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December 2011

La Jicarita News: A Retrospective

ANNOUNCEMENTS

August/September 2011

A Change is Going to Come By Kay Mtthews and David Correia

Tierra Amarilla Land Grant Board "Waives mineral rights it doesn't have" in Controversial Deal with Oil Company By David Correia

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Acequias de las Sierras: La Jicarita Transbasin Diversions Dating from the 1800s By Kay Matthews

Vallecitos Area Grazing Associations Prepare to File Suit Against Forest Service

Lower Rio Grande Adjudication Update

June/July 2011

Facts on the Ground: An Interview About Palestine with Journalist Jakob Schiller Photos by Jakob Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Is Another Devastating Fire Enough to Make Them Rethink the Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility? By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Acequia Blues By Kay Matthews

April/May 2011

Just Say No to the Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement Project By Kay Matthews

Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group is Retiring By Sheri Kotowski, Lead Organizer

Upper Rio Grande Adjudication: Boyd Estate Water Claims

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit: From Agropastoralism to Sustained Yield Forestry By David Correia

Rumblings on the El Rito Ranger District: More Grazing Reductions By Kay Matthews

The Never Ending Aamodt "Unsettlement" By Kay Matthews

February/March 2011

Taos County Public Welfare Committee Meets for the First Time By Kay Matthews

Book Review: Down Country, The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782 By Lucy Lippard, Museum of New Mexico Press Reviewed by Kay Matthews

Update on Lower Rio Grande Adjudication By Kay Matthews

Los Alamos National Laboratory Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Peñasco's SPOT OfficeReceives Grant to Continue its Good Work

Editorial: Power in the Middle East By Kay Matthews

Thinning Project in Las Trampas Watershed By Kay Matthews

January 2011

Mark Schiller, 1948 to 2010: My Co-Editor and Comrade in Arms By Kay Matthews

A Tribute to Mark Schiller: By Malcolm Ebright, Center for Land Grant Studies  

A Community Organizer: By Jake Kosek, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

ANNOUNCEMENTS

On the Muckraking of Mark Schiller: A Retrospective By David Correia, Visiting Professor, American Studies, University of New Mexico

October/November 2010

Taos County Commission Approves Public Welfare Ordinance By Kay Matthews  

Editorial: Midterm Dysfunction By Kay Matthews

Carson National Forest Takes a More Conservative Approach to Broadcast Burn Near El Valle By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Never Ending Vigilance By Kay Matthews

September 2010

Interview With Joe Gutierrez, Former LANL Employee

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance Position Paper on the Aamodt Proposed Settlement By Kay Matthews

August 2010

Meanwhile, down on the Farm . . .

Los Alamos Revisited, Part Two By Peter Malmgren

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Scott Boyd's Letter to New Mexico State Legislators: We May Have the Opportunity To Manage the Rio Grande Equitably This Time Around

The Guadalupita/Coyote Historic District and Preservation of Our Communities in Northern New Mexico By Malcolm Ebright

July 2010

A Wake-Up Call in Mora and San Miguel Counties By Pat Leahan, Co-Director, Las Vegas Peace & Justice Center

Surveyor General George W. Julian: A Summary of Findings By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Aamodt Update

Lower Rio Grande Adjudication Update

Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building Replacement Update

Santa Fe's Amigos del Parque Celebrates Ninth Anniversary By David Correia

 

June 2010

Celebrando Las Acequias: Past, Present, and Future

Cañada de Cochiti: The Chicanery of Reducing a Legitimate Land Grant By Mark Schiller

Action Alert

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Update on the Lower Rio Grande Adjudication By Kay Matthews

Rio Arriba County Institutes Moratorium on Development of Agricultural Lands By Kay Matthews

May 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Deconstructing the U.S. Forest Service, Literally and Figuratively By Kay Matthews

Surveyor General George W. Julian and the Presumption of Communal Property By Mark Schiller

April 2010

Surveyor General George W. Julian: Reformer or Colonial Bureaucrat? By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hearings on Hazardous Waste Permit for LANL Ongoing By Kay Matthews

Lower Rio Grande Adjudication Hearing on April 8 By Kay Matthews

March 2010

Interview with Michael Wolfson on the Canadian National Health Plan By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Aamodt Continues to Raise Questions By Kay Matthews

Update on Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 By Kay Matthews

Proposed Taos Area Acequia Water Transfer is Denied and Appealed  

February 2010

Los Alamos National Laboratory: "The Unleashed Power of the Atom" By Kay Matthews  

Center for Disease and Prevention Control Meets With New Mexico Community on Los Alamos National Laboratory Contaminant Releases By Basia Miller, Joni Arends, and Kay Matthews

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 5: Racism and the New Mexico Territory By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Los Alamos Revisited By Peter Malmgren

January 2010

A Look Back By Kay Matthews  

A Look at the History of the Mother of All Water Rights Court Cases By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

A Brief History of American Imperialism: Part 4: Implementing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo By Mark Schiller

December 09

The Mother of All Water Rights Court Cases By Kay Matthews

Aamodt Settlement Update, Otra Vez By Kay Matthews

Sampling in the Rio Embudo Watershed By Sheri Kotowski

Mora County Gas and Development Update

ANNOUNCEMENTS

American Imperialism, Part 3: The Mexican- American War By Mark Schiller

Congratulations Las Mujeras Hablan

November 09

Editorial: Proposed Aamodt Settlement Continues to Unsettle By Kay Matthews  

Editorial: Valles Caldera Experiment Near Expiration By Kay Matthews

Appeal Peters Out: An Update on Las Acequias de Chupadero By David Correia and Eric Perramond

ANNOUNCEMENTS

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 2: Manifest Destiny: Its Theoretical and Legal Underpinnings By Mark Schiller

Carson National Forest Continues to Assert its Authority Over Area Acequias By Kay Matthews

October 09

Poor Chupadero, so far from God, so close to Santa Fe By David Correia and Eric Perramond

Los Alamos National Laboratory Update By Joni Arends, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, and Sheri Kotowski, Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group  

Aamodt and Abeyta Water Settlement Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

LETTERS

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 1 By Mark Schiller

September 09

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

New Mexico's Anti-Union Union By David Correia

Harvesting the Hoop House

Potential Hazards of Chemicals Used in Natural Gas Drilling Process By Kay Matthews

Editorial: The Medical Industrial Complex By Kay Matthews

News Updates

August 09

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hazardous Waste Permit for Our Up Wind Neighbor, Los Alamos National Laboratory By Sheri Kotowski, Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group and Joni Arends, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety

Editorial: Taos County Rejects Plan for "Second Homes for the Wealthy" By Kay Matthews  

Forest Service Releases Proposed Action for Travel Management on the Carson National Forest By Kay Matthews

Plan to Pay Sick Nuclear Workers Unfairly Rejects Many, Doctor Says By Laura Frank, Special to ProPublica - July 31, 2009

July 09

Embudo's Clovis Romero Named "Farmer of the Year" By Mark Schiller

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Finally Releases Historic Contaminant Report for Los Alamos National Laboratory By Kay Matthews

Mora Citizens Turn Out In Force at County Commission Meeting on Oil and Gas Development By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Rio Arriba County Developments and Subdivisions: Second Homes for the Wealthy, Assuming There's Any Wealth Left By Kay Matthews

