Today, the Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) unanimously approved both Outstanding National Resource Water (ONRW) petitions presented to it. These petitions called for the protection of the Upper Pecos Watershed, and portions of the Jemez, Hondo and Upper Rio Grande. ONRW is the most protective water quality designation under the federal Clean Water Act.
Senator Brenda McKenna co-sponsored SB 32, known as Roxy’s Law or the Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety Act, culminating a decades-long effort to ban traps, snares, and poisons on public lands except under certain limited circumstances (passed and signed).
Roz Brown | Public News Service SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico environmental advocates say the state took a step forward during the 2019 legislative…
Governor Lujan Grisham has signed the bill to create an Outdoor Recreation Division and Outdoor Equity Fund (SB 462). The equity fund is the first…
The Land and Water Conservation Fund has protected public places in every state, but it’s about to expire. Tell Congress to fully fund the preservation…
New Mexico is famously paintable. Our rich cultural history and beautiful landscapes have been drawing artists here for generations. Support Local Artists and Conservation Voters…
America’s most important conservation and recreation program will expire in less than a year unless Congress acts. For 52 years, the Land and Water Conservation…
Published in the Las Cruces Sun-News Community snapshot: Conservation Voters New Mexico presented Sen. Jeff Steinborn with the 2018 Luminaria Award for promoting and protecting the natural…
By Heath Haussamen | NMPolitics.net U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending no reduction in the size of two New Mexico national monuments, but he is…
By Andrew Oxford | Santa Fe New Mexican A leaked Interior Department memo on the future of several major national monuments around the country surprised…
