GALLUP— Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer attended the graveside services for U.S. Army PFC Carlton Lane Chee, a member of the Navajo Nation, who passed away at the age of 25 on Sept. 2 while stationed at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas. Services were held at the National Veterans Cemetery...News
U.S. Army PFC Carlton Lane Chee laid to rest
GALLUP— Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer attended the graveside services for U.S. Army PFC Carlton Lane Chee, a member of the Navajo Nation, who passed away at the age of 25 on Sept. 2 while stationed at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas. Services were held at the National Veterans Cemetery...Shiprock court will not dismiss Navajo Nation suit to stop growing of hemp
SHIPROCK, NAVAJO NATION—The Shiprock District Court denied the arguments made by defendant Dineh Benally that the Navajo Nation’s lawsuit against him and his companies should be dismissed on Sept. 10.In a nineteen-page order, the Court reviewed, analyzed and denied each of the four arguments made by Benally.
Benally had claimed that
(1) the Shiprock Court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case,
(2) the Nation must resolve the matter through the San Juan Regional Farm Board – on which Benally serves as President,
(3) the Nation failed to join the San Juan River Farm Board – which is an entity of the Nation, and
(4) Benally denied knowledge of the existence of co-defendants...
Navajo Nation implements Stage 1 Fire Restrictions
Resolves issues over USE OF chainsaws to gather FIREWOODStaff Reports
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Vice President Myron Lizer, Attorney General Doreen N. McPaul, and Navajo Area BIA Director Bartholomew Stevens signed Executive Order No. 010-20 on Sept. 16, implementing Stage 1 Fire Restrictions on the Navajo Nation, which also resolves concerns over the use of chainsaws to gather firewood for the upcoming winter season.
The new Executive Order lifts some of the restrictions that were included in the previous Stage 2 Fire Restrictions, which went into effect in May during the height of fire dangers on the Navajo Nation. With ongoing wildfires in the...
Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World
Week ending Friday, September 11, 2020Plastic Soils
New research finds that microplastic pollution is causing harm to the tiny creatures living in the ground.
Writing in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, scientists say the assault is occurring in soil-dwelling mites, larvae and other creatures that are crucial to the fertility of the land. They play an important role in recycling carbon and nitrogen, and they break down organic material. Plots contaminated with microplastics saw a reduction of those creatures of between 15% and 62%, the scientists said.
Earthquakes
At least 34 people were injured when a magnitude 5.2 quake damaged homes in northeastern Iran’s...
New high-resolution stream dataset improves accuracy
Better protects hundreds of stream milesThe New Mexico Environment Department recently made significant improvements to the accuracy of mapped streams, resulting in better representation - and better protection - of hundreds of additional miles of streams in the state.
The higher-resolution GIS layer, built using National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution data, captures more of the actual stream sinuosity (curves and bends) and extends higher into the watershed to better represent true stream length. With the higher resolution, New Mexico’s assessed stream length increased from 7,832 miles to 8,647 miles.
“Surface water resources are more precious here than most other...
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