Climate change is fast reducing the flow of the Rio Grande. State and federal regulations do not keep up with alarming changes in the river.
Tag: Public lands
Chaco Canyon and the Halls of Time
The Chaco great houses are huge, complex buildings with exquisite masonry. The more we learn about them, the less we seem to know about the people who built them.
Firefighter Shortage Threatens the West
According to the Forest Service, 45% of their permanent firefighting workforce has quit in the last three years.
Killing Eagles in the Jemez Mountains
In an unusual chain of events, the Pueblo of Jemez, a Native American community in Sandoval County, New Mexico, was granted a permit to kill one eagle on the Valles …
Time for More Prescribed Fire
Despite recent prescribed fire escapes, we need to ramp up prescribed burning in northern New Mexico and treat many more acres before another dry windy spring causes problems.
Is Wildland Firefighting a Waste of Tax Dollars?
In 2023 when megafires erupt across North America, and our national forests seem trapped in an escalating yet faltering war on wildfire, it might be good to look back …
Biden Focuses on Western Fire Issues
The United States has a vast area of public forest that needs to burn. Wildfires chip away at these hundreds of millions of acres of decadent forest every year. …
Fixing the Valles Caldera National Preserve
Today we have a guest editorial from a former National Park Service employee who talks about the management problems at the Valles Caldera. This matters because the VCNP is one …
What is a “Natural” Forest?
A friend told me he wanted to have the forests of northern New Mexico left “natural”. I heard the same from other people who are not happy about the Forest …
A Last Ski at Wolf Creek
(This post was written earlier before things got really busy around here.) Mid-April found me on the chairlifts at Wolf Creek Pass ski area on one of the last days …
