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The Line: Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke

NMiF: The Line Panel - national monuments

August 4, 2017 – The secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, Ryan Zinke, was in New Mexico recently to look at the state’s two newest national monuments that are under review.  He also explored the Sabinoso Wilderness with Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall.  Did the secretary get a balanced picture of what the…

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Beyond the concepts of ‘land management’ are real people, sacrifice

NMiF: Thompson Ridge Fire (Our Land)

By: Laura Paskus On the edge of the Valle Grande in northern New Mexico stands a grove of towering ponderosa pines. The trees, many of them between 250 and 400 years old, comprise what’s called the History Grove, and they offer a snapshot into what the forests of the Jemez Mountains looked like centuries ago—before…

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