A two-year process to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining started by former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in ...

The U.S. Forest Service has reversed a December recommendation to ban mineral mining in 165,000 acres in the Upper Pecos — a ...

The Trump administration has walked back a proposed withdrawal of the Upper Pecos watershed from mining development. An April 4 news release published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the ...

Apr. 8—A two-year process to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining started by former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in December will be halted without fanfare by the Trump administration.

Members of New Mexico's federal delegation on April 8, 2025 announced the reintroduction of a bill to protect the Pecos watershed from mining (photo courtesy Ralph Vigil) Four Democratic members ...

A USDA spokesperson in an emailed statement identified those cancellations as the proposed Upper Pecos River watershed mining ban, as well as one in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains, and that the ...

The Biden administration enacted protections, which were supposed to last 20 years, for areas at the request of Native ...

The Trump administration has walked back a proposed withdrawal of the Upper Pecos watershed from mining development. An April 4 news release published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture said ...

The state's Senate and House Democrats floated a bill to protect thousands of acres from mining after the administration ...