Conservationists hoped Biden-era mining restrictions for the upper Pecos would be extended. That seems uncertain now.
The action removes 2,500 acres from mining development but leaves much of the largely federally owned watershed unprotected.
Mar. 3—PECOS — Advocates are worried about a federal proposal to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining for the next 20 years after the Bureau of Land Management postponed a public ...
The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...
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