Acequias de la Sierra By Mark Schiller

May/June 09

Erecting the Hoop House

Announcements

Editorial: To Zone or Not To Zone, That is Peñasco's Question By Kay Matthews

Air Monitoring in El Valle

La Jicarita News Awarded Grant

Taos Regional Water Plan, Implementation Phase (We Hope) By Kay Matthews

Mora County Residents Gear Up to Fight Oil and Gas Drilling By Kay Matthews

Miranda Canyon Preserve Goes Before Taos County Planning Commission By Kay Matthews

April 09

Acequias Confront Forest Service Over Access Rights By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews  

Senators Mark Udall and Tom Udall Sponsor Bill to Reform EEOICPA By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group Sponsors Listening Session with New Mexico Environment Department By Kay Matthews

Citizen Groups Appeal EPA Stormwater Permit for Los Alamos National Laboratory By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Disaster Capitalism, Full Circle By Kay Matthews

March 09

Carson National Forest Releases Plan for Managing Motorized Travel By Kay Matthews

Peñasco Area Communities Land Use Plan By Kay Matthews

LANL Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Opposes LANL Special Exposure Cohort Petition By Mark Schiller

Peñasco Farmer's Market By Kristen Davenport

February 09

Nuclear Workers Continue the Struggle for Compensation By Mark Schiller  

Editorial: Be Prepared to Pay More for Your Water, Assuming There Is Any By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Two Progressive Bills Work Their Way Through the Legislative Session By Kristina Fisher, Associate Director of Think New Mexico

Update on Placitas "Lomos Altos" Water Transfer Protest By Kay Matthews

Community Land Use Plans Being Developed as Additions to Taos County Land Use Plan

January 09

La Jicarita News Enters It's 14th Year With Renewed Determination to See a Mission Change at Los Alamos National Laboratory By Kay Matthews  

A Statewide Conversation on Industrial Wind Facilities By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Where oh Where is the Taos Regional Water Plan Now? By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Corrupt Surveyors General Contributed to Loss of Land Grants By Mark Schiller

December 08

Concerns About LANL Affects on "Downwinders" Aired at Picuris Pueblo Meeting By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Change We Can Believe In? By Mark Schiller

Miranda Canyon Preserve Update By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Uranium Boom and Bust "Otra Vez" By Kay Matthews

October/November 08

Editorial: Redistributing the Wealth By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Update on Miranda Canyon Preserve Proposal By Kay Matthews

Activism and the Local Nuclear Weapons Industry By Sheri Kotowski

Literary Radio Dreams By Deborah Begel

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Two Citizen Victories

The Hijuelas of Tierra Amarilla By David Correia

September 08

A River Used to Run Through It By Mark Schiller  

Water Update By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Review of Miranda Canyon Preserve by Wildlands Watch By Kay Matthews

Forest Update By Kay Matthews

Activism and the Local Nuclear Weapons Industry By Sheri Kotowski, Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group

August 08

La Sierra (Taylor Ranch) Management Plan About to be Released By Mark Schiller  

Editorial: Collaborative Stewardship, R.I.P. By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Water Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Comanche Creek Restoration: Innovative Methods to Improve Habitat By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

July 08

Rally to Support Sick Nuclear Weapons Workers

Office of Nuclear Workers' Advocacy Strives to Help Sick Workers By Mark Schiller

River Restoration Along the Banks of the Rio de las Trampas By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Edition of "Lands Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico" Is Now Available

West Rim Domestic Water Users Association Public Hearing By Kay Matthews

June 08

Interview with Congressman Tom Udall

State Property Tax Division Seeking to Enforce Restrictive Classification of Grazing Lands By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

A Scoundrel's Argument: The GAO's Denial of Fiduciary Duty in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo By David Correia, Professor of Geography at the University of Maine

New State Program Gives Rural Landowners Money for Land Protection By Daniel Claussen, Conservation Director, Santa Fe Conservation Trust

May 08

University of New Mexico Law School Land Grant Symposium  

Citizen Groups Appeal Forest Service and BLM Decision on Buckman Diversion Project By Kay Matthews

Puntos de Vista: Guadalupita Community Wins Battle to Save Old Growth Pines By Malcolm Ebright

LETTERS  

Editorial: LANL Needs to Clean Up Its Mess, Not Add To It By Mark Schiller

News Updates

Congressman Tom Udall Introduces Bill to Compensate LANL Workers

April 08

Richard Cook: Levee Building on the Rio Grande  

Editorial: Public Welfare, To Be or Not To Be By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Department of Energy Holds Hearing in Española on Bomb Making at LANL By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Community Speaks Out: LANL Expansion Proposal By Mark Schiller

Federal Communications Commission Holds Public Hearing on Chimayó Cell Phone Tower By Kay Matthews

March 08

Turning Swords into Ploughshares: Opposition to Nuclear Weapons Production at LANL By Kay Matthews  

Editorial: Taos Regional Water Plan Hijacked by the Powers That Be By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Ombudsman's Report Confirms Workers' Complaints About EEOICPA By Mark Schiller

Where are the Bookmobiles?

New Edition of Lands Grants & Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico

February 08

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pajarito Plateau Settlers Assert Human Rights Abuses By Mark Schiller

Get a PhD in Homeland Security!

Communities for Clean Water File Lawsuit Against LANL By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Fifty Years of Mismanagement with no Lessons Learned By Kay Matthews

Update on the Protest of the West Rim Mutual Domestic Water Users Association Water Transfer Application

Forest Guardians Takes on a "Bigger, Bolder" Identity

January 08

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Behemoth "On the Hill" By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Book Review: Manifest Destinies - The Making of the Mexican American Race By Laura Gomez Reviewed by Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

LETTERS

West Rim Mutual Domestic Water Users Association Proposed Water Transfer By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Us Versus Them, Otra Vez By Kay Matthews

November/December 07

Book Review: Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Reviewed by Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: Has It Come Down to "Us versus Them"? By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process By Mark Schiller

October 07

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Richard Cook Challenges State Statute That Protects Acequias By Kay Matthews  

Book Review: Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal By Susan Wells Reviewed by Kay Matthews

Denial of Rocky Flat's Claim Raises Questions About the Entire Nuclear Workers' Compensation Program By Mark Schiller

September 07

State Opens Office of Nuclear Workers Advocacy By Mark Schiller  

Pete Domenici's Toxic Legacy By Kay Matthews

Editorial: It's All About Money By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Living In "Atomic Spaces" By Mark Schiller

August 07

Pajarito Homesteaders Settlement Agreement Is "Unsettling" By Mark Schiller

Open House at the Sustainable Agricultural Science Center in Alcalde By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Updates on Water Transfer Protests and Adjudications By Kay Matthews

Lobato Land Grant Heirs Seek Justice By Mark Schiller

July 07

Martin Luther King III Comes to Town By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Chinks in LANL's Armor? By Kay Matthews

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: After 150 Years The Federal Government Remains in Denial By Mark Schiller

June 07

Commemoration of the Raid on the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: Indian Water Rights Adjudications Continue to Continue By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Compensation for Radiation Exposure at LANL: Two Stories By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

May 07

Cleaning the Acequia in El Valle  

La Jicarita Story Updates By Kay Matthews

Book Review: The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico By Joseph Masco Reviewed by Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hispanic Homesteaders on the Pajarito Plateau: An Unconstitutional Taking of Property at Los Alamos 1942-1945 By Malcolm Ebright

