 Stories About: New Mexico
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Power to the Pueblo
Enviros Rejoice as Utility Drops Plan for Strip Mine in N.M. |
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05 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Power to the Pueblo Enviros Rejoice as Utility Drops Plan for Strip Mine in N.M. After a bitter 20-year fight, enviros and members of the Zuni Pueblo tribe had cause to celebrate yesterday, when an Arizona utility abandoned plans to build a large coal strip mine and railroad near a salt lake in western New Mexico that the Native Americans hold sacred. Most members of New Mexico's congressional delegation wrote to fed ... |
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| Topics: lakes, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics) |
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Brand New Mexico
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11 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Brand New Mexico And in very good news for enviros in New Mexico, Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law yesterday a measure designed to increase the amount of open space in the state. The Land Conservation Incentives Act will allow taxpayers -- whether individuals or corporations -- to deduct from state taxes half of the value of any land they donate to an environmental steward or protect under a conservation easement. The credit ... |
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| Topics: Bill Richardson, New Mexico (all these topics) |
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Range Bedfellows
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16 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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The Pardners' Tale
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15 Nov 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| The Pardners' Tale Cowboys and environmentalists unite! The unlikely amigos are banding together to try to keep natural gas drillers away from ranches on public land in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. Yesterday morning, they blocked drilling crews from entering four ranches, arguing that ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, erosion, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, ranching, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Free-range Checking
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04 Dec 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Free-range Checking The Sante Fe group Forest Guardians is hoping to raise $1 million to boot cattle from thousands of state-owned acres in Arizona and New Mexico. In late November, the group won a case before Arizona's Supreme Court that ended a state policy of allowing only ranchers to lease state school trust land, which includes about 8.3 million ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, New Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics) |
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First Contami-Nations
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25 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| First Contami-Nations Navajo activists plan to rally today and tomorrow against an energy bill before the U.S. Senate that would give $30 million to fund uranium mining on Navajo Nation lands in New Mexico. They say the mining would contaminate the drinking water of more than 15,000 people. Lori Goodman, spokesperson for Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, described the plan a ... |
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| Topics: health, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Ranch Dressing
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02 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Ranch Dressing Deep in cattle country, where enviros and ranchers often clash, the Sante-Fe-based Quivira Coalition says it is developing ways to ranch in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. Cofounder Jim Winder says some ranchers using the Quivira methods have doubled beef production without damaging the environment. Formed in 1997, the coalition has four "New Ranch" projects in New Mexico and plans ... |
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| Topics: Nevada, New Mexico, ranching (all these topics) |
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Republican Riders in the Saddle Again
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Donella H. Meadows |
24 Jul 2000 |
Global Citizen |
| I don't get it. Why are the 24-hour news media, always desperate for gripping stories, reporting every hour on the Camp David summit, though, as I write this column, they have no access to what's really going on? Why don't some of those eager reporters move over to Capitol Hill to cover the constantly changing, fully public, ludicrous, horrifying, astounding, comical, fascinating, and, I would argue, far more important Annua ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Harry Reid, Missouri River, New Mexico, politics, Rio Grande River, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Look on Seabright Side
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Ben White |
12 May 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Jeff Seabright, executive director of the White House Task Force on Climate Change, is bailing out in the waning days of the Clinton administration for a plum job in the private sector, namely as vice president for policy planning at Texaco. Muckraker had been hearing rumblings of the imminent departure for a week, but couldn't get calls returned by Seabright or task force spokesperson Paul Bledsoe. Lo and behold, the call confirming the move came ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, climate, Muckraker, New Mexico, Oklahoma, politics, Texas (all these topics) |
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Whither the Wolves?
New Mexico ranchers are howling over reintroduction efforts |
Michael Robinson, Writers on the Range |
02 Mar 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Two years after the first 11 Mexican gray wolves were released to much fanfare in the Apache National Forest of southeastern Arizona, and a year after an additional 22 wolves were freed in 1998, only seven remain in the wild. A lone wolf. Photo: J. & K. Hollingsworth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The problems the wolves face today are the same as those that ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, New Mexico, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Give This Rancher a Hand
New Mexican gives new definition to ranch home |
Lisa Jones |
30 Jun 1999 |
Main Dish |
| Ask any rancher -- these days, desperation is a lot more plentiful than grass on the western range. Beset by a lousy beef market and increasing costs, it is virtually impossible to make a cattle ranch pay. Jim Winder in ranch dressing. Jim Winder knows this very well. So this fourth-generation New Mexico rancher has branched out into bird-watching, building homes with low-impact materials like straw ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, New Mexico, placemaking (all these topics) |
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