The rivers are running awfully low for this time of year. The norm has been for the Animas River through Durango to be peaking around now. It was a warm, dry winter and spring. That alone doesn’t mean much; droughts have been occurring forever. Perhaps this is just another hot spell.
Dan Randolph is interim director of the San Juan Citizens Alliance. Reach him at
dan@sanjuancitizens.org
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A public meeting Friday in Pagosa Springs concerns the proposal to make the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area a national monument. The meeting will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the Archuleta Fairgrounds.
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Nutrients: “A substance that provides nourishment for growth or metabolism,” according to Dictionary.com.
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A few weeks ago, there was widespread attention to a report by a coalition of community groups that analyzed electricity rates, profits and energy priorities at PNM, New Mexico’s largest utility and owner of the San Juan Generating Station coal plant near Farmington.
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Roadless. In today’s world, with our lives centered in most aspects on the network of roads, roadless has physical as well as figurative connotations. It can imply aimless, wild, unmapped and even wasted.
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Public service, working for the public as an employee of the government, should be seen as an honorable and important role for anyone.
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The San Juan Generating Station is a massive coal-fired power plant owned primarily by Public Service Co. of New Mexico, or PNM. The plant is located in northwestern New Mexico near the town of Waterflow, less than 15 miles from the Four Corners coal-fired plant on the Navajo Nation.
