Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, A struggle for the last grass. The flier’s drawings were tiny – a deer, a fish, a wild turkey and a cow – but its message was brassy. “ATTENTION SPORTSMEN!! Regardless of your sport, if you enjoy being able to utilize public lands, your […]
Tony Davis
Posted inMay 2, 1994: A struggle for the last grass
Free speech can be costly in New Mexico
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, A struggle for the last grass. In southwest New Mexico, it’s a struggle to be green. In 1991, wolf advocate Pamela Brown tried to show her video, Wolf Teacher, at schools in Silver City and neighboring towns. It mixes cuddly scenes of wolves licking […]
Posted inMay 2, 1994: A struggle for the last grass
A struggle for the last grass
SILVER CITY, N.M. – Black Canyon is a place that only a hard-core stream addict should be able to love, so barren are its edges, so sparse its grasses. Superficially, the canyon offers a park-like atmosphere in America’s first wilderness. The stream runs freely over its shallow bed, and a few 75- to 100-foot-tall cottonwoods […]
Posted inFebruary 21, 1994: Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
BLM chief Jim Baca leaves amidst cheers and boos
Jim Baca’s nine-month run as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management chief ended Feb. 3. After Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt made it clear in a private meeting that Baca’s services at BLM were no longer desired, the usually outspoken Baca reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a piece of paper containing his resignation. […]
Posted inFebruary 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
Babbitt has a bad day in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For two hours, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt preached the joys of consensus to New Mexico ranchers and environmentalists. And for two hours, the ranchers and environmentalists snapped at each other with the same gusto that has marked their exchanges for the past decade. The Jan. 20 meeting at the University of New […]
Posted inJanuary 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
Tiny reporter at a small paper writes a big story
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In July 1987, newly hired Albuquerque Tribune reporter Eileen Welsome was thumbing through declassified government documents on radioactive waste dumps at the local Air Force base when a footnote caught her eye. It was about plutonium experiments on humans. Stunned, she went to her city editor with the story idea. As Welsome […]
Posted inNovember 1, 1993: Sunbelt confrontation
Sunbelt confrontation
Will Albuquerque roll over itspast to reach its future?
Posted inNovember 1, 1993: Sunbelt confrontation
Petroglyphs have drawn fire for decades
Urban crime has risen at the Petroglyph National Monument as Albuquerque draws nearer. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Petroglyphs have drawn fire for decades.
Posted inMay 17, 1993: Fore! in Santa Fe
Bruce Babbitt on Western land use: 1993 is the ‘year ofdecision’
Babbitt participates in a number of grazing meetings held around the West. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Bruce Babbitt on Western land use: 1993 is the ‘year ofdecision’.
Posted inMay 17, 1993: Fore! in Santa Fe
Can some good come out of the CAP?
The writer reflects on the costs and benefits of the Central Arizona Project. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Can some good come out of the CAP?.
Posted inMarch 22, 1993: The dam that won't die
New Mexico begins to regulate a huge mine
Molycorp in Mew Mexico comes under fire from Concerned Citizens Del Norte for polluting the Red River. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline New Mexico begins to regulate a huge mine.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Babbitt wins Interior, by a hair
Babbitt wins as Secretary of the Interior by a narrow margin. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Babbitt wins Interior, by a hair.
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
WIPP takes one giant step forward
A bitter, five-year congressional fight over the world’s first engineered nuclear waste dump has been settled in time-honored fashion: in the back room. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Pressure builds to change remote park
Chaco Canyon is a battleground, with tourists, environmentalists, business interests and Navajos jousting over whether to build a paved road to a park now served only by dirt roads. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 10, 1992: Arizona's water disaster
Arizona’s water disaster
The $4 billion Central Arizona Project project provides water, but few can afford to buy it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?
Apaches split over nuclear waste
The marriage of progress and preservation on the 460,000-acre Mescalero reservation is threatening to crack. Tribal leaders were first in the nation to agree to study temporary storage of high-level radioactive waste from power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
In a Navajo community of 1,000 just west of the New Mexico state line, many families are trying to cope with the loss of loved ones and the sight of numerous others slowly dying from lung cancer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 20, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part I: Billions for quantity, but not a penny for quality
Subterranean toxics threaten city
Southwestern cities are famous for drawing down their aquifers. But Albuquerque, New Mexico, may exhaust its aquifer while still leaving it in the ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 9, 1989: WIPP is dazed, but not dead
WIPP is dazed, but not dead
The fight over the federal Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is in a stalemate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 31, 1989: Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
Many agree that Lujan won’t have the aggressive hostility to conservation interests of a James Watt. Beyond that, few can say. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E