April 07

Abiquiu: Divisiveness & Discord By Mark Schiller  

Hundreds Protest Santa Fe County's Application to Transfer Water to Supplemental Wells By Kay Matthews

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Down the Legislative Black Hole By Kay Matthews

Editorial: It's All One Big Water Grab By Kay Matthews

March 07

Community Coalition Fights For Environmental Justice By Mark Schiller

Environment Secretary Refuses to Renegotiate LANL Cleanup By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Update on the Aamodt Adjudication Settlement By Kay Matthews

Mobile Matanza Update By Mark Schiller  

2007 Legislative Session: It's Finally Over By Kay Matthews and Max Schiller

February 07

Editorial: Maybe it's Time for the Peñasco Area Acequias to Organize By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Parciantes Reject Santa Fe County Offer to Settle Top of the World Water Transfer Protest By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Collaboration or Exploitation? You Be the Judge By Mark Schiller

To Our Readers  

January 07

Acequia Parciantes Turn Out to Protect Their Water By Kay Matthews  

Announcements

Editorial: "Bombplex" 2030 By Mark Schiller

New Mexico Supreme Court Finally Renders Opinion on Water Transfer Protest in Placitas By Kay Matthews

Book Review: Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico By Jake Kosek Reviewed by Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller (Part Two)

December 2006

Book Review: Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico By Jake Kosek Reviewed by Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller (Part One)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bechtel and Los Alamos National Laboratory: The Privatization of the Nuclear Industry By Kay Matthews  

Editorial: Politics as Usual in Rio Arriba County By Kay Matthews

November 2006

Environmental Politics in Northern New Mexico: Revisionist Spin Suggests "It's All Good" By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Taos Regional Water Plan: Nearing Finalization By Kay Matthews

Rio Arriba Planning and Zoning Committee Dismisses Concerns of Chimayó Council on Wireless Technology By Kay Matthews

October 2006

A Moveable Feast: Mobile Matanza Comes to El Norte By Mark Schiller  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Amy Goodman Came to Town

State Engineer's New Domestic Water Regulations Contested By Kay Matthews

From Michael Pollan's book, Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance Producer Contact List (New Mexico Producers) www.swgla.org

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Northern New Mexico: A Codependent and Troubled Relationship By Jake Kosek, Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews  

Aamodt: Water System Not Supported by the Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance (signed by the board members of the Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance)

Martinez's from Cañoncito Win Farm Family of the Year Award

September 2006

Op Ed: It's Time to Hold Los Alamos National Laboratory Accountable By Kalliroi Matsakis, Media Network Coordinator, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Who Should Decide How Best to Manage Our Water? By Kay Matthews

San Miguel del Vado Adjudication: A Template for Injustice By Mark Schiller (The research for this article was underwritten by a stipend from the Office of the State Historian) 

Jul/Aug 2006

It's Time to Define Just Exactly What Public Welfare Means By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Agricultural Revitalization Initiative: The Next Steps By Kay Matthews

The Same Old Story By Mark Schiller

Gemini Farms: Back to the Land By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Meet the New Rio Arriba County Commissioners (or Defend RAFCN, Take Your Pick) By Kay Matthews

June 2006

LANL Toxic Legacy Threatens New Mexico Water Supply By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Who's Reading La Jicarita News?

Aamodt and Abeyta Adjudications: What Do They Mean for Top of the World Farm Water Rights?  By Kay Matthews

Chimayó Youth Conservation Corps on the Move By Kay Matthews  

Update on Rio Arriba Moratorium on Communication Towers

OPEN LETTER TO CHIMAYÓ RESIDENTS FROM YOUR COUNCIL ON WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

May 2006

TAOS COUNTY Resolution No. 2006- A resolution opposing the transfer of any waters from the Top of the World Farm in northern Taos County

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Interview with David Benavides on the 2006 World Water Forum in Mexico

Aamodt versus Abeyta Adjudications: A Comparison By Kay Matthews 

Are Some Strings Being Pulled to Develop Wolf Creek Village? By Allen Best

April 2006

Rio Arriba County Institutes Communication Tower Moratorium in Response to Community Concern By Kay Matthews  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Is the Forest Service Prepared? By Kay Matthews

Agriculture Revitalization Initiative By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews (with Paul White and Lynne Velasco)

Book Review: The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians and the Devil By Malcolm Ebright & Rick Hendricks Reviewed by Kay Matthews

Camino Real Gets New District Ranger By Mark Schiller

March 2006

Techno Fascism, Otra Vez: National Animal Identification System Threatens Small Farmers and Ranchers By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LETTERS  

Proposed Rio Hondo Water Sharing Agreement By Kay Matthews

TAOS COUNTY Resolution No. 2006

Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance Members Continue to Raise Serious Questions Regarding Proposed Settlement of the Aamodt Adjudication By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Now is the Winter of Our Discontent By Mark Schiller

February 2006

Forest "Circus" Tackles Invasive Plants By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LETTERS

Santa Fe Veterans for Peace "Full Disclosure Recruiting" Team Again Visits Peñasco High School By Kay Matthews

Community Radio in Taos

Interview with Marty Peale, Valles Caldera Coalition Coordinator

Which Address Is It, Peñasco or El Valle?

Who's Reading La Jicarita News?

January 2006

Quivira Coalition Annual Meeting: Bridging the Urban/Rural Divide By Kay Matthews  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Water for Sale to the Highest Bidder By Kay Matthews

The Adjudication of the Antonio Chávez Grant and the Overturning of the Presumption of Authority By Mark Schiller

December 2005

Interview with Antonio "Ike" DeVargas, Ten Years Later

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Culture Clash in the Forests of Northern New Mexico By Kay Matthews

Water Transfer Protests Highlighted at NMAA Anuual Meeting By Kay Matthews

Forest Service Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement for Invasive Plant Control Project

De La Tierra a la Cosecha

November 2005

Norteños on the March: 1996 to 2006

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Book Review: Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 By George Mariscal Reviewed by Kay Matthews

Aamodt Adjudication Update By Kay Matthews

Taos Regional Water Plan: Peñasco Meeting

Matthew G. Reynolds and the Adjudication of Spanish and Mexican Land Claims By Mark Schiller

Editorial: "Opt Out" of Military Recruitment By Kay Matthews

October 2005

La Jicarita News: 10 Years Old

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Book Review: Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making By Ronald D. Brunner, Toddi A. Steelman, Lindy Coe-Juell, Christina M. Cromley, Christine M. Edwards, and Donna W. Tucker Reviewed by Kay Matthews

Tesuque Pueblo Files Suit to Stop Santa Fe Ski Area Expansion

Northern New Mexico Ranchettes: The Land Grant Version By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

September 2005

Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit: To Be or Not To Be? By David Correia

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Getting Our Priorities Straight By Mark Schiller

Sangre de Cristo Land Grant: It's History and Future By Mark Schiller

Editorial: National Sierra Club Censors Northern New Mexico Group By Kay Matthews

Taos Regional Water Plan

August 2005

Community-Based Economic Development: Dixon Cooperative Market

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Ranchettes or Inhabited Wilderness? By Kay Matthews

New Aamodt Settlement Proposal Continues to Cause Debate By Kay Matthews

GAO Report on Land Grants Misses the Mark By Mark Schiller

Earth Works Institute: Organizing in the Galisteo Watershed

June/July 2005

Picuris Pueblo Regains Ancestral Tribal Lands! By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Book Review: The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico 1880s-1930s By John N. Nieto-Phillips Reviewed by Kay Matthews

