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There Must Be Other Names for the River

Low view of four people in facemasks talking to each over in a woodsy area.

April 9, 2021 – A new exhibit at the University of New Mexico Art Museum looks at the changing Rio Grande. Taking the concept of “deep time,” creators Marisa Demarco, Dylan McLaughlin, and Jessica Zeglin set the river’s history to song. They looked at the river’s five-million-year-long geological history and took decades’ worth of U.S.…

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The Rio Grande’s Drier Future

Elephant Butte during the day.

April 9, 2021 – As the climate warms, arid regions like New Mexico will continue to become increasingly dry. That affects our snowpack—and everything downstream, including our forests, rivers, reservoirs, and farm fields. On this month’s episode of Our Land, we visit Elephant Butte Reservoir in southern New Mexico, which was at 10 percent capacity…

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