New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

by Nathan Newcomer
Associate Director
From New Mexico Wild! Summer 2010 — the Newsletter of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
If there is one lesson we have learned in the course of our wilderness work, it is that passing legislation to permanently protect our state’s wildest public lands can take years, sometimes, even decades. This isn’t to say [...]

A copy of the White House press release follows.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 31, 2010
Presidential Proclamation–National Wilderness Month
A PROCLAMATION
For centuries, the American spirit of exploration and discovery has led us to experience the majesty of our Nation’s wilderness.  From raging rivers to serene prairies, from mountain peaks slicing the skyline [...]

by Claire Long Cote
NeoRio is an annual event celebrating art, nature, culture, and community at Wild Rivers Recreation Area near Questa, New Mexico. Hosted by the Bureau of Land Management’s Taos Field Office, NeoRio is organized by the environmental arts initiative LEAP (Land, Experience and Art of Place), in collaboration with John Wenger of Wild [...]

Coming soon to grocery stores, cafes, libraries, bookshops, and mailboxes near you… 
New Mexico Wild! Summer 2010
Volume XII, No. II of the Newsletter of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
Has arrived!
Our newsletters are available online.

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The Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces is joining forces with the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance to campaign in support of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act.
This partnership is based on the solid fact: “Wilderness Helps Communities Prosper.”
For a look into the creative fruits of our relationship with the Hispano Chamber of Commerce and [...]

BLM has published an online “NEPA Web Guide,” an interactive companion to their National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Handbook.
The Web Guide may be a useful tool for conservationists of all walks, whether as a handy reference for pros reviewing BLM NEPA documents or for basic information about NEPA concepts.
The Web Guide is online at: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/planning/news/webguide.html

Bear Kill Limit May Rise 80%
Public input is sought on changing rules for hunting seasons
From the Albuquerque Journal, August 24 2010
By Rosalie Rayburn
Journal Staff Writer

    Whether the states black bears are nuisances that can be or should be hunted in greater numbers is a question that will be taken up by the state Game [...]

Trapping Ban Gives Lobos Breathing Room
Editorial from the Albuquerque Journal
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
New Mexico’s few remaining Mexican gray wolves are in a battle for their lives, and Gov. Bill Richardson is granting them a partial truce.
Richardson has ordered the state Department of Game and Fish to prohibit trapping for six months on the New Mexico [...]

FIRST ANNUAL NMWA WILDERNESS HAIKU CONTEST
Wilderness provides many of us with awe-inspiring or transformational experiences, something pertaining to any of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling- hearing a bird’s song or seeing shadow play in the mountains.
In light of this, NMWA is offering its First Annual Wilderness Haiku Contest.
The top three winners [...]

Burro Basin is shown Wednesday during a New Mexico Wilderness Alliance flyover of some roadless areas of the Carson National Forest and Pecos Wilderness in the Santa Fe National Forest. The flight was conducted to bring awareness to the landscapes in Northern New Mexico that are vying for further protection. – Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New [...]