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‘We don’t jump the Bootheel’

May 28, 2024
Two firefighters walk through a smoky forest, wearing protective gear and carrying tools. The firefighter in the foreground has a red helmet and sunglasses, while the other carries a hose ready to spray water at any hot spots.

On May 24, 2021, a campfire blew up along the U.S.-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. It was burning on the Diamond A Ranch, private land in the rugged Animas Mountains.  For more than two decades, people let fires burn there. But in 2021, the strategy was for full suppression. More than two seasons had passed…

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Recalibrating

May 21, 2024
A serene landscape shows a field with a partially frozen pond at sunset, water glistening in the fading light, surrounded by silhouetted trees and distant hills under a clear sky.

Things have been a bit hectic at NMPBS lately, so I’m filling in on New Mexico in Focus this week with an Our Land special focused on different ways of knowing our landscapes.  The show’s anchor is our documentary, “Ancestral Connections,” about the Pueblo of Santa Ana and Tamaya Kwii Kee Nee Puu, but we…

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