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 ...

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 ...