Mogote Hill Fire burns 3,000 acres north of Las Vegas
Mora County and San Miguel County fire crews are working to control a grass fire, north of Las Vegas, near the Fort Union ...
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Court bars Terrero landowners from blocking access to the Pecos River
The Pecos has been caught between landowners who say they want to protect their properties and would-be recreationists.
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Land commissioner hopes mining ban on state lands in Upper Pecos spurs federal action
The action removes 2,500 acres from mining development but leaves much of the largely federally owned watershed unprotected.
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Advocates for protecting the Pecos watershed from mining worried after public meeting is postponed
Mar. 3—PECOS — Advocates are worried about a federal proposal to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining for the next 20 years after the Bureau of Land Management postponed a public ...
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Biden-era Pecos River protections uncertain with new president
when contamination from a closed mine leeched into the Pecos River, killing fish several miles from the spill, tainting water supplies and costing millions of dollars to clean up. Ralph Vigil ...
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Pecos Pupfish Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...