Items by Bruce Selcraig

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.
Bruce Selcraig June 4, 2001 From the print edition
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.
Greg Hanscom And Bruce Selcraig Oct. 11, 1999 From the print edition
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.
Bruce Selcraig Oct. 11, 1999 From the print edition
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.
Bruce Selcraig Oct. 11, 1999 From the print edition
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.
Bruce Selcraig Jan. 19, 1998 From the print edition
An off-the-books polluter
A loophole in the Toxics Release Inventory keeps mining pollution, except for that caused by smelters, off its lists.
Bruce Selcraig Sept. 16, 1996 From the print edition
The filthy West
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.
Bruce Selcraig Sept. 16, 1996 From the print edition
Lack of enchantment
Santa Fe's hotel and tourism industry blames populist Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city's upscale boom.
Bruce Selcraig Feb. 5, 1996 From the print edition
Politics 101
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.
Bruce Selcraig May 29, 1995 From the print edition
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.
Bruce Selcraig Dec. 26, 1994 From the print edition
Glitz and growth take a major hit in Santa Fe
Newly elected Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo promises progressive, populist changes.
Bruce Selcraig Aug. 8, 1994 From the print edition
The Great River becomes a great sewer
The bi-national program Project del Rio monitors the increasing pollution of the Rio Grande on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bruce Selcraig June 13, 1994 From the print edition
Inquiry into activist's death continues
Inquiry into the death of Navajo activist Leroy Jackson continues.
Bruce Selcraig Nov. 1, 1993 From the print edition
Fore! in Santa Fe
A proposed golf course in Santa Fe is another milestone in the area's cultural transformation.
Bruce Selcraig May 17, 1993 From the print edition
The continuing saga of New Mexico's Gray Ranch
The Nature Conservancy sells the biologically diverse Gray Ranch amidst local concern.
Bruce Selcraig Feb. 22, 1993 From the print edition
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