Public Awaits Release of Forest Service Environmental Impact Statement on Invasive Plant Control Project

Updates on Top of the World Water Transfer Protest & Aamodt Adjudication By Kay Matthews

Acequia Mediation Team Proposed

Taos Regional Water Plan Back on Track

1st Annual Power of the Youth Gathering in Chimayó

May 2005

Environmentalists File Lawsuit to Stop Agua/Caballos Timber Sale By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Veterans for Peace Come to Peñasco High School to Talk About "Full Disclosure Recruiting" By Kay Matthews

Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit: From Agropastoralism to Sustained Yield Forestry By David Correia

Organic Certification: What's Involved? By Joanie Quinn, New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission

April 2005

Interview with U.S. Representative Tom Udall, Part II

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Local Concerns Slipping Through Cracks as Forest Service Becomes More and More Centralized By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: Norteño Communities Must Unite By Mark Schiller

Marching in New York City on the Second Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq By Aspen Meleski

March 2005

Interview with U.S. Representative Tom Udall   By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Book Review: Chiva - A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade By Chellis Glendinning Reviewed by Kay Matthews

The Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit: an Early History By David Correia

Editorial: Speaking Truth to Power By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

February 2005

Sustainable Communities/ZERI-NM: Collaborative Forest Restoration Project By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller  

Announcements

Status Hearing on Aamodt Adjudication Full of Surprise By Kay Matthews

Interview With Diana Trujillo: Carson National Forest, El Rito District Ranger

Taylor Ranch Claimants Attend Status Hearing on Access Rights

Proposed Acequia Legislation

Action Alert

January 2005

El Greco: Collaborative Forest Restoration Project

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Taos Ski Valley Waste Treatment Facility Upgrade

Puntos de Vista: New Mexico-In What Direction? By Miguel Angel, native of Las Vegas, NM, retired professor of Chicano Studies

Aamodt Defendants Hire Taos Water Attorney Fred Waltz

Tecolote Land Grant Victory

The New Mexico Water Dialogue Annual Meeting

November 2004

Editorial: Community Forestry - Troubled Times in Northern New Mexico By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Changes to the Active Water Resource Management Regulations By Kay Matthews

Española Farmers' Market Celebrates Fall Harvest with Biggest Vegetable and Best Poem Contest

To Our Readers

An Intimate Look at the Valles Caldera Preserve By Kay Matthews

Update on State Land Office Sand and Gravel Mine in Velarde

Mica Mine and Mill Site Closed

October 2004

The High Road Art Tour

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Update on Aamodt Adjudication

Taos County Regional Water Plan

Adjudication of Water Rights Involving Acequias By Fred Waltz, Water Rights Attorney

Editorial By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

August/September 2004

Tramperos Meet to Organize Governing Body

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: State Engineer's "Proposed Active Water Resource Management Regulations" By Kay Matthews

Agua/Caballos Again Appealed By Kay Matthews

The Loss of Las Trampas Common Lands By Mark Schiller

Aamodt, Schmaamodt: Who Really Gets the Water? By John Nichols

La Jicarita Enterprise Watershed Restoration Program

Border Waterworks Completes Peñasco Area Water Survey

July 2004

Amy Goodman Comes to Taos By Aspen Meleski

Taylor Ranch: A Victory for La Gente

Community Forest Restoration Project By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

In Memory of Geoff Bryce

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The G.A.O. Land Grant Report: A Whitewash and Slap in the Face By Malcolm Ebright, Land Grant Historian

May/June 2004

Valles Caldera Preserve Gears Up For Another Grazing Season By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Techno-Fascism By Kay Matthews

Proposed Aamodt Adjudication Settlement Continues to Unsettle By Kay Matthews

Pueblo Water Rights Doctrine Overruled by New Mexico Supreme Court By Mark Schiller

Taos County Regional Water Plan

Taylor Ranch Access Case Back in Court

April 2004

Water For All: Organizing Against the Privatization of Water By Kay Matthews

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Water Market Game By Kay Matthews

Puntos de Vista By Orlando Romero, Nambe Resident and Historian

Marching to End the Occupation of Iraq

Who's Reading La Jicarita?

March 2004

Picuris Pueblo Files Claim to Aboriginal Lands By Mark Schiller  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Mexico Organic Farming & Gardening Expo: A Celebration of Growing Food By Kay Matthews

Coalition for the Valle Vidal Opposes Development of Coal Bed Methane

Land Grant Activists Have Much to Celebrate This Year By Kay Matthews

Some Community People Unhappy with Prescription in La Joya Urban/Interface Thinning Project

Cultural Energy: Creating Media Voices for Youth, Arts & Activism in Northern New Mexico

February 2004

Quivira Coalition Conference: Fostering Social and Environmental Health in the West By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Update on Top of the World Water Transfer Protest

Geothermal Drilling in the Valles Caldera

The Soldiers At My Front Door By Father John Dear

Editorial: Anti-Immigration and Animal Rights Activists Attempt Sierra Club Takeover By Kay Matthews

Ensuring a Land Legacy for Future Generations

January 2004

Loss of the Juan Bautista Valdez Grant: A Cautionary Tale By Mark Schiller

Update on Rio Grande Corridor Plan Appeal

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

Decision to Affirm Former Sangre de Cristo Land Grant Access Rights Stands By Kay Matthews

Editorial: What is Worth Fighting For? By Kay Matthews

Think New Mexico Recommends Strategic River Reserve

December 2003

Land Grant Representatives and Enviros Meet to Find Common Ground By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Subscribers and Supporters

Rio Arriba County Asks Representative Udall to Help Fund Land Grant Archive and Data Base

A Brief History of the Middle Rio Grand Conservancy District, 1929-1938 By Mark Schiller

Editorial: The Wal-Martization of Northern New Mexico By Kay Matthews

"Cultural Energy": Independent Media Voices From El Norte By Robin Collier

2004 New Mexico Organic Farm & Gardening Expo

November 2003

Dixon/Embudo: A Community on the Move By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Land Grants and the Legacy of the New Deal By Mark Schiller

Salt Cedar: Friend, Foe, or Excuse for Agency and Corporate Control By Kay Matthews

Editorial: What About Comanagement? By Kay Matthews

Draft of State Water Plan Presented to Public By Kay Matthews

October 2003

La Jicarita News: A Community Investment

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Interstate Stream Officials Gather Input for State Water Plan By Kay Matthews

Drawing From the Well's "Community Classroom"

Valles Caldera Coalition Members Meet New Trustee Tracy Hephner By Kay Matthews

State Water Plan Special Meeting with Acequia Community

Santo Domingo de Cundiyó Land Grant Works to Update Bylaws

September 2003

State Legislative Interim Land Grant Committee Meets in Española By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Water Transfer Battles in the Middle Rio Grande

Forest Service Adds Insult To Injury With Latest Ski Area Decision By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Water Transfer Protests By Kay Matthews

Dixon Farmers' Market a Big Success

July/August 2003

Maude Barlow, Author of "Blue Gold, the Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water," Comes to Santa Fe By Kay Matthews

Wool Traditions: A Fundraising Effort

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Forest Terrorism By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Bring Back Our Plazas By Kay Matthews

