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

Articulating The County's Support Of The Rio Grande As A Free Flowing River; And Directing The County Utilities Department To Create A New Mechanism On County Water Bills To Enable Residents To Provide Financial Support To Buy Water Rights For Rio Grande
Contact: Los Alamos County

Most Rio Grande water now goes to irrigate alfalfa crops - The river needs its own in-stream water rights
Contact: Santa Fe New Mexican

WildEarth Guardians, urging Los Alamos County to purchase water rights that would help maintain water levels in the Rio Grande, has asked the county council to add a voluntary $1 check-off box on monthly utility bills
Contact: Darryl Newman Los Alamos Monitor

The Yates Petroleum Corporation has withdrawn its application to drill two additional natural gas wells in the Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Roswell, citing environmental concerns and the high cost of drilling
Contact: Christopher Cunningham Roswell Daily Record

Tree cutting and burning on nearly 2,000 acres adjacent to the Santa Fe Watershed and along Hyde Park Road is opposed by a coalition of local citizens and conservation groups
Contact: Wild Watershed

Yates Petroleum Corp. has withdrawn its bid to drill two new natural gas wells in an eastern New Mexico wildlife refuge after several groups raised environmental concerns
Contact: Tania Soussan Albuquerque Journal

Remote Colorado and Kansas Grasslands are Test-Case for Dangerous New Policy
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

WildEarth Guardians has developed, with the evidence and advice of scientists, organizations, and citizens, this Sustainable Use Conservation Alternative for the Comanche and Cimarron National Grasslands Land Management Plan revision process

The WildEarth Guardians goal is to have a constant flow in the river to protect endangered species
Contact: Staci Matlock The New Mexican

The coalition asked a federal judge to declare that Fish and Wildlife violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to make a determination on critical habitat and to order the agency to make a decision
Contact: Albuquerque Journal