Current work in wildlife, rivers, public lands, and climate

Press Releases

Jul 25, 2022

Advocates push for additional support for New Mexico’s Strategic Water Reserve

Groups call on state leaders to prepare for unprecedented water challenges by readying tools for climate resilience

Rivers

#LivingRio, #LivingRivers, #PressStatement, #RethinkRivers, #ReviveTheRio, #RioGrande

Apr 12, 2022

Downstream communities push for rejection of water export proposal in San Luis Valley

Groups call on Douglas County Commission to nix proposal to pipe groundwater to Colorado Front Range

Rivers

#LivingRio, #PressStatement, #RioGrande

Mar 8, 2022

Communities expecting another challenging year in the Rio Grande Basin

Plummeting streamflow complicated by nearly 100-year-old agreement

Rivers

#LivingRio, #LivingRivers, #PressStatement, #RethinkRivers, #ReviveTheRio, #RioGrande

Feb 28, 2022

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the peppered chub as endangered

Disappearing prairie fish and its habitat receive Endangered Species Act protections

Rivers, Wildlife

Feb 16, 2022

Rio Grande Basin forecast suggests another difficult water year ahead

Increasing aridification and intensifying impacts of climate change complicate situation

Rivers

#LivingRio, #LivingRivers, #PressStatement, #RioGrande

Dec 13, 2021

New report: 3 of 4 upper Colorado River basin states overusing Colorado River water

Shrinking Snowpacks in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado require states to cut their water use from Colorado River and its tributaries or risk ‘Call on the River’

Rivers

#CORiver, #PressStatement, #ProtectWhatYouLove, #RethinkRivers

Nov 22, 2021

Coalition urges federal agency to appropriately evaluate water pipeline project

The project will impact the lower Santa Fe River, which flows into the Rio Grande

Rivers

Nov 15, 2021

Comments and questions needed on Santa Fe pipeline project

Project expected to reduce flows in the lower Santa Fe River by up to 50%

Rivers

#LivingRivers, #PressStatement

Oct 20, 2021

Living rivers vital to New Mexico’s 50-year water planning effort

Plan currently falls short in analyzing the effects of climate change on the ecological health of waterways, imperiled species, and recreational economy

Rivers

#LivingRio, #LivingRivers, #PressStatement, #RethinkRivers, #ReviveTheRio, #RioGrande

Oct 18, 2021

Endangered status removed from imperiled Colorado River fish

Crisis looms large for the basin due to climate change and unsustainable use

Rivers, Wildlife

#CORiver, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #ProtectWhatYouLove, #RethinkRivers, #StopExtinction