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Wild Wolf Captured Near Angel Fire
01.27.23 – Brady McGee, Mexican Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,…
Read MoreNM’s Legislative Environmental Priorities
01.19.23 – Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus speaks with State Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa…
Read MoreTracking the Rio Grande’s Snowpack
01.13.23 – In conversation with Our Land’s Laura Paskus, Angus Goodbody, a hydrologist with Water…
Read MoreWhat We Gain When We Protect Special Places
12.23.22 – When discussing the protection of special places or landscapes, we talk a lot…
Read MoreProtecting Chaco requires a commitment from ‘all levels’
12.23.22 – For more than a decade, a coalition of Indigenous and environmental groups, along…
Read MoreWhat We Learned About Water in 2022
12.23.2022 – Stacy Timmons, Associate Director of Hydrogeology Programs at the New Mexico Bureau of…
Read MoreUpending the West’s Water Narratives
12.23.2022 – Andrew Curley is a professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Geography,…
Read MoreClimate Change Impacts Hit Home for NMPBS
12.23.2022 – This summer, the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire destroyed hundreds of homes in northern…
Read MoreNM is ‘Losing the War’ on Climate, Fire & Flood
12.23.2022 – Across the West, communities are unprepared for wildfires and their full impact. Collin…
Read MoreNew Task Force Targets Environmental Crimes
12.09.22 – The New Mexico Environment Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have launched…
Read MoreBeyond the Park: Industrialization of the Greater Chaco Landscape
12.02.22 – A portion of the Greater Chaco Landscape is protected within Chaco Culture National…
Read MoreCelebrating Albuquerque’s Bosque
11.26.2022 – This holiday weekend, we show our appreciation for one of New Mexico’s greatest…
Read MoreRadon Daughter Art Exhibit Reflects New Mexico’s Uranium Legacy
11.25.2022 – De Haven Solimon Chaffins grew up living with her grandparents on the Laguna…
Read MoreUkraine War Makes it Harder to be a Nuclear ‘Dove’
11.11.2022 – The nonprofit Los Alamos Study Group has been tracking projects and plans at…
Read More‘Status Quo’ Reigns When it Comes to Chaco Protections
10.21.2022 – On the eastern Navajo Nation, oil and gas development has affected the land,…
Read MoreWithout Rights, NM’s Rivers Can Come Up Empty
10.14.22 –In New Mexico, rivers lack rights to their own waters, which mean that when…
Read MoreProtecting Chaco Requires Commitment From ‘All Levels’
10.07.22 – For more than a decade, a coalition of indigenous and environmental groups, along…
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Our 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…
Read MoreClovis City Water Tests Find Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Linked to Cannon Air Force Base
By Laura Paskus New tests by Clovis’ water utility show toxic chemicals associated with groundwater…
Read MoreOur Land: Water Expert John Fleck and the Colorado River
January 10, 2020 – In this month’s installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus…
Read MoreOur Land: At the Border
December 13, 2019 – Along the U.S./Mexico border in southern New Mexico, there isn’t a…
Read MoreOur Land Reprise: Backyard Wildlife Sanctuaries
November 29, 2019 – In a repeat of another “Our Land” favorite, correspondent Laura Paskus…
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