Items by Bruce Selcraig — 10 items
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Tribal Links
In New Mexico, some Indian reservations are jumping on a surprising new economic bandwagon, making use of their land and water rights to build golf courses and resorts to attract golf-playing tourists.
by Bruce Selcraig, Jun 04, 2001 -
Acequia culture feels under the gun
In his own words, artist and scholar Nicasio Romero talks about the threats facing the centuries-old acequia farm culture of New Mexico.
by Greg Hanscom And Bruce Selcraig, Oct 11, 1999 -
Mayordoma works hard to go unnoticed
Marie Coburn, mayordoma of an acequia that waters the small farms of Dixon, N.M., works to make sure that the 98 farmers on the ditch get the water they are entitled to.
by Bruce Selcraig, Oct 11, 1999 -
A home-grown Water War
In northern New Mexico, the small, family-owned Sipapu Ski Area is battling the little farming town of Dixon over water rights to the Rio Pueblo and Rio Embudo, tributaries of the Rio Grande.
by Bruce Selcraig, Oct 11, 1999 -
This reclamation plan uses waste to bury waste
The Midnite Mine, a uranium mine on Washington's Spokane Indian Reservation, would like to bury its high-level waste with trucked-in low-level nuclear waste, a plan the Spokane tribe protests.
by Bruce Selcraig, Jan 19, 1998 -
An off-the-books polluter
A loophole in the Toxics Release Inventory keeps mining pollution, except for that caused by smelters, off its lists.
by Bruce Selcraig, Sep 16, 1996 -
The filthy West: Toxics pour into our air, water, land
The EPA's Toxic Releases Inventory report documents the annual industrial pollution of land, air and water in the U.S., with six of the top 10 polluters located in the West.
by Bruce Selcraig, Sep 16, 1996 -
Lack of enchantment: Santa Fe's boom goes flat
Santa Fe's hotel and tourism industry blames populist Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city's upscale boom.
by Bruce Selcraig, Feb 05, 1996 -
Politics 101: The new politics has no room for a giant gentleman
A reporter travels through Washington state's 5th congressional district to try to understand the November election defeat of Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley after 30 years in office.
by Bruce Selcraig, May 29, 1995 -
Albuquerque learns it really is a desert town
Uncontrolled growth and the relocation of Intel Corporation to Albuquerque force the city to re-elvaluate its water policy.
by Bruce Selcraig, Dec 26, 1994
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