Caja del Rio petroglyphs
The BLM now has the tools to better protect cultural treasures like 8,000-year-old petroglyphs on the Caja del Rio plateau outside of Santa Fe.

Stuff you need to know, 4.19.24

Today’s intelligence from state and/or national reporting

“BLM finalizes controversial public lands rule”
Hannah Grover, NM Political Report

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s new rule allows for conservation leasing, which advocates say puts conservation on equal footing with fossil fuel extraction and grazing. In addition, the rule calls on the BLM to designate more Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, which can help protect sacred sites and resources as well as wildlife habitat.

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“NM governor to call special session focused on crime”
by Austin Fisher, Source NM
April 17, 2024

New Mexico lawmakers will be called to Santa Fe in July to consider bills related to criminal competency, gun charges and panhandling that didn’t pass in this winter’s 30-day legislative session.

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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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