This year, we celebrate the centennial of the Gila Wilderness—the 100th anniversary of its initial administrative designation by the U.S. Forest Service. In the early 1900s, forester and conservationist Aldo Leopold was employed by the Forest Service and worked in the Southwest. It was a time of great change for the American landscape, when, to … Celebrating the Gila Wilderness Centennial
By Devon Naples The Wilderness Act limits access to Wilderness areas to feet and hooves only. Graciously, no wheels are allowed. If you’ve ever explored the rugged beauty of New Mexico’s backcountry on horseback, you may have the Back Country Horsemen of New Mexico (BCHNM) to thank for those clear trails beneath your steed’s hooves. … Saddle Up for Wilderness
New Mexico Wild has submitted comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment (RMPA/EA) for the Río Grande del Norte National Monument (RGDN) on behalf of a coalition comprised of several environmental organizations. While we support the BLM’s efforts to develop a Monument-specific management plan that prioritizes … New Mexico Wild submits comments on Río Grande del Norte National Monument Resource Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment
By Bjorn Fredrickson, New Mexico Wild Conservation Director My father is a Ph.D. physicist who regaled me with stories growing up about the brilliant minds that worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and were integral to expanding the boundaries of science and human knowledge — luminaries such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman … Adapt transmission lines for LANL’s energy needs
By Tricia Snyder, New Mexico Wild Rivers and Waters Program Director Nearly every day I take my dog, Mardy, for a stroll in the Bosque—the Spanish word for a riparian forest and commonly used to refer to the vegetation that surrounds the Rio Grande near Albuquerque. The unbridled joy she experiences as we weave our … New Mexico’s Waters One Year After Sackett
New Mexico’s Waters One Year Post-Sackett New Mexico is making progress but still much more to do to protect waterways Media contact: Tricia Snyder, 575-636-0625, tricia@nmwild.org Mark Allison, 505-239-0906, mark@nmwild.org Albuquerque, NM (May 24, 2024) – Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. EPA, the latest in a … New Mexico’s Waters One Year Post-Sackett
Media Contact: Bjorn Fredrickson, New Mexico Wild, bjorn@nmwild.org, (206) 372-5608 Taos, NM (May 22, 2024) – A proposal to aerially apply pesticides to kill native grasshoppers on federal public lands in the Rio Chama Watershed has sparked significant public outcry for the second year in a row. In January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal … Public Outcry Over Proposed Aerial Pesticide Use in Rio Chama Watershed
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