Puntos de Vista: Have You Ever Fought a Landfill? By Deborah Begel

Updates on Forest Service Proposed Projects: Agua/Caballos, La Joya Wildland/Urban Interface, and Borrego Salvage

June 2003

Forest Service Hopes to Begin Salvage Project on Borrego Mesa This Summer By Kay Matthews  

GAO Report on Fuels Reduction Appeals Increases the Debate By Mark Schiller

LETTERS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Oglebay Norton Puts on a False Face By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Show Me the Water By Kay Matthews

Where Have All the Superintendents Gone? By Kay Matthews

May 2003

Book Review: Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke Reviewed by Tamara Teale

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Book Review: The River in Winter By Stanley Crawford Reviewed by Mark Schiller

Debating Wildfire Issues By John Gerritsma: Applegate Coordinator, Medford District BLM/Rogue River National Forest

2003 Wild Fire Road Show: A Visit with the Applegate Partnership By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Rio Arriba County Passes Resolution to Affirm Civil Rights

The Faces of Iraq

April 2003

Norteños Demonstrate at Kirtland Air Force

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Acequia Protection Bills Become Law

KRZA Community Radio: Is it Meeting the Needs of El Norte? By Kay Matthews

Interview with Moises Gonzales, Rio Arriba County Assistant Planner and Co-Chair of the Mexicano Land Education and Conservation Trust

Puntos de Vista: The Albuquerque Drinking Water Project By John Carangelo

Editorial: What Would Jesus Do? By Mark Schiller

March 2003

Sangre de Cristo Land Grant Activists Tell Their Story at the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Conmemoria at the Oñate Center By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

State Legislature Considers Strengthening Acequia Autonomy By Mark Schiller

Book Review: This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West By Daniel Kemmis Reviewed by Kay Matthews

March Against War

Keynote Speaker at the New Mexico Farming & Gardening Expo Talks Revolution By Kay Matthews

February 2003

Acequia Abajo de El Valle Rehabilitation Project: Five Years in the Making

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Interview with Estevan López, Newly Appointed Interstate Stream Commission Engineer

Editorial: Will the Real Forest Service Please Stand Up By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Hombres Buenos By Kay Matthews

The Battle Over Wal-Mart

January 2003

Community Activists Participate in International Human Rights Day in Santa Fe  

Santa Fe County Proposes Ordinance to Protect Acequias

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Who's Reading La Jicarita?

Back to Basics: The Oñate Center's Land Grant Project By Malcolm Ebright

La Jicarita News Wins Award from Taos Soil & Water Conservation District

The Far Horizon: To Carl Pope, Executive Director, The Sierra Club By Courtney White

Enviro Injunction Imperils Grazing in New Mexico and Arizona By Mark Schiller

Oñate Monument and Visitors Center conmemoria El Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo

December 2002

Picuris Pueblo and Friends Back at the Mica Mine, One Year Later

Editorial: Picuris Pueblo - No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: The Forest Service Fiddles While the West Burns By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Thousands March for Peace in Taos By Aspen Meleski, age 14

Saving the McCarthy Ranch By Kay Matthews

New Mexico Community-Based Forestry Alliance

Who's Reading La Jicarita News?

November 2002

Spañapalooza: Getting the Youth Together in Española

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Southwest Regional Forester Meets with Community People and Local Forest Service Personnel in Truchas By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Puntos de Vista: New Strategies and Collaboration on Treaty Rights By Moises Gonzales, Mexicano Land Education and Conservation Trust

Ray Pacheco's "Value-Added" Goats By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Water, Otra Vez By Kay Matthews

Action Alert: Picuris Demonstration

Who's Reading La Jicarita? Who's Reading the Applegator?

September/October 2002

Picuris Pueblo Requests Hearing on Expansion of Mica Mine By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ACTION ALERT

Rio Arriba County Logging Ordinance Challenged by Governor Johnson

Sandia Pueblo Buys 160-Acre Sandia Mountain Wilderness Inholding to Help Settle Land Claim

 Editorial: The Forest Service - Bureaucracy Out of Control By Mark Schiller

New Mexican Land Grants Organize for Action on Their Land Claims By Kay Matthews

Agua/Caballos Proposed Projects Record of Decision Appealed By Kay Matthews

August 2002

Editorial: Forest Service Foreclosure Prompts Ranchers' Rebellion By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Puntos de Vista By Lorenzo Sotelo

Colorado Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Sangre de Cristo Land Grant Rights to Grazing, Firewood and Timber on the Taylor Ranch By Kay Matthews

Northern New Mexico Health Corps Recruiting Positions By Juliana Anastasoff

Agua Caballos Projects Record of Decision Finally Released

July 2002

Marketing the Rain: Water for Sale to the Highest Bidder By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

LETTERS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Protecting Our Cultural Landscape: Taking the Next Step By Kay Matthews

Interview with Jerry Rodriguez: Farmer, Rancher, Land Grant Activist and Taos County Employee

Editorial: Analysis Paralysis or Business as Usual? By Kay Matthews

June 2002

Send in the Goats: They'll Eat Anything By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Peñasco Schools Participate in C.H.E.A.R.S. Program

Editorial: By Mark Schiller

Editorial: The Borrego Fire By Kay Matthews

The Embudo Valley Celebrates Opening of New Library

May 2002

Health Centers Celebrates 30 Years of Service By Betsy Martinez

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: The National Fire Plan By Mark Schiller

Proposed Valles Caldera Grazing Program By Kay Matthews

Rio Arriba County Commission Candidates Attend Forum in Dixon

Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Leonard Peltier

Letters

April 2002

Embudo Valley Community Supported Agriculture Begins Its 3rd Year of Providing Fresh Produce to Valley Residents

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ZERI Institute's Gunter Pauli Visits Northern New Mexico

Honoring Our Elders

Edge Habitat: Where Tradition Meets Innovation By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

National Fire Plan Funding: Where's the Accountability? By Kay Matthews

La Jicarita Wastewater Treatment Project Update

March 2002

Santa Barbara Rehabilitation Project: Show Us The Work By Mark Schiller

Working Toward 89,000 Acres of Common Ground on the Valles Caldera By Ernie Atencio

Is the Fight for San Luis Valley Water Finally Over? By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Justice in the Middle East By Kay Matthews

February 2002

The Valles Caldera: A Showdown on Public Lands Management By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Land Grant History of the Valles Caldera, or Baca Location No. 1 By Malcolm Ebright

Interview with Antonio DeVargas: Founding Member of La Companía Ocho

Editorial: Paying to Play in the Forest: More Than Meets the Pocketbook By Kay Matthews

January 2002

Editorial: The Santa Fe Watershed, How Much Analysis Is Enough? By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Acequia Parciantes and the Forest Service Negotiate Over Pre-Existing Rights on Federal Land By Kay Matthews

The Need for Public Participation in Regulatory Processes and The Sound Science Principle By Doug Meiklejohn, Executive Director, New Mexico Environmental Law Center

Puntos de Vista: Our Tarnished Treasure, or Poor Old Threadbare New Mexican Agriculture By Lynn Montgomery

December 2001

Picuris Pueblo Demonstrates to Draw Attention to Proposed Mica Mine Expansion By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Puntos de Vista: Talking about Drugs and Alcohol In Peñasco By Vicente Villareal

Letter to the Editor

High Road MarketPlace in Chimayó Promotes Local Arts and Crafts By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Water on my Mind By Kay Matthews

