With the Gila Wilderness Centennial celebration coming up on June 1 and 2, 2024, there will be many opportunities between now and then to learn more about Wilderness, it's history and it's future. Steve Brower, Leopold Scholar, presents Aldo Leopold - Roots of the Land Ethic
Thistles flowers are some of the first flowers to appear in the landscape. They attract many butterflies such as the monarch, skippers, and the various types of tiger swallowtail. My favorites!
As I grow older I am amazed to find a month has passed and I have to think hard as to where it went. This article was originally intended for Earth Day but the story still applies even a month later.
A very unexpected and pleasant surprise! On the nite of Saturday 5/13 Kingston got doused with 1.15″ of rain. You can see the enlarged photographs by clicking on them.
Today's intelligence: The Lower Colorado River Basin states may have reached a conceptual agreement to accept equal reductions of their river water allowment. Plus: plans for stricter gun laws post-Farmington; Route 152's reopening; and Virgin Galactic's final crewed test flight before commercial operations begin
Celebrating a near-normal Rio Grande irrigation water release and a first-place award for "innoventure"
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses a nuclear waste storage facility for southern New Mexico in the face of vociferous opposition from state officials and environmental activists. Virgin Galactic continues to tell investors and the media that it will soon begin commercial flights.
Stargazers are invited to join the party for "Constellations of Ancient Cultures" with John T. Stocke on Saturday May 30 in Kingston at the Black Range Lodge.
Water pollution will now be addressed at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamagordo, allowing closed test wells to reopen and vital research to continue.
Today's intelligence: Can New Mexico's new bill granting the state permitting control over nuclear waste storage facilities survive a court challenge from the federal government? What will it take to get the feds to clean up a water pollution problem at Kirtland Air Force Base?
April 29th is Arbor Day and a group of citizens assembled in a lot on Broadway to plant a tree. To them, it was more than just a celebration of Arbor Day.
A "collosal" expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory's nuclear mission prompts New Mexico religious leader John C. Wester to speak out forcefully for nuclear disarmament. Plus: a closer look at the possible nullification of a new law aimed at preventing nuclear waste storage in the state
