Week ending Friday, October 9, 2020


Iceless Winters

Warmer winters brought on by the deepening climate crisis  are bringing more ice-free years to lakes around the Northern Hemisphere, according to a new study. Researchers writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters say that beyond the ecological changes this causes, communities around some of those lakes are suffering because they depend on frozen festivals and winter recreation. The lack of ice also makes the lakes more prone to toxic algal blooms, which could harm fish and make swimming more dangerous. “This isn’t just happening in one lake in the northern United States. It’s happening in thousands of lakes around...

Judge rejects challenge to critical habitat

U. S. District Judge James Browning dismissed a lawsuit Oct. 13 seeking to overturn the critical habitat designation of the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse.

In an article by Robin Silver of the Center for Biological Diversity, published in the Sun Sept. 4, Silver said the center sued the U. S. Forest Service Aug. 27 to challenge its failure to protect streamside meadows in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains from cattle because the areas are critical habitat for the mouse.

Two cattlemen’s associations sought to overturn the designation with a suit in 2018.

Browning rejected the groups’ claim that in its 2016 decision, the...

Sean Wells, a fifth generation Spanish Colonial artist and Day of the Dead artist is bringing her talents to the Gallup Sun with contributions once a month.

Wells, who grew up in Santa Fe, says she never thought of art as a professional career. “I always loved math and art. I saw the struggle of Santa Fe artists, the very successful fine artists and struggling artists, and then there were the Spanish Market artists — for me that was a great source of cultural pride for my family and for myself, but I still didn’t think of it as a profession for myself,” Wells said.

So she went to college and earned a degree in architecture, but returned to her family roots when the economy...

FRIDAY, October 16

VIRTUAL LOTERÍA

4 pm, join us Live on Facebook, @galluplibrary on for a virtual game of Lotería, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.  If you want to participate live from home and have a chance at winning prizes, request your free game board curbside at the Main Library beginning. For more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; (505) 863-1291.

SCIENCE AND STORIES

11 am Join us Live on Facebook and YouTube, @galluplibrary for beginning Spanish lessons and silly spooky science experiments this month. Videos are posted Wednesdays and Fridays at 11 am. This week: Opposites in Spanish.

SUNDAY, October 18

CROP HUNGER WALK

12 pm-2 pm @ The Community Pantry (1130 Hasler...