Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
April Reese
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The return of the endangered Mexican wolf
A program that places captive-born pups into wild dens is helping North America’s rarest wolf subspecies reclaim its native territory in the Southwest.
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There’s a new boom in the Permian Basin — wastewater
As freshwater supplies shrink, interest in recycling water leftover from fracking is growing. Others aren’t so sure.
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New Mexico’s oil boom has made rural roads deadly
As oil wells multiply in the Permian Basin, the influx of heavy vehicles exacerbates risks for those living in the area.
Posted inFebruary 17, 2014: The Gila $olution
Can a grazing buyout program ease life for wolves and ranchers?
A fledgling effort in New Mexico’s ‘Yellowstone of the South.’
Posted inJuly 25, 2011: The Global West
A former energy company lawyer now fights for the other side
In the 1990s, oil and gas was booming, and industry attorney Lance Astrella had it all: a thriving practice, a plump paycheck and a reputation as one of the best in the business. Then one night, disturbed by rumors of drillers trashing private property, he attended a community meeting in Denver. One by one, people […]
Posted inJune 1, 2009: Voyage of the Dammed
States rev up ORV rules
Western legislation aims to curb off-roading problems
Posted inApril 13, 2009: The Desert That Breaks Annie Proulx’s Heart
Conservation or cop-out?
Lack of participation could scuttle voluntary efforts to protect species
Posted inNovember 10, 2008: Still Howling Wolf
Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?
Land managers and industry are stepping up efforts to reclaim public lands scraped and drilled for oil and gas. Is it too little, too late?
Posted inApril 14, 2008: Taking to the Trees
The leasing protest game
Conservationists’ gritty strategy yields small fruit
Posted inJuly 21, 2008: A fractured party
Home is where the guilt is
Sitting here in the stingy shade of a pinon pine, a few hundred feet from a two-lane road on the outskirts of Santa Fe, I can almost picture the house that will soon be built here — my house. It will be smallish but comfortable, faux adobe (a given in “the City Different”), with two […]
Posted inDecember 11, 2006: Old but Faithful
Environmental change
In a startling post-election turn-about, Sen. Domenici moves to protect New Mexico’s Valle Vidal
Posted inJuly 24, 2006: Taking Liberties
As states ponder protection, roadless forests unravel
Forest Service says it’s bound by the rules to allow some logging, drilling and mining
Posted inMarch 6, 2006: Save Our Snow
Energy company stakes out wildlife refuge
Iridescent dragonflies, shimmering wetlands, and the many imperiled species that call a southeastern New Mexico wildlife refuge home may soon have a new neighbor: gas wells. Yates Petroleum Co., based in Artesia, N.M., told U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials last month it plans to drill two wells in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge — […]
Posted inOctober 17, 2005: The Ghosts of Yosemite
States lead charge against global warming
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “The Ghosts of Yosemite.” From California to Colorado and from Washington to New Mexico, Western states, tired of federal inaction on climate change, are saddling up to tackle the issue on their own. Whether it means deciding that a certain percentage of their electrical […]
Posted inJuly 25, 2005: The Many Faces of Richard Pombo
Western governors wary of roadless forest mess
Bush administration touts state control, but Washington, D.C., will make the final call
Posted inJuly 25, 2005: The Many Faces of Richard Pombo
Wolf man John
NAME John Morgart TITLE Mexican wolf recovery program coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service HOME BASE Albuquerque, N.M. AGE 53 HE SAYS “I’ve known what I wanted to do with my life ever since I was 3 or 4 years old. I just always knew I wanted to be a wildlife biologist.” John Morgart has […]
Posted inApril 4, 2005: Calling It Quits
The Big Buyout
Tough economics, drought and increasing clashes with recreational users have pushed some public-lands ranchers to the edge. Now, check-wielding conservationists want to give them an easy way out.
Posted inApril 4, 2005: Calling It Quits
One BLM district grabs the bull by the horns
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “The Big Buyout.” One hot spot for grazing retirements is the Upper Deschutes area of south-central Oregon, where ranchers have been butting heads with a burgeoning population of newcomers, prodding the Bureau of Land Management to move cows off the land. Private development is […]
Posted inFebruary 21, 2005: Have Environmentalists Failed the West?
Nun calls the faithful to an ‘ecological ministry’
NAME Joan Brown VOCATION Head of the Ecological Ministry of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Order of St. Francis AGE 51 HOME BASE Albuquerque, New Mexico MOST NOTED FOR Taking on social and environmental issues with a Catholic sensibility INSPIRED BY Catholic priest and philosopher Thomas Berry, who said, “If we lose the grandeur of […]