TAOS, N.M. — Winter was coming, and like so many others, I was broke. I had a freezer full of elk meat, but it wasn’t enough to survive the cold months in the high country. There’s no fat in elk meat; explorers Lewis and Clark lost weight on it, my friends say. With little money […]
Andy Lenderman
Posted inMarch 17, 2003: Bracing against the tide
Taosenos take on Wal-Mart
Backers use populist rhetoric to promote a corporate giant
Posted inFebruary 3, 2003: The death of the Super Hopper
New lands boss takes the reins
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “Project mixes suburbs with nature preserve.” SANTA FE, New Mexico — Last month, Pat Lyons was fighting two-foot snowdrifts and looking for a hired man to replace him on his 15,000-acre ranch near Cuervo, on New Mexico’s […]
Posted inDecember 3, 2001: Closing the wounds
Cooperating on the Valles Caldera
A public preserve in New Mexico puts its trust in trustees
Posted inDecember 6, 1999: Peggy Godfrey's long, strange trip
Uranium haunts the Colorado Plateau
CROWNPOINT, N.M. – As a trademark New Mexico sunset paints pastels over this high desert town, it’s hard to imagine that the poisonous legacy of uranium mining could be repeated here. During the 1950s and ’60s, this town of about 2,000 near the Navajo Reservation was hit by a uranium mining boom. It left Navajos […]