BLM's new rules, mission change significant for New Mexico
Advocates say the agency's new push to balance resource extraction with conservation is a watershed moment.
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Advocates say the agency's new push to balance resource extraction with conservation is a watershed moment.
Comexico LLC wants to revive hard-rock mining in the Pecos watershed and expand it to more than 4,000 acres.
"This is a historic coalition," Acequia Commission Chairman Ralph Vigil told attendees at the town hall event. "Acequia leaders, traditional community members, tribal members — because we care about our
‘Asha,’ a well-known Mexican gray wolf named after schoolchildren, has now been returned to the wild in Arizona after its controversial capture back in January. The release has reignited debates among environmentalists, conservationists, and geneticists about where these wolves are allowed to roam.
Center for Biological Diversity: PHOENIX— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it returned Asha, a well-known Mexican gray wolf, to the wilds of Arizona. She was captured last January for wandering outside of an arbitrary management zone and heading north into the southern Rocky Mountains of New Mexico. Her journey last winter broke new ground and sent her east of Interstate 25, across Interstate 40, and up near Taos.