A Big Win For Clean Water This legislative session, $7 million was appropriated to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to set up a surface
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Category: Press Releases
Open Space Brewing and New Mexico Wild Beer Release Backs Wild and Scenic Designation for Gila River
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 9, 2024 Media Contacts:Luke Koenig, New Mexico Wild, luke@nmwild.org, 443-676-3200 Alexa Tubbs, Open Space Brewing, openspacebrewing@gmail.com, 856-986-5370 Click here for photos from the December 19th
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New Mexico Conservation Groups Praise State’s Decision to Extend Moratorium on Oil and Gas Leasing around Chaco Canyon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2023 Contacts: Mark Allison, New Mexico Wild, (505) 239-0906, mark@nmwild.org Ellen Montgomery, Environment New Mexico, (720) 583-4024, lmontgomery@environmentnewmexico.org Paul F.
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Monitoring reveals hundreds of livestock trespassing in Valles Caldera National Preserve
For Immediate Release: November 16, 2023 Media Contacts: Madeleine Carey, WildEarth Guardians, (505) 417-5893, mcarey@wildearthguardians.org Cyndi Tuell, Western Watersheds Project, (520) 272-2454, cyndi@westernwatersheds.org Bjorn Fredrickson,
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Wildlife advocates urge agencies to let roaming wolf “Asha” go where she needs
For immediate release: November 2, 2023 Media contacts: Chris Smith, WildEarth Guardians, 505-395-6177 csmith@wildearthguardians.org Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity, 575-313-7017 michaelr@biologicaldiversity.org Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project,
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Conservation Groups to federal court: Protect the Florida Mountains in New Mexico from commercial mining
Conservation Groups to federal court: Protect the Florida Mountains in New Mexico from commercial mining New Mexico federal court hears arguments in lawsuit challenging BLM’s
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New Mexico Communities Strongly Oppose Legislation to Nullify Chaco Protections, Affirm Support for Measures Protecting Greater Chaco from Oil and Gas Drilling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2023 Contact: Keegan King, Native Land Institute, keegan@native-lands.org, 505-910-0712 Paul Reed, Archaeology Southwest, preed@archaeologysouthwest.org, 505-486-4107 Sally Paez, New Mexico Wild,
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New Mexico Wild Celebrates BLM Decision To Halt Aerial Spraying of Toxic Insecticides Over Rio Chama Watershed
New Mexico Wild Celebrates BLM Decision To Halt Aerial Spraying of Toxic Insecticides Over Rio Chama Watershed Media Contact: Bjorn Fredrickson, New Mexico Wild, bjorn@nmwild.org,
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Asha, wandering Mexican wolf captured near Taos last winter, returned to wild
For immediate release: June 14, 2023 MEDIA CONTACTS: Cyndi Tuell, Western Watersheds Project, (520) 272-2454; cyndi@westernwatersheds.org Emily Renn, Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project, (928) 202-1325; emily@gcwolfrecovery.org Michael
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New Mexico Communities and Environmental Groups Applaud Biden Administration for Protecting Lands Surrounding Chaco Canyon From Oil and Gas Drilling, Await Permanent and Broader Protections for Landscape
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2023 Contact: Keegan King, Native Land Institute, keegan@native-lands.org, 505-910-0712 Paul Reed, Archaeology Southwest, preed@archaeologysouthwest.org, 505-486-4107 Sally Paez, New Mexico Wild,
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