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Lawsuit claims oil boom imperils national park in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Environmentalists say U.S. land managers violated environmental laws and their own regulations when issuing dozens of leases to drill in one of the nation’s busiest oilfields. ...

DATE: Jun 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. officials to put off oil leases near Chaco Culture National Historical Park

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that Native Americans consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Hi...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business

U.S. officials to put off oil leases near sacred tribal land

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that Native Americans consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Hi...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Endangered Mexican wolves blamed for more livestock kills

ALBUQUERQUE â€“ Mexican gray wolves have been blamed for killing nearly as many cows and calves in the first four months of 2019 as they did all of last year. Federal wildlife man...

DATE: May 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico forest restoration faces challenge

ALBUQUERQUE – A proposed effort to restore a wide swath of national forest land in southern New Mexico over the next decade or two is drawing fire from environmentalists who say the U.S. gov...

DATE: May 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

New Mexico land boss concerned about border wall work

ALBUQUERQUE – The head of one of New Mexico’s most powerful statewide offices is raising concerns about the lack of an environmental review as the U.S. government prepares to replace fencing...

DATE: May 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico utility says it will be emissions-free by 2040

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s largest electric provider set a goal Monday aimed at going emissions-free as early as 2040, winning praise from the state’s top Democratic leaders and environmenta...

DATE: Apr 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Boy Scout ranch focuses on wildfire recovery

ALBUQUERQUE – Tucked away in the foothills of the southern Rockies, the Philmont Scout Ranch has become a holy grail, its stretches of untamed wilderness and challenging backcountry treks dr...

DATE: Apr 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

More Mexican gray wolves roaming Southwest, researchers say

ALBUQUERQUE – More Mexican gray wolves are roaming the American Southwest now than at any time since federal biologists began reintroducing the predators more than two decades ago, the U.S. ...

DATE: Apr 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Push renewed to elevate White Sands to national park status

ALBUQUERQUE – The push to elevate a vast expanse of shifting white sand dunes in New Mexico to national park status was renewed Tuesday as members of the state’s congressional delegation rei...

DATE: Mar 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Tribes ask U.S. managers to defer lease sale around Chaco

BLM plans sale for Thursday

DATE: Mar 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico game commissioners asked to resign

ALBUQUERQUE – Members of an influential commission that governs hunting, fishing and other wildlife management activities across New Mexico have been asked to resign, Gov. Michelle Lujan Gri...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News