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Stuff you need to know, 3.23.23

“Landowner locks access to popular Gila trail”
by Algernon D’Ammassa, The Deming Headlight
March 21, 2023

The landowner, recreational users and (unofficially) local Forest Service personnel air their points of view about the landowner’s closure of Forest Road 40E leading to public trailhead access to thousands of acres of Gila National Forest at the point near Kingston that the road crosses the landowner’s property.

Click on the above link to read this free-access article.

“Firms buying land and water rights in Western US”
by Lucy Kafanov, CNN
Undated

East Coast investment firms are purchasing cheap, rural agricultural lands up and down the Colorado River to obtain the accompanying water rights with the intent of making millions from the sale of water to increasingly parched communities in the Southwest and West.

Click on the above link to view this free-access video report.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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