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Our Land: Midterm Elections And The Environment
October 12, 2018 — Clean air and water are important to everyone, no matter where…
Read MoreMaking Crossings Safe For Wildlife And Drivers
September 14, 2018 – If you’ve ever white-knuckled it through a canyon or overpass, hoping…
Read MoreOur Land: Replanting Trees In The Jemez Mountains
August 10, 2018 – When the Las Conchas wildfire burned more than 150,000 acres of…
Read MoreOur Land: Project Feed The Hood
July 13, 2018 – Project Feed the Hood is a food justice program in Albuquerque…
Read MoreOur Land: Jonathan Overpeck And Climate Change
May 11, 2018 – Scientist Jonathan Overpeck has spent decades studying climate change and its…
Read MorePublic should be ready for the Rio Grande’s bad year
By: Laura Paskus As high winds whipped dust, Siberian elm seeds and recycling bins around…
Read MoreOur Land: It’s not just one dry year: What the Rio Grande’s low flows tell us about the future
April 13, 2018 – You might be surprised to see how low the Rio Grande…
Read MoreRio Grande Already Drying Out Near Socorro
by Laura Paskus In springtime, rivers are supposed to swell with snowmelt, filling their channels…
Read MoreEast Mountain water application spurs protests from residents, silence from State Engineer
By: Laura Paskus The tony neighborhoods tucked into the juniper-dotted grasslands on the east side…
Read MoreOur Land: Preparing Homes For Fire Season
March 8, 2018 – This month on Our Land, we visit with tree ring scientist…
Read MoreOur Land: Record Low Snowpack In New Mexico
February 9, 2018 – This month on “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and…
Read MoreOur Land: Bosque del Apache
January 12, 2018 – This month on “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and…
Read MoreIn Deep Water
US Supreme Court to decide how states share the drying Rio Grande, and New Mexico…
Read MoreJustices question lawyers from New Mexico, Colorado and Texas about feds’ role in water dispute
New Mexico hits the high court on the Rio Grande By Laura Paskus WASHINGTON, DC—On…
Read MoreStudents & Scientists Benefit From The Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program
December 8, 2017 – More than 20 years ago, Dan Shaw co-founded the Bosque Ecosystem…
Read MoreOur Land: Valle de Oro
November 10, 2017 – The Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in the South Valley…
Read MoreOur Land: Wells Going Dry In The East Mountains
October 13, 2017 – This month on “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and…
Read MoreOUR LAND: Pueblo of Santa Ana Works To Restore Habitat & Bring Back Wildlife
September 8, 2017 – This month Our Land highlights wildlife and habitat restoration on Santa Ana Pueblo. Already, the tribe…
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Cochiti Pueblo Opposes Bandelier Bill
January 8, 2021 – Public lands in New Mexico hold different meanings for different people,…
Read MoreNew Mexico’s Military Legacy & PFAS Contamination
December 25, 2020 – One of the other top stories of 2020 for us here…
Read MoreOur Land: Albuquerque’s Bosque
December 11, 2020 – In this month’s episode of Our Land, correspondent Laura Paskus travels…
Read MoreGroundwater War: Fort Wingate
November 13, 2020 – NMiF producer Matt Grubs talks with Our Land correspondent Laura Paskus…
Read MoreOur Land: Urban Forest Update
October 9, 2020 – This year’s hot, dry conditions highlight the need for New Mexicans…
Read MoreTribes, Power, and Water
Sept. 11, 2020 – In the western United States, rivers like the Colorado River and…
Read MoreAll We’ve Surveyed: Five Years After the Gold King Mine Spill
By Laura Paskus Five years ago, crews reopening an abandoned mine in the mountains of…
Read MoreThird Anniversary Interview and Our Land: Gila Diversion Decision
July 10, 2020 – NMiF host Gene Grant celebrates the third anniversary of the show’s monthly series Our Land…
Read MoreOur Land: Rio Grande Spring Flow and Climate Change
May 8, 2020 – On this month’s episode of Our Land, we look back to…
Read MoreOur Land: A Decent Winter Becomes a Lousy Spring on the Rio Grande
Two years ago, New Mexico’s largest river dried in April, right when the Rio Grande…
Read MoreOur Land: How Australia’s Bush Fires Might Inform New Mexico’s Upcoming Fire Season
April 10, 2020 – Our Land correspondent Laura Paskus sits down with Santa Fe National…
Read MoreEPA Rolls Back Regulations During Pandemic, Shifts Burden to States
As the country reels from the spread of the novel coronavirus, federal regulators say they…
Read MoreRoom to Move? Outdoor Recreation During the COVID-19 Emergency
This week, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a public health order mandating that New Mexicans…
Read MorePentagon IDs Four More NM Sites at Risk of PFAS Contamination
The Pentagon has identified four more military sites in New Mexico that could be contaminating…
Read MoreOur Land: Cochiti Pueblo Opposes National Monument Expansion
March 13, 2020 – On a recent episode of Our Land, we talked about public…
Read MoreOur Land: Public Lands from Mountains to Monuments – New Mexico’s Public Lands
February 21, 2020 – More than a third of New Mexico is public land meant…
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