Posts by Myah Wilmarth
Already ‘baked in,’ NM’s water challenges loom large on the political landscape
Laura Paskus New Mexico officials know that continued warming is drying out the state’s rivers, farmlands, forests, and reservoirs. And while there are plans to address some of those challenges, state water experts say they lack resources to implement changes. This summer, more than 30 miles of the Middle Rio Grande dried. Farmers in that region, as well…
Read MoreCelebrating Joy Harjo, Our Lands Revisited, and UNM Football Player Teton Saltes Makes His Mark
This week on New Mexico in Focus, we celebrate Joy Harjo, a groundbreaking poet and New Mexico treasure. An enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma, Harjo went to school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and was both a student and faculty member at UNM. Earlier this year,…
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