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.
Items by Bruce Selcraig
In his own words, artist and scholar Nicasio Romero talks
about the threats facing the centuries-old acequia farm culture of
New Mexico.
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.
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.
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.
A loophole in the Toxics Release Inventory keeps mining
pollution, except for that caused by smelters, off its
lists.
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.
Santa Fe's hotel and tourism industry blames populist
Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city's upscale
boom.
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.
Uncontrolled growth and the relocation of Intel
Corporation to Albuquerque force the city to re-elvaluate its water
policy.
Newly elected Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo promises
progressive, populist changes.
The bi-national program Project del Rio monitors the
increasing pollution of the Rio Grande on the U.S.-Mexico
border.
Inquiry into the death of Navajo activist Leroy Jackson
continues.
A proposed golf course in Santa Fe is another milestone in the area's cultural transformation.
The Nature Conservancy sells the biologically diverse Gray
Ranch amidst local concern.
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