By Geoffrey Plant | Silver City Daily PressMay 13, 2020U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced Tuesday that legislation to protect 450 miles of the Gila River system under the 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act was introduced in the Senate late last week.Members of the agricultural community and some private landowners along the river, […]
Everyone has a river story. A favorite story of mine is when my dad took our family on a rafting trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon when I was a teenager, in 1967. At that time, there was a proposal to dam the river in the canyon, flooding it for 27 miles. […]
New Mexico Outdoor Economics Conference Welcomes More than 150 Participants to Las Cruces Speakers from Seven States and Across New Mexico Convene to Discuss Innovative Strategies to Grow the State’s Outdoor Recreation Economy CONTACT: Nathan Small, New Mexico Wild (484) 639-4534 | nathansmall@nmwild.org Carrie Hamblen, Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce (575) 323-1575 | carrie@locallascruces.com […]
Recognizing the Special Values of the Gila Headwaters and Calling for Its Permanent Protection as Wild and Scenic It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or […]