NAME: Bill Zeedyk AGE: 72 years OCCUPATION: Riparian restoration guru MILES DRIVEN TO EDUCATE THE MASSES: 35,000-40,000 per year. FAVORITE ROAD FOOD: Nestle’s Crunch bars. He eats them by the box. CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: A seven-foot walking stick, cut from a century plant while hiking in the El Concillo Mountains. It serves as a pointer […]
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Posted inJune 25, 2007: Predator hunters for the environment
The red, white and blue of ‘red or green?’
New Mexico’s chile industry faces hot competition from global producers
Posted inJune 11, 2007: Brave New Hay
John Nichols and his 19th miracle
NAME: John Nichols VOCATION: Author of 19 books offiction and nonfiction, including The Milagro Beanfield War, The Sterile Cuckoo, Conjugal Bliss, The Voice of the Butterfly and If Mountains Die. AGE: 66 Thoughts on Death and THE Afterlife “You just die. It’s over, Rover.” Advice: “Part of surviving is not to stress yourself out and […]
Posted inMay 14, 2007: Two Views of the Verde
Two weeks in the West
James Doohan, the actor who played “Scotty” on Star Trek, always dreamed of traveling into space. Finally, on April 28, his dream came true. Doohan, along with astronaut Gordon Cooper and 200 others, blasted off in a rocket from the southern New Mexico desert, passed briefly into space and then parachuted back to Earth. For […]
Posted inMay 14, 2007: Two Views of the Verde
Mirroring the maquila boom
New Mexico looks to build its border industry by attracting suppliers for Mexican manufacturers across the border in Juárez
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Too much can be asked of a river
What do China’s Yangtze, India’s Ganges and America’s Rio Grande have in common? All share the dubious distinction of making a “Top 10” list compiled by the World Wildlife Fund of rivers in trouble. On the lower Rio Grande, where the river forms the border between the United States and Mexico, the challenges include widespread […]
Posted inApril 2, 2007: Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
Harvesting the sky
Thirsty Santa Fe catches on to catching rainwater
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The Gila’s Monster
Cottonwoods support the banks of New Mexico’s Gila River, and sycamores shade endangered Southwestern willow flycatchers and threatened loach minnows. For those who live near it, the Gila – the state’s last free-flowing river – is both a source of water and a font of contention. In 2004, the Arizona Water Settlements Act re-distributed some […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 2007: One nation, under fire
New Mexico’s water rebel
Name: Bill Turner Fond Childhood Memory: Listening to the Lone Ranger radio show: “Good will prevail.” Coffee or Tea: Coffee, black, in a to-go cup with a few cubes of ice Resume Excerpts: Firewall riveter for Navy S2F submarine-hunter aircraft (1958); Peace Corps volunteer and geologist in Cyprus (1963-1964); New Mexico natural resources trustee (1995-2003); […]
Posted inDecember 25, 2006: Confessions of a Methane Floozy
Confessions of a Methane Floozy
Faustian bargains in the gas fields of New Mexico’s San Juan Basin
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico’s Forests
Out of the angry thickets of the past, environmentalists and loggers cut a new path
Posted inSeptember 4, 2006: Blast from the Past
The Fourth Wave
Can the West’s uranium towns rise once more?
Posted inJune 26, 2006: The Tamarisk Hunter
Land deal, New Mexico style
Ancestral land turned corporation could be up for sale
Posted inJune 12, 2006: The Perpetual Growth Machine
Solar companies roll the dice
Gambling that the economics of energy are changing, two new companies have proposed building the largest solar power plant in the world. New Solar Ventures and Solar Torx, both based in Phoenix, Ariz., plan to construct a solar power plant and a factory to manufacture the necessary photovoltaic cells. The 300-megawatt plant near Deming, N.M., […]
Posted inMay 15, 2006: The Immigrant's Trail
Repo Manic
“An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.” — Repo Man, 1984 At 5 foot 9 inches tall, Gary Autry doesn’t cut a towering figure, but his broad shoulders and bulk give the 42-year-old former high school linebacker a commanding presence. He wears a […]
Posted inMarch 20, 2006: Town Shopping
Town Shopping
Maintaining karmic balance in the New West’s real estate economy
Posted inMarch 20, 2006: Town Shopping
Is everyone a Realtor?
Realtors are everywhere in the West these days — including the seats of power
Posted inFebruary 20, 2006: High Noon for Habitat
Waiting for Rain
This year, I spent Christmas in Albuquerque lounging on my back porch, reading in a tank top and suffering a fool’s sunburn. Now, in late January, it’s sunny and in the mid-50s. And although two days ago, the local newspaper kept posting updates about a storm system heading into the state, here in the city, […]
Posted inFebruary 6, 2006: The Killing Fields
Heard around the West
NEW MEXICO A mouse living in the house of 81-year-old Luciano Mares of Fort Sumner did not take kindly to being set on fire. Mares said that after he caught the intruder, he threw it outside onto a pile of burning leaves. The burning rodent, however, got its revenge by running back to the house […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 2006: Timberlands up for grabs
A watery mystery in New Mexico
Even if you haven’t read a mystery novel since the Hardy Boys, give Rudolfo Anaya’s new book, Jemez Spring, a whirl. All in one day, Sonny Baca, an Albuquerque private investigator, works to solve the governor’s murder at the Jemez Springs Bath House and deactivate a nuclear bomb left in the Valles Caldera to blow […]