Stuff you need to know, 8.24.23
Today's intelligence: The New Mexico Game and Fish Department is seeking public comment on needed adjustments to cougar and bear hunting regulations.
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Stuff you need to know, 8.23.23
Today's intelligence: An open letter to the residents of Truth or Consequences, written and posted downtown anonymously, is reposted here to stimulate a vigorous civic assessment of the accuracy of the letter's allegations about the alarming mismanagement of the city's water and wastewater departments.
Stuff you need to know, 8.21.23
Today's intelligence: Popular New Mexico pundit Joe Monahan sees handwriting on the wall for Virgin Galactic.
Sphinx moth pollinating four-o’clock blooms
This year four-o'clocks are bountiful and so are the sphinx moths which are well adapted to pollinate them.
Water Hearing IV: Second Week
I give a biased but, I hope, interesting report of what happened this past week in the OSE hearing on opposition to the transfer of water rights for use at Copper Flat Mine. PAWA and the Ladder Ranch presented their cases.
Stuff you need to know, 8.18.23
Today's intelligence: Congressman Gabe Vasquez introduces legislation to help pay medical bills of New Mexico oil and gas workers injured on the job.
Stuff you need to know, 8.17.23
Today's intelligence: Spaceport America settles a former employee's discrimination lawsuit.
Stuff you need to know, 8.16.23
Today's intelligence: no cuts in Colorado water use predicted for 2024 and an update on the congressional redistricting lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Republican Party
Native by design
I had meant to get this out in time for the Gila Native Plant Society plant sale but let us just use it as a reminder to use native plants in our landscapes wherever we can. Nature will help once you have started.
Stuff you need to know, 8.15.23
Today's intelligence: Why did New Mexico rank last in a new study of the U.S. states that offer the best quality of life?
Stuff you need to know, 8.14.23
Today's intelligence: The EPA is offering free technical assistance to communities like Truth or Consequences to help them address their water infrastructure problems.
Water Hearing III: The First Week
The State Engineer’s Hearing of the protests against the mine’s application to move leased water rights to their wells for use at Copper Flat Mine has now finished its first week. It has yielded some surprises as well as some really excellent research.