Watersheds around New Mexico will benefit from five new projects approved for funding through the New Mexico Environment Department’s nonpoint source pollution program. The majority of surface water quality problems identified in New Mexico are caused by nonpoint source water pollution, such as rainfall or snowmelt moving...News
State water restoration projects approved
Watersheds around New Mexico will benefit from five new projects approved for funding through the New Mexico Environment Department’s nonpoint source pollution program. The majority of surface water quality problems identified in New Mexico are caused by nonpoint source water pollution, such as rainfall or snowmelt moving...New Mexicans share their stories as Land Witnesses
The impact of the changing climate on lives and livelihoods on YoutubeALBUQUERQUE — The Land Witness Project was conceived from a desire to learn about the ways the changing climate is affecting New Mexico’s lands and people now and in the future. It seeks to deepen scientific understanding with stories that clarify what is at stake for us as individuals and communities.
The purpose of the project is to illuminate neglected personal accounts of rural New Mexicans facing challenges and how they are responding with positive individual and community actions.
“It is our hope the stories will stimulate meaningful conversations and reimagine how we live and work, free from blame...
Officials from Western states call on Congress
Add a ‘Gateway Community Dividend’ to the PILT Program
Nearly 70 county commissioners, mayors, and council members from public land gateway communities in 11 western states sent a letter Oct. 21 to their congressional offices asking them to add a Gateway Community Dividend to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program.
In 1976 Congress created the PILT program, which requires the federal government to make annual payments to local governments to compensate them for property taxes not collected on lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service and some military installations within their...
Nearly 70 county commissioners, mayors, and council members from public land gateway communities in 11 western states sent a letter Oct. 21 to their congressional offices asking them to add a Gateway Community Dividend to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program.
In 1976 Congress created the PILT program, which requires the federal government to make annual payments to local governments to compensate them for property taxes not collected on lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service and some military installations within their...
Governor amends public health order amid COVID case rise
Hotspot businesses to be temporarily closed; retail hours limited; safety requirements for food and drink establishments enhancedSANTA FE – The state of New Mexico’s amended emergency public health order is in effect as of Oct. 23.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state health and workplace safety officials earlier this week detailed new enhanced mitigation efforts to crack down on COVID-19 throughout New Mexico, a targeted and moderated approach that is intended to break the chain of escalating statewide infections and prevent the virus from overwhelming state hospitals without enacting wholesale business closings.
The state’s newest mitigation efforts include an enhanced strategy...
What COVID shuts down Art opens up
Artist Shannon Gurley O’Donnell talks ‘Native Beauty’Watercolor can be a difficult medium for some artists to grasp because of the necessary attention to detail and technique. But one artist working with Gallup Arts is rising to the challenge.
Gallup Arts Executive Director Rose Eason hosted a virtual artist talk with Shannon Gurley O’Donnell Oct. 13 about the newly opened Native Beauty exhibit being hosted at the ART123 gallery through Nov. 7.
WHERE IDEAS COME FROM
O’Donnell, from Gallup, but now living in Phoenix, discussed the exhibit, which is about the generations of people who have called the Gallup region home, and the artwork and visual culture that has...
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