Stuff you need to know, 6.28.23

“Mexican wolf captured near Taos released in Arizona”
by Geoffrey Plant, Taos News
June 20, 2023

The young female Mexican gray wolf—named “Asha” by schoolchildren but known officially—had traveled over 500 miles away from its natal pack in Arizona when it was captured in northern New Mexico in January. As this far was outside the geographical boundaries of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s reintroduction and recovery program, the migrating wolf’s return to the designated experimental population area in Arizona and southern New Mexico was required, much to the consternation of wildlife conservation advocates.

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“Secretary Haaland Reflects on Tenure and Tradition Amid Policy Challenges”
by Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press, posted in The Paper
June 27, 2023

Profile of Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a longtime New Mexico resident who is the first Native American Cabinet member in the U.S., at the mid-point of her tenure.

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“State’s Heat Index Off the Charts”
The Paper
June 27, 2023

You don’t need anyone to tell you it’s hot, but here are reminders of the threat posed by New Mexico’s scorching temperatures and sources of further information to keep close at hand.

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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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