Land commissioner hopes mining ban on state lands in Upper Pecos spurs federal action
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 ...
State land commissioner bans mining in Upper Pecos Watershed
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 ...
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NM designates 250 miles as 'Outstanding National Resource Waters'
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 ...
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Advocates for protecting the Pecos watershed from mining worried after public meeting is postponed
who have been doing their own work behind the scenes to say that this place is special to them as well," said Ralph Vigil, a northern organizer for NM Wild and a Pecos farmer. BLM postponed the ...
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House measure would support mining, mineral leasing halt in Upper Pecos watershed
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 ...