Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering
and Politics is as deep and erudite a tome as it sounds, and yet
also a surprisingly good read
Items by Laura Paskus
New Mexico’s traditional chile industry faces hot
competition from global producers
When an energy developer boasted that oil and gas wells
were good for wildlife, Laura Paskus examined the issue and came to
another conclusion.
Santa Teresa, N.M., hopes to build its sluggish economy by
attracting industrial suppliers for the factories just across the
border in Mexico
Laura Paskus lives a mile and a half from the Rio Grande,
a river which shares a dubious distinction with India’s
Ganges and China’s Yangze: The three are among the Top Ten
most endangered rivers on the planet.
It may have lovely photographs, but Valles Caldera: A
Vision for New Mexico’s National Reserve is much more than
just another coffee-table book.
Albuquerque water developer Bill Turner, a board member of
the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, is often described as
the bane of the district as well.
There’s nothing like a campfire to soothe and lift
the soul
The writer warns that management of Valles Vidal is
alienating locals and getting off-track
Taos County’s new Mobile Matanza is a rolling
livestock butchering unit that travels to the region’s
far-flung family ranchers
A new plan to steer energy development away from cultural
sites in New Mexico could streamline energy development, fund
archaeological research and preserve ancient sites all at
once
The writer celebrates the harvest and community supported
agriculture
The New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association’s Zia Rodeo
brings out all kinds of cowboys and cowgirls
Louisiana Energy Services, a European-based company,
breaks ground on the first uranium enrichment facility in the U.S.
near Eunice, N.M.
David Schoenbrod explains why the nation’s
environmental laws are not being properly implemented in
Saving Our Environment From Washington: How Congress Grabs
Power, Shirks Responsibility and Shortchanges the
People
Jennifer Napier-Pearce uses her own money to produce a
Salt Lake City-based podcast called Inside
Utah
Dave Frazier started the online Boise
Guardian in order to keep an eye on local government and
rile his fellow citizens
The nation may be intrigued by the contest between
incumbent Republican Rep. Heather Wilson and New Mexico Attorney
General Patricia Madrid, but the New Mexicans who will actually
vote in the election seem fairly disinterested.
The federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was
created to compensate uranium miners and mill workers sickened by
their jobs, but on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Bruce Baird
Struminger says the program has proved flawed
The Navajo Nation is fighting to keep uranium mining off
the reservation, but eager uranium companies are determined to
mine– and the federal government is on their side
New Mexico and other Western states are vying for
ascendancy in the film industry, offering movie makers an
assortment of tax breaks and financial incentives
In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes
engagingly about working the land on a small farm in
California’s Central Valley
The writer discovers that a fish without water really is a
dead fish
In his memoir, Walking It Off,
wilderness activist Doug Peacock tries to make sense of a life
spent dealing with war, fighting for wilderness, and coping with
cantankerous friends like the late Ed Abbey
In booming Albuquerque, N.M., the former Atrisco Land
Grant – now the Westland Development Corporation –
wants to sell land to developers, but not all the land grant heirs
are pleased with the prospect
Navajo Nation opens arms to coal-fired Desert Rock power
plant; plan to trade public lands for schools is pulled off table;
EPA has new Homeland Security position
In No Country for Old Men, Cormac
McCarthy discards his bitter nostalgia to tell a story set along
the border in the 1980s
Live! From Death Valley is John
Soennichsen’s "love letter to an ill-tempered mistress,"
California’s Death Valley
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico
may begin taking hotter waste if the state carries out plans to
relax regulations
A View from the Inland Empire, a new
collection of essays from Stephen J. Lyons, is an honest account of
coming to — and later leaving — the West, and in the
process learning about home and heart and family
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- 9 numbers that explain the BLM’s headquarters boomerang back to D.C.
- After the Palisades Tahoe name change, where is the Washoe Tribe looking next?
- A monsoon summer in the Southwest
- In Arizona, a radical change in juvenile detention
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