In New Mexico, local residents are working with schoolkids
and activists to find ways to prevent roadkill in dangerous Tijeras
Canyon
New Mexico
The Energy Transition Act could be a model for ambitious policies of the future.
Nearly 2 billion pounds of toxic waste were dumped into western waterways in 2017, and taxpayers are left to clean up the mess.
Where students reside and where schools thrive highlights an opportunity gap in New Mexico’s capital.
A conservation movement is stirring on the Great Plains,
but local farmers are stuck with a harsh reality: It still pays to
plow up virgin prairie
Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility for West
Jordan, Utah, lumberyard arson; Nuclear Regulatory Commission
won’t listen to concerns about New Mexico’s proposed
uranium-enrichment plant; warm waters in the Klamath may cause huge
fish kill
Two Democratic governors – Dave Freudenthal of
Wyoming and Bill Richardson of New Mexico – find themselves
caught between the money that comes from the energy industry and
the environmental impacts of oil and gas development
Land managers have been talking about letting more
wildfires burn, but the recent blowup of the Peppin Fire near
Capitan, N.M. – home of Smokey Bear – leads to renewed
talk of aggressive fire suppression
Citizen-proposed wilderness areas in the West are the
latest battleground in the war over oil and gas drilling on the
public lands
In New Mexico, ranchers like Tweeti Blancett are working
with environmentalists to keep oil and gas drillers away from Otero
Mesa
Energen Resources Corp. wants to put a gas well on Navajo
State Park in Colorado, near Navajo Lake
Plans for oil, gas and coalbed methane development in
northern New Mexico’s Valle Vidal have aroused the opposition
of environmentalists, ranchers, hunters, and the Boy
Scouts
Ruben Cobos’ new book, A Dictionary of New Mexico
and Southern Colorado Spanish, is an entertaining introduction to
the unique Spanish dialect spoken in the Southwest
The European-owned company LES wants to produce nuclear
fuel near Eunice, N.M., but has yet to come up with a plan for
storing the highly toxic, radioactive byproduct
Zuni Tribe member and law student Pablo Padilla helped
lead a triumphant fight against a coal strip mine planned near Zuni
Salt Lake in New Mexico, a site sacred to Native
Americans
A list of the wilderness inventory areas and
citizens’ wilderness proposal areas being offered for oil and
gas leasing by the BLM includes lands in New Mexico, Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah
In northwestern New Mexico, the Coalition for New Mexico
Wilderness is working with Zia Pueblo to preserve a rugged patch of
the state as the Ojito Wilderness Area
In Hispanic Albuquerque: 1706-1846,
Marc Simmons takes readers on a fascinating journey through the
history of the Duke City in New Mexico
$11 million is set aside for a nuclear trigger factory
that Carlsbad, N.M., is hoping to host; Yucca Mountain, Nev., gets
$580 million for nuclear waste storage; no extra water for the Rio
Grande silvery minnow; Pentagon wins exemptions to environmental
l
Local opposition caused a major cheesemaker, Glanbia Inc.,
to build a new cheese plant in Clovis, N.M., rather than expand its
Twin Falls, Idaho, plant– but the Idaho Legislature is making
it harder for citizens to fight against huge dairies
In Albuquerque: A City at the End of the
World, V. B. Price looks at the promise and the perils of
a desert city that is still in search of an identity
Santa Fe writer Alice Corbin’s Red Earth:
Poems of New Mexico, is republished in a beautifully
illustrated new edition
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PHILANTHROPY COORDINATOR Wyoming Wildlife Federation - collaborates with the Executive Director and staff to ensure the effective implementation of all philanthropic activities. https://wyomingwildlife.org/hiring-philanthropy-coordinator/.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 
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GRASSROOTS ORGANIZER
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JOHN DEERE SNOW BLOWER 24"
Newly refurbished and tuned. Older model, great condition. Gasoline engine. Chains on tires. Heavy duty for mountain snow. Call cellphone and leave message or email.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, KANIKSU LAND TRUST Kaniksu Land Trust, a community-supported non-profit land trust serving north Idaho and northwest Montana, is in search of a new executive director. The ideal candidate...
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Flathead Lakers are seeking a dynamic, self-motivated and proven leader to be our next Executive Director (ED).
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STAFF ATTORNEY, ALASKA
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR to lead an organization that funds projects in National Parks. Major gift fundraising and public lands experience critical. PD and app details @ peopleinparks.org.
