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| Important Las Cruces City Council Meeting—Monday, August 18th | |
| Last night, the Albuquerque City Council voted unanimously to approve a resolution supporting the 1872 Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007. | |
| At Monday’s City Council meeting, Councilors will consider legislation to reform the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF), create new water conservation and efficiency standards and a resolution supporting national toxic mining reform. | |
| On January 24, Governor Richardson issued an executive order imposing a six month moratorium on drilling in Santa Fe county and the Galisteo Basin. The moratorium is intended to allow state agencies more time to assess the impacts of oil and gas drilling in the basin. | |
| Although still in the planning stages, the Rio Grande Trail will provide hundreds of miles of new trail to hikers, bikers and joggers. Trail-related recreation is the most popular outdoor activity in the state with 41 percent of New Mexicans participating in some form of trail activity every year. | |
| Mining, logging and oil/gas drilling in New Mexico’s national forests jeopardizes $807.6 million per year in New Mexican business from transportation, lodging, equipment and licenses for activities such as fishing, hunting and wildlife watching, according to a new report released today by Environment New Mexico Research and Policy Center. | |
| The third annual Gila River Festival will be taking place September 13-16, 2007 in Silver City, New Mexico. | |
| The New Mexico conservation community applauded Governor Richardson today for his veto late yesterday of an appropriation in House Bill 2 that posed a threat to the Gila River. The item was $945,000 for Gila basin water development, in an appropriation to the Office of the State Engineer. | |
| Judge Elizabeth Laporte of the Northern District of California today overturned the Bush administration’s repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protects nearly 60 million acres of pristine national forest lands in 42 states. | |
| NMPIRG applauded Gov. Richardson for filing a petition today with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, seeking immediate, full and lasting protection for more than nine million acres of unspoiled forest land in the Carson, Cibola, Gila, Lincoln, and Santa Fe National Forests. | |
| On the final day of the public comment period on the Bush administration’s proposal to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, NMPIRG, National Environmental Trust, Heritage Forests Campaign and the New Mexico Wildlife Federation released a report documenting the clean drinking water, recreation and wildlife habitat benefits of roadless areas in America’s National Forests. | |