New Mexico’s commissioner of public lands banned mining on state land in the Upper Pecos Watershed, a move meant to pressure ...

An executive order banning mineral mining on approximately 2,500 acres of state trust land in the Upper Pecos Watershed will ...

Advocates are worried about a federal proposal to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining for the next 20 years after ...

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.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has initiated a two-year segregation period for the upper Pecos Watershed in Santa Fe. This move protects about 165,000 acres ...

highlighting the importance of community involvement in environmental conservation of the Pecos Watershed,” reads a press ...

The Center for Biological Diversity just released profiles on 10 national monuments and other protected public lands and ...

Mar. 12—SANTA FE — New Mexico's commissioner of public lands banned mining on state land in the Upper Pecos Watershed, a move meant to pressure the federal government to follow through on ...