November 2001

Community Forestry Alliance Meets with Forest Service to Review Wildlands/Urban Interface Projects By Kay Matthews

Announcements

Letter to the Editor

Interviews:

Chellis Glendinning - Chimayó Writer

Max Córdova - President, La Montaña de Truchas

October 2001

Interview with Lisa Krooth, Exective Director Community and Indian Legal Services, Formerly with the National Office of the American Civil Liberties Union By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with Antonio "Ike" DeVargas: Logger, Community Activist, Rio Arriba County Planning Department By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Peace, Yes, But What About Justice? By Pat d'Andrea

September 2001

La Montaña de Truchas at Work on the Santa Fe Watershed By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Adding Insult to Injury By Mark Schiller

Interview with Daniel Shreck, Board Member of the Abelard Foundation and Resident of Chimayó

Editorial: Do We Really Need the 69K Transmission Line from Talpa to Peñasco? By Kay Matthews

August 2001

Distortions of History: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Past? By Malcolm Ebright, Historian and Author of Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Tom Turney, Prophet or Pirate? By Mark Schiller

Oral History: An interview with the Acequia Abajo de El Valle Commissioners and Mayordomo: Clarence Mascareñas, Arsenio Montoya, and Tomás Montoya

Editorial: Where are the Restoration Projects?By Kay Matthews

Forth Annual Taos Valley Acequia Festival

July 2001

Acequia Parciantes Assert Pre-Existing Rights on Federal Land By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Water Sharing

Editorial: Santa Fe Ski Area Containment Coalition Fights Latest Ski Expansion Proposal By Mark Schiller

Community-Based Forestry Alliance Organizes to Promote Economic Development and Restore Forest Health By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Picuris Pueblo Releases Water Quality Data By Rich Schrader and Robert Gomez, Picuris Pueblo Environment Department

Locals Protest Mining Proposals By Mark Schiller

May/June 2001

A Who's Who at the April 27-28 Collaborative Stewardship "Unconference"

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Putting Water to Beneficial Use By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Maintaing Rural Communities in the Face of Development By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Collaborative Stewardship - Where Do We Go From Here? By Kay Matthews

Book Review By Kay Matthews

The New Ranch: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands By Nathan F. Sayre

Op Ed: Lawsuit Filers Hurting Environmental Cause By Les Crowder and Tom Delehanty

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps at Work in El Valle By Kay Matthews

April 2001

Collaborative Stewardship in Northern New Mexico April 27-28, Taos Kachina Lodge

Peñasco Students Honor Our Elders By Mark Schiller

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Bison Roam Again at Picuris Pueblo By Kay Matthews

Aamodt Water Rights Litigation: 35 Years of Controversy By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial By Kay Matthews

Pecos River Watershed Alliance Update

Legislative Update: Acequia Issues

 March 2001

Collaborative Stewardship At Work: a Two-Day "Unconference" April 27-28, (Fri-Sat), 2001 at the Kachina Inn, Taos, New Mexico

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LETTERS

La Jicarita Wastewater Study Committee Commits to Developing Master Plan for the Watershed By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Organic Expo Demonstrates Commitment to Maintaining our Agricultural Lands By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Land Grant Reparation: The Government Can't Just Buy It's Way Out of this One By Mark Schiller

Mechanical Thinning Versus Fire: Which is Better for Forest Health? By Max Córdova Jr., Montaña de Truchas Youth Team

Ricos mas Ricos y Pobres mas Pobres . . .

Legislative Update: Water Issues

February 2001

Sustainable Water Use as a Public Good in the Face of Private Water Rights: A Dialogue

Pecos River Watershed Alliance Takes Steps to Manage Growth By Mark Schiller

Puntos de Vista By Miguel Santistevan

Organic Certification of Livestock: What Does It Take? By Mark Schiller

Santa Domingo Pueblo - BLM Land Exchange: Where's the Land?

January 2001

Cows, Culture, and Continuity: An Environmental Justice Argument in Support of Public Lands Ranching in Northern New Mexico By Ernest Atencio Reviewed by Kay Matthews

Editorial: Another Water Transfer Protest: How Long Can We Keep our Finger in the Dike? By Mark Schiller

A Victory for the Carnuel Land Grant By Kay Matthews

Editorial: Sierra Club Vote on "Zero Cow" Initiative By Kay Matthews

December 2000

New Mexico Acequia Association Addresses Critical Water Issues at Annual Meeting By Kay Matthews

Anti-SLAPP Bill Legislation Targeted for January By Patti Elliot

Alert!

Editorial By Kay Matthews

Grassbank Conference By Mark Schiller

San Miguel del Vado Land Grant: The Loss of the Commons By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Taos Soil and Water Conservation District Holds Annual Meeting

November 2000

Community Food Security: A Growing Idea By Esther Kovari, New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association

The Embudo Valley Regional Acequia Association is Official By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

AWARDS

Santa Barbara Grazing Allotment Rehabilitation: A Progress Report By Mark Schiller

Congreso de las Acequias

Collaborative Stewardship on the Carson By Max Córdova Jr., Truchas Montaña Youth Team

National Heritage Area Planned for Northern New Mexico By Kay Matthews

On the Streets of Chimayó

The Social Event of the Season

October 2000

High Road to Taos Art Tour

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Grassbanks in the West: Challenges and Opportunities

Come Celebrate with the Taos Valley Acequia Association

Editorial By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

¡Stop Genetic Imperialism! Bio Piracy, Mutant Corn, Threaten Mexico's Food Supply By John Ross  

Santa Fe Community Foundation Bestows its Piñon Awards on La Jicarita News and Other Northern New Mexico Nonprofits

Kit Carson Proposes Two New Transmission Lines

September 2000

Water and Natural Resources Legislative Interim Committee Comes to Española to Talk About Acequias By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Book Review By Mark Schiller Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro By Harvey Frauenglass

Editorial By Mark Schiller

Puntos de Vista By Courtney White, Executive Director of the Quivira Coalitio

Editorial By Kay Matthews

August 2000

Embudo Valley Community Supported Agriculture: A Community Garden for Dixon/Embudo By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Truchas Montaña Youth Team Tours Los Alamos Burn By Max Cordova, Jr.

