Land and Water Conservation Fund: Protecting a Wild Rio Grande del Norte
Years of grassroots advocacy by local stakeholders – including Taos Pueblo leadership, land grant heirs, acequia parciantes and mayordomos, local businesses, elected officials, grazing permittees and others – in northern New Mexico paid off in May 2013 when President Barack Obama used his authority under the Antiquities Act to establish the Rio Grande del Norte … Land and Water Conservation Fund: Protecting a Wild Rio Grande del Norte