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  • The missing puzzle piece

    The missing puzzle piece

    In southwestern Colorado’s Crow Canyon, archaeologists are working with Native Americans to solve the historical mysteries of the Four Corners area.

    by Ernest Atencio , Dec 03, 2008

  • Taos' return to the acequias

    38 years of meetings and a price-tag of $120 million formalize old agreements

    by Ernest Atencio, Jul 10, 2008

  • The high carbon cost of la vida rural

    Commentary: Driving impacts our ecologically-conscious life

    by Ernest Atencio, May 27, 2008

  • The mysticism of mud

    Ernest Atencio ponders an exceptionally muddy Mud Season in New Mexico, and notes how readily most Westerners forget that we live in an arid landscape.

    by Ernest Atencio, May 12, 2008

  • The fractured states of mining reclamation

    A comparison of mine reclamation in Western states shows the specifics of reclamation very widely in each state.

    by Ernest Atencio, Dec 03, 2001

  • Reclamation's mixed bag

    The art and science of mine reclamation is very complicated, and so far there have not been enough long-term successes to learn from.

    by Ernest Atencio, Dec 03, 2001

  • Closing the wounds

    If the 1993 New Mexico Mining Act is allowed to work, it could usher in a new era of mine reclamation in which mines actually have to clean up and pay for the messes they leave behind.

    by Ernest Atencio, Dec 03, 2001

  • The life and times of a mining town

    A timeline traces the history of the Molycorp mine in Questa, N.M., and its environmental problems.

    by Ernest Atencio, Aug 28, 2000

  • The mine that turned the Red River blue

    Though the economic future of the area is uncertain, activists welcome a possible Superfund listing for the huge Molycorp molybdenum mine in Questa, N.M., as a way to save the town and the Red River from yet more mine-waste pollution.

    by Ernest Atencio, Aug 28, 2000

  • A norteno champions a local environmental ethic

    The essays that sociologist Devon Peûa has assembled in his book, "Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin," argue for a homegrown Chicano environmental ethic in the changing, contested landscape of New Mexico.

    by Ernest Atencio, Apr 24, 2000

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