with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, a surprise coldsnap in early September also likely added to the death toll.
Eight counties gain population; rural-urban divide deepens
Harold Morgan
Estimates must start somewhere. The trouble is that the further the estimated figure gets from the starting point, the shakier it gets. The U.S. Census Bureau works very hard to deal with this problem so as to produce the best possible quality figures. We will take them at their word and look the 2019 county population numbers.
New Mexico’s estimated population for July 1, 2020, was 2,106,139. That’s an increase of three-tenths of one percent from 2,099,637 in 2019 and up 1.6% or 32,277 from 2010. “Hardly at all” seems the best description of the one-year population growth. The 2020 estimates for states appeared Dec. 22.