Taos Soil & Water Conservation District Annual Tour By Kay Matthews

Puntos de Vista: EN EL NOMBRE DE DIOS TODOPODEROSO ¿QUE HA PASADO CON EL TRATADO? By Georgia Roybal, with input from Roberto Mondragón-Anton Chico Land Grant, Estevan Arellano-Embudo Land Grant, and Juan Sánchez-Chililí Land Grant

Churro Cavorts Again By Georgia Spelvin

Editorial By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

July 2000

Rio Arriba County Commission Passes Ordinance to Protect Irrigated Lands By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LETTERS

High Road Art Tour & New Projects By Jane Cook  

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole Again By Eda Gordon

Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro By Harvey Frauenglass

Editorial By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Hearing on Roadless Area Proposal By Mark Schiller

Legislative Interim Committee Meets to Listen to Acequia Concerns By Kay Matthews

May/June 2000

Los Ancianos y Amigos

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Finding Funds for Acequia Rehabilitation Projects a Long and Arduous Process

Editorial:An Ounce of Prevention By Mark Schiller

Santa Barbara Rehabilitation Project Completes Prescribed Burn By Mark Schiller

Editorial: Whose Water is it Anyway? By Kay Matthews

Cañada Maria Piñon/Juniper Restoration Project By Max Córdova, Jr. and Nova Romero of the Truchas Montaña Youth Team

The Million Men and Women La Nueva Raza Peace March in Albuquerque

A Thank You Message to our Supporters

April 2000

Honoring Our Elders

ANNOUNCEMENTS Apr 2000

New Developments in the San Luis Valley Water Wars By Kay Matthews

Interview with Felipe Córdova: Organizer of the Hispano Million Man Peace March

Truchas Montaña Youth Team Meets with Forest Service By Max Córdova, Jr. and Nova Romero

Update on Feasibility Study of Biomass/Natural Gas Power Plant for Angel Fire

Rafting Company Appeals Rio Grande Corridor Plan By Kay Matthews  

March 2000

Land Grant Forum Celebrates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

ANNOUNCEMENTS Mar 99

Puntos de Vista: El Bosque - Limits or Expansion? By Kay Weiner

Forest Restoration Project Looks at on-the-Ground Conditions By Kay Matthews

Truchas Montaña Youth Team By Nova Romero, Lito Martinez and Max Córdova Jr.

Editorial Mar 00 By Mark Schiller

Legislative Update on Water Bills

Santa Barbara Rehabilitation Project Update

Judge Dismisses Picuris Lawsuit Over Expansion of Mica Mine

Another Advocate for Inhabited Wilderness

February 2000

Keeping Land Productive: A Profile of Farmers in the Embudo Valley By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS Feb 2000

The U.S. Forest Service at a Crossroads By Dan Quinn  

Acequia Water Issues Before the 2000 State Legislative Session By Kay Matthews

Editorial Feb 99 By Mark Schiller

Picuris Pueblo and La Jicarita Valley Communities Once Again go to Legislature for Funding for Wastewater Master Plan

Tom Udall Comes to Town

January 2000

La Montaña de Truchas Restoration Partnership Grant By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS Jan 2000

Editorial: Santa Barbara Grazing Allotment By Mark Schiller

Angel Fire Residents Explore Feasibility of Biomass/Natural Gas Power Plant By Kay Matthews

Oral History: An Interview with George Lucero of Chamisal, New Mexico

Editorial: Unity Through Diversity Forum By Kay Matthews  

December 1999

Collaborative Stewardship on the Carson National Forest: Where We've Been and How Far We Have to Go By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS Dec 1999

Water Planning Resumes in Santa Fe, Española, Los Alamos Area By Estevan López, Santa Fe County Utilities Director, Chairperson of the Jemez y Sangre Regional Water Planning Council

New Mexico Acequia Association Reorganizes to Better Serve Acequias and Acequia Parciantes By Kay Matthews

The Cerro Mojino Ranch: Connie and Sam Taylor's Land Stewardship Sustains Navajo-Churro Sheep Business By Kay Matthews

November 1999

November 1 Begins Leonard Peltier Freedom Month By Eda Gordon, Leonard Peltier Support Group - New Mexico

Editorial Nov 99 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Taos Valley Acequia Association and New Mexico Acequia Association Sponsor Conference By Mark Schiller

Who's Reading La Jicarita? Nov 99

New Mexico Acequia Association Invites Parciantes to Help Reshape Organization By Paula Garcia, Director

Letters to the Editor Nov 99

Book Review Nov 99 By Kay Matthews Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West Hal K. Rothman

October 1999

Norteños Claim National Policies of Environmental Groups Discriminate Against Minorities and Fail to Protect Resources

ANNOUNCEMENTS Oct 99

Taos Valley Acequia Plans Weekend Seminar and Festival

Editorial Oct 99 By Mark Schiller

Tierra Wools - Community Development in Action By Kay Matthews

Santa Barbara Restoration Project Update By Mark Schiller

High Road to Taos Art Tour

September 1999

La Montaña de Truchas: Restoration and Woodlot Program By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS Sep 99

National Riparian Team Comes to Peñasco By Courtney White

Protecting Things We Cannot Bear to Lose By Mark Schiller

Puntos de Vista: Why Do We Say "Illegals" By Pat D'Andrea

Bureau of Land Management Officially Withdraws Copper Hill From Surface Mining

Senator Bingaman Introduces Community Forest Restoration Act for Northern New Mexico

August 1999

San Juan Agricultural Cooperative: Economic Development and Cultural Preservation By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS Aug 99

Puntos de Vista Aug 99 By Bruce Richardson, President, Chimayó Crime Prevention Organization

Sierra Club Hears From Minorities Locally and Nationally By Kay Matthews

Editorial Aug 99

June/July 1999

Community Tours Proposed Agua/Caballos Timber Sale in the Vallecitos Sustained Yield Unit By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS Jun/Jul 99

Picuris Pueblo Sues Over Proposed Mica Mine Expansion

Puntos de Vista Divide and Conquer: A Historian's View By Malcolm Ebright  

Santa Barbara Permittees Take Grazing into the 21st Century By Mark Schiller

Sangre de Cristo Growers Revitalize Wheat Crops in Costilla Area By Kay Matthews

Editorial Jun Jul 99

May 1999

Madera Forest Products: Sustainable Community Development  

ANNOUNCEMENTS May 99

Water Banking Workshop Explores Ways to Maintain and Protect Acequia Communities By Kay Matthews

Oral Histories: By Bud Córdova, Mary Bissell, Derick Arellano, and Max Schiller

Book Review May 99 By Kay Matthews Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin Edited by Devon G. Peña, University of Arizona Press

Contract Stewardship Workshop

Imus Water Transfer 

April 1999

Southern Rockies Conference - A Debate over the Future of our Bioregion

Quivira Coalition Workshop - Herding: An Idea Whose Time Has Returned By Kay Matthews

Top of the World Update

A Controversy that Divides the Rio Gallinas Community By William R. Gonzales, San Augustin parciante, Northern New Mexico Legal Services paralegal

Andres Aragon Martinez, Mayordomo By Pat D'Andrea

ANNOUNCEMENT Apr 99

LETTERS Apr 99

Puntos de Vista Apr 99 By Manuel Trujillo, delivered to a joint session of the NM State Legislature

March 1999

February 2: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Commemoration at NM Legislature

ANNOUNCEMENTS Mar 99

LETTERS Mar 99

Picuris Pueblo Announces Intent to Sue Over Proposed Mica Mine Expansion By Mark Schiller

Editorial Mar 99 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Local Acequias Set up Water Banking Program By Kay Matthews

State Engineer Denies Mora Fish Hatchery Water Transfer Protest

Forest Service Sponsors Contract Stewardship Workshop

News Briefs Mar 99

February 1999

Dixon/Embudo Communities Meet Again with Rio Arriba County Planning Department

Mora Fish Hatchery Water Transfer Protest Goes to Hearing By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS Feb 99

El Bosque Preservation Action Committee Protests Rio Grande Corridor Plan By Kay Matthews

Puntos de Vista Economics, Imperialism, and the Environment: Whose Values Determine the Value of the Environment? By Paula Garcia, Director, New Mexico Acequia Association

Amigos Bravos Will Oppose Instream Flow Legislation

January 1999

Rio Arriba County Holds Forum on Planning Issues for Dixon/Embudo Communities

Editorial: Mica Mine Closeout Plan Masks Franklin Industrial Mineral's Real Intention By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS Jan 1999

