Recently, the Donald Trump administration ordered that all wildland fires be extinguished regardless of where they are or what started them. Like his other land management ideas, this one is …
Category: land management
Forest Service Faces Existential Threat from Trump Admin
OMB Director Russel Vought is closing all the USFS’ nine regional offices, closing 55 research offices that focus on fire and watersheds, and they plan to move the USFS headquarters from Washington DC to Salt Lake City on short notice.
Trump Appointees may Interfere in Caldera Trespass Cattle Problem
Trespass livestock grazing on the Valles Caldera National Preserve is part of a larger problem of overgrazing on public lands and powerful ranchers dominating public land politics.
Trump’s People Weaken Public Land Grazing Regulations
The Trump regime recently made sweeping changes to the way livestock grazing is regulated on public lands. Their changes would cause damage to public lands, public watersheds, and to wildlife. …
Protect what is wild before we lose these lands for good
This is a guest column which is well worth reading. By SOREN JESPERSEN Public lands are the backbone of the Western Slope. They supply our drinking water, sustain our wildlife …
Saving the Parks from Anti-Government Extremists
Yet Trump’s staff continues to dismantle our system of federal lands in direct conflict with the wishes of most Americas according to numerous polls.
New Mexico’s Big Fires and Climate Change
We just emerged from one of the driest winters on record in New Mexico and as the usual spring winds sweep the state, fire officials watch the situation closely and …
Trump Begins Big Attack on Interior Department
In the chaotic first 100 days on the second Trump administration, public lands agencies have mostly been spared from cuts and firings affecting other federal agencies. Now the top levels …
Jemez Pueblo and the Valles Caldera National Preserve
The Valles Caldera National Preserve is a ninety-thousand-acre experiment in democracy and self-governance. This beautiful and complicated high-country landscape has deep intrinsic value of its wildlife, plants and waters. When …
Stop Firing our Rangers
The national parks in New Mexico and beyond are facing a growing crisis because of the Trump administration’s mass firings of federal employees. The first round of firings of rangers …
