SANTA FE — New Mexico's commissioner of public lands banned mining on state land in the Upper Pecos Watershed, a move meant to pressure the federal government to follow through on similar protections ...

The Upper Pecos is under “attack,” according to State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard. On Wednesday, just a day after the state House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for long ...

Ralph Vigil, an acequia parciante and organizer for NM Wild, was in junior high school during the spill. He recalls being warned about eating fish from the river and swimming in the water.

Advocates are worried about a federal proposal to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining for the next 20 years after the Bureau of Land Management postponed a public meeting meant to collect ...

Ralph Vigil, northern organizer for the nonprofit New Mexico Wild, said the classification will protect traditional community water uses and safeguard waterways from the degradation new uses often ...

The Upper Pecos watershed has been through a lot in recent years; it’s been “getting beat up for some time,” Pecos farmer and acequia parciante Ralph Vigil told the committee. In the 1990s ...