FROM THE OFFICE OF THE LAND COMMISSIONER Legislation to protect the federal lands in the Upper Pecos Watershed from future ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

As part of the directive, the agency also canceled plans to withdraw about 165,000 acres of public land in New Mexico’s Upper ...

The U.S. Forest Service said the decision to allow oil and gas leasing to continue in the Ruby Mountains was due to a ...

Water quality in the Pecos River has been a top concern of many residents as they wait to see whether a two-year hiatus on new mining claims in the Upper Pecos watershed announced in the waning days ...

"This expansion will allow the National Parks Service to conserve the ecosystem along the Terlingua watershed for years to come," Luján said. Gonzales called the new bill an improvement to the ...