I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman introduced the El Río Grande Del Norte National Conservation Area Establishment Act on Thursday, a bill which would designate more than 235,000 acres of land in northern New Mexico as a conservation area or wilderness. New Mexico’s junior senator, Tom Udall, is a cosponsor of the bill.
“This bill would protect the valuable natural and cultural resources found in the area while also recognizing that the history of these lands is still being written by the local community,” said Bingaman in a statement.
Under the bill, most of the land — 214,560 acres — would be maintained as a conservation area. But two other areas (the 13,420-acre Cerro del Yuta on the east-side and the 8,000-acre Río San Antonio in the west) would be manged as wilderness.
“I am pleased to be joining Senator Bingaman in introducing legislation to make these unique and historic landscapes in Taos and Rio Arriba counties available and accessible for the benefit of generations of New Mexicans to come,” said Udall. Udall represented this area as a member of the House of Representatives before becoming a senator earlier this year.
The bill will be referred to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the committee Bingaman chairs.
