The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is a non-profit 501 C3, grassroots, environmental organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, and continued enjoyment of New Mexico’s wildlands and Wilderness areas. The primary goal of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is to ensure the protection and restoration of all remaining wild lands in New Mexico through administrative designations, federal Wilderness designation, and on-going advocacy.
Albuquerque Journal
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
By Gilbert Apodaca
President, Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces
Early this month our organizations were proud to have sponsored the seminar ‘“Wilderness Economics, Creating Jobs from Protected Lands.” We, along with 150 other attendees, listened to an impressive lineup of speakers discuss many ways Doña Ana County could help create jobs [...]
Conservationist Group Cheers Senate Committee for Approving Measure
The Río Grande del Norte National Conservation Area Establishment Act was approved by the Senate Energy Committee today, sending it to the full Senate for action. The measure, introduced by Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, will protect some 235,980 acres northwest of Taos, New Mexico, as a [...]
Happy Trails and Wilderness Tales
The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance has just released its 2010 Wild Guide.
The NMWA, supported by more than 5,900 members, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to the protection and restoration of wilderness in New Mexico. An important part of the NMWA’s work remains connecting people to wild public lands like Otero Mesa [...]
BYGABRIEL VASQUEZ
The Las Cruces Bulletin
Land and resource management goes hand in hand with economic development, according to a group of panelists who visited from across the West to speak at the “Wilderness Economics” forum Saturday, Dec. 5, at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
More than 150 business persons, members of the community and [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES
EDITORIAL
Published: November 23, 2009
In 2003, Gale Norton, then the secretary of the interior, and Michael Leavitt, then the governor of Utah, struck a deal that removed federal protections from about 2.6 million acres of public land in Utah that the Clinton administration had designated as potential wilderness. At the same time, Ms. [...]
DATE: March 5, 2010
THE PLACE: The Jornada del Muerto Wilderness Study Area is a place apart. Bob Julyan chronicles it in Wilderness Areas of New Mexico, writing, “this WSA features an old lava flow and its associated Cinder Cone. Early Spanish settlers and traders traveled this rugged and isolated region.” The description isn’t inflated. “Jornada [...]
BLM regional oil, gas lease sale smallest in years
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Writer
© 2009 The Associated Press
Oct. 19, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Bureau of Land Management this week is holding the smallest oil and gas lease sale the region has seen in five years after it declined to offer more than 100 parcels [...]
Albuquerque Journal
Friday, November 13, 2009
By Nathan Newcomer
Associate Director, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
“Land of Enchantment” was added to New Mexico’s license plates in 1941, a nickname that beautifully captures the diversity and richness of our state — the richness of our history and many cultures and the incredible diversity of our landscapes and ecosystems.
For decades now, [...]
Now you can download the complete text of the Organ Mountains – Desert Peaks Wilderness Act. You will need Adobe PDF Reader in order to access this file.
Download the file here: Organ Mountains Desert Peaks Wilderness Act
El Paso Times
By David Burge
10/20/2009
EL PASO – The City Council gave moral support Tuesday to a proposal that would protect thousands of acres of wilderness and other scenic areas in Southern New Mexico.
Council members voted 6-0 for a resolution backing a bill introduced last month by New Mexico’s Democratic U.S. senators, Jeff Bingaman and Tom [...]
