Why are New Mexico’s Indian tribes embracing the ultimate white man’s game?
Bruce Selcraig
Posted inOctober 11, 1999: A home-grown Water War
A home-grown Water War
Note: two sidebar articles accompany this feature story: “Mayordoma works hard to go unnoticed” and “Acequia culture feels under the gun.” DIXON, N.M. – As Western water wars go, the five-year-long dispute between a “50s-style family ski resort in northern New Mexico and its rural downstream neighbors appears to lack the naked greed and slimy […]
Posted inOctober 11, 1999: A home-grown Water War
Mayordoma works hard to go unnoticed
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. DIXON, N.M. – On a thunderous afternoon in this unusually wet New Mexico summer, likely the world’s only flaming red-headed, Sicilian-Danish acequia mayordoma (that’s long for ditch boss) is quite literally in over her head. “This … eeeeyunk!… is the … augghgh! … hard […]
Posted inJanuary 19, 1998: After the gold rush
This reclamation plan uses waste to bury waste
Note: This article accompanies another feature story in this special issue on hardrock mining and reclamation. WELLPINIT, Wash. – At 7:30 on the evening of April 4, 1954, twin brothers Jim and John LaBret loaded a finicky $54 Geiger counter into Jim’s blue “46 Chrysler and set off on a moonlight mission to find uranium. […]
Posted inSeptember 16, 1996: The filthy West: Toxics pour into our air, water, land
The filthy West
Toxics pour into our air, water, land
Posted inSeptember 16, 1996: The filthy West: Toxics pour into our air, water, land
An off-the-books polluter
Note: This article is a sidebar to a feature story. If the mining industry, which has produced at least 40 Superfund sites nationwide, becomes a part of TRI, it will make a lot of other polluters look like they were spitting in the ocean. “I don’t think there’s any ‘perhaps’ about it,” says Phelps Dodge […]
Posted inFebruary 5, 1996: Lack of enchantment: Santa Fe's boom goes flat
Lack of enchantment
Santa Fe’s boom goes flat
Posted inDecember 26, 1994: Albuquerque learns it really is a desert town
Albuquerque learns it really is a desert town
For about as long as anyone can remember the good citizens of Albuquerque have been living a fantasy when it comes to water. Despite receiving only eight inches of rain a year, residents have grown up washing their cars in the street, playing golf on lush coastal grass and using some 250 gallons of water […]
Posted inAugust 8, 1994: Glitz and growth take a major hit in Santa Fe
Glitz and growth take a major hit in Santa Fe
Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo, fresh from the populist coup in March that swept her and a progressive city council into office, still has that I-just-won-the-lottery euphoria about her this morning. She’s waving hello to diners at a downtown restaurant, shaking hands (“We did it, didn’t we!”) and getting needled a bit by husband Mike. […]
Posted inJune 13, 1994: A doomed species?
The Great River becomes a great sewer
FORT HANCOCK, Texas – Red-headed Jimmy Frank Rogers, a junior and an agile receiver on Fort Hancock High’s six-man football team (school enrollment: 102), straddled some spindly salt cedar on the steep banks of the Rio Grande and surveyed what was once the Great River. “I’d guess maybe 20 yards across,” offered Rogers, tugging at […]
Posted inNovember 1, 1993: Sunbelt confrontation
Inquiry into activist’s death continues
Inquiry into the death of Navajo activist Leroy Jackson continues. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Inquiry into activist’s death continues.
Posted inMay 17, 1993: Fore! in Santa Fe
Fore! in Santa Fe
A proposed golf course in Santa Fe is another milestone in the area’s cultural transformation. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Fore! in Santa Fe.
Posted inFebruary 22, 1993: The continuing saga of New Mexico's Gray Ranch
The continuing saga of New Mexico’s Gray Ranch
The Nature Conservancy sells the biologically diverse Gray Ranch amidst local concern. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The continuing saga of New Mexico’s Gray Ranch.