New Mexico Acequia Association Holds Annual Meeting By Kay Matthews

Community Meets to Plan for Wastewater Treatment By Catalina Muniz

A Report Called "State of the Southern Rockies: Greater San Juan-Sangre de Cristo Bioregion." Whose Report and to What Purpose? By Kay Matthews

Puntos de Vista Jan 1999 By Peter White, Water Rights Attorney

 December 1998

New Mexico Acequia Commission Water Management Workshop

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Think Global - Run for the Border, It Isn't Far Away By Pat D'Andrea

Puntos de Vista: Got Imperialism? By Chellis Glendinning

Cook's Mining Operations Come Under Fire

New Mexico Acequia Association Meets to Analyze Water Bills By Kay Matthews

Editorial By Mark Schiller

November 1998

Northern New Mexico Collaborative Stewardship Wins Innovations in American Government Award

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Taos Valley Acequia Association and Rio Chama Acequia Association Formalize Acequia Conservation Program By Mark Schiller

Think Global Some People Call It Progress-An Illustrated Essay

Pictures by Eric Shultz Words by Chellis Glendinning

Puntos de Vista By David Benavides

October 1998

High Road to Taos Art Tour

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Community Mapping on the El Rito Ranger District By Kay Matthews

A Critique of the Rio Grande Corridor Proposed Plan and Final EIS By El Bosque Preservation Action Committee

Puntos de Vista By Dana Wise  

Editorial By Mark Schiller

Updates: Summo Mine - Mica Mine - Land Grant Review Bill

September 1998

Goodby to Summo Corporation on Copper Hill By Mark Schiller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LETTERS

Putting Wood To Work: Forest Products Business Development Opportunities in North-Central New Mexico By Jan-Willem Jansens A Review by Kay Matthews

Just What Does Constitute Forest Health? By Kay Matthews Photos by Eric Shultz

Puntos de Vista By Patrick O'Toole

Editorial By Mark Schiller

Editorial By Kay Matthews

August 1998

Picuris Pueblo says "NO!" to Mica Mine Expansion By Kay Matthews

ANNOUNCEMENTS

AWARDS

First We Bake, Then We Flood . . .

Sierra Club Chapter Refuses To Participate in Bingaman's Roundtables By Courtney White

Rio Arriba County Upholds Gravel Mine Approval Story and photos by Eric Shultz

Think Global

minding by Chellis Glendinning

Puntos de Vista By Mike Connelly, Oregon rancher

Editorial By Mark Schiller

Late Breaking News

By Author & Headline

Juliana Anastafoff

Northern New Mexico Health Corps Recruiting Positions

Miguel Angel

Puntos de Vista: New Mexico-In What Direction?

Derick Arellano

Oral Histories: By Bud Córdova, Mary Bissell, Derick Arellano, and Max Schiller

Joni Arends

Hazardous Waste Permit for Our Up Wind Neighbor, Los Alamos National Laboratory By Joni Arends and Sheri Kotowski

Center for Disease and Prevention Control Meets With New Mexico Community on Los Alamos National Laboratory Contaminant Releases By Basia Miller, Joni Arends, and Kay Matthews

Los Alamos National Laboratory Update By Joni Arends and Sheri Kotowski

 Ernie Atencio

Working Toward 89,000 Acres of Common Ground on the Valles Caldera

Deborah Begel

Literary Radio Dreams

Puntos de Vista: Have You Ever Fought a Landfill?

David Benavides

Interview: May 2006

Puntos de Vista

Allen Best

Are Some Strings Being Pulled to Develop Wolf Creek Village?

Mary Bissell

Oral Histories: By Bud Córdova, Mary Bissell, Derick Arellano, and Max Schiller

John Carangelo

Puntos de Vista: The Albuquerque Drinking Water Project

Daniel Claussen

New State Program Gives Rural Landowners Money for Land Protection

Robin Collier

"Cultural Energy": Independent Media Voices From El Norte

Mike Connelly

Puntos de Vista

Jane Cook

High Road Art Tour & New Projects

Bud Córdova

Oral Histories: By Bud Córdova, Mary Bissell, Derick Arellano, and Max Schiller

Max Córdova

Interview: November 2001

Max Córdova Jr

Cañada Maria Piñon/Juniper Restoration Project By Max Córdova, Jr. and Nova Romero

Collaborative Stewardship on the Carson

Mechanical Thinning Versus Fire: Which is Better for Forest Health?

Truchas Montaña Youth Team By Nova Romero, Lito Martinez and Max Córdova Jr.

Truchas Montaña Youth Team Meets with Forest Service By Max Córdova, Jr. and Nova Romero

David Correia

A Change is Going to Come By Kay Matthews and David Correia

Appeal Peters Out: An Update on Las Acequias de Chupadero By David Correia and Eric Perramond

A Scoundrel's Argument: The GAO's Denial of Fiduciary Duty in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Hijuelas of Tierra Amarilla

New Mexico's Anti-Union Union

On the Muckraking of Mark Schiller: A Retrospective

Poor Chupadero, so far from God, so close to Santa Fe By David Correia and Eric Perramond

Santa Fe's Amigos del Parque Celebrates Ninth Anniversary

Tierra Amarilla Land Grant Board "Waives mineral rights it doesn't have" in Controversial Deal with Oil Company

The Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit: an Early History

Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit: From Agropastoralism to Sustained Yield Forestry

Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit: To Be or Not To Be?

Les Crowder and Tom Delahanty

Op Ed: Lawsuit Filers Hurting Environmental Cause

Pat D'Andrea

Andres Aragon Martinez, Mayordomo

Peace, Yes, But What About Justice?

Puntos de Vista: Why Do We Say "Illegals"

Think Global - Run for the Border, It Isn't Far Away

Kristen Davenport

Peñasco Farmer's Market

Malcolm Ebright

Back to Basics: The Oñate Center's Land Grant Project

Distortions of History: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Past?

The G.A.O. Land Grant Report: A Whitewash and Slap in the Face

The Guadalupita/Coyote Historic District and Preservation of Our Communities in Northern New Mexico

Hispanic Homesteaders on the Pajarito Plateau: An Unconstitutional Taking of Property at Los Alamos 1942-1945

Land Grant History of the Valles Caldera, or Baca Location No. 1

Puntos de Vista Divide and Conquer: A Historian's View

Puntos de Vista: Guadalupita Community Wins Battle to Save Old Growth Pines

A Tribute to Mark Schiller

Patti Elliot

Anti-SLAPP Bill Legislation Targeted for January

Kristina Fisher

Two Progressive Bills Work Their Way Through the Legislative Session

Laura Frank

Plan to Pay Sick Nuclear Workers Unfairly Rejects Many, Doctor Says

Harvey Frauenglass

Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro

John Gerritsma

Debating Wildfire Issues

Paula Garcia

New Mexico Acequia Association Invites Parciantes to Help Reshape Organization

Puntos de Vista Economics, Imperialism, and the Environment: Whose Values Determine the Value of the Environment?

Chellis Glendinning

Interview: November 2001

Puntos de Vista: Got Imperialism?

Think Global Some People Call It Progress-An Illustrated Essay

Think Global

Robert Gomez

Picuris Pueblo Releases Water Quality Data By Rich Schrader and Robert Gomez, Picuris Pueblo