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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

Posts Tagged endangered species

Enviro group sues to protect endangered species

By | 05.04.10 | 9:26 am

At the end of April, the Center for Biological Diversity announced it plans to sue the Forest Service for not protecting rare species on lands throughout Arizona and New Mexico. The group says the Forest Service has continued to approve projects that destroy endangered species and their habitat without doing required monitoring.

Illegal shooting No. 1 reason for loss of critically endangered Mexican gray wolves

By | 02.06.09 | 2:49 pm

Photo by Tim Carter
Photo by Tim Carter

Illegal shooting is responsible for the stagnating numbers of endangered Mexican gray wolves in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest and land in Arizona, reveals…

Lynx one step closer to endangered species protection

By | 12.19.08 | 12:02 pm

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that it has begun the process of offering endangered species protection to the Canada lynx, a big furry cat that is protected in other states. As NMI has noted, the…

Wild cat, wily rodent may get endangered species protection

By | 12.03.08 | 4:47 pm

If you came across a Canada lynx while taking out the trash one night, you would not mistake it for a stray cat. The Canada lynx is a ferocious-looking, wildly furry creature bigger than a bobcat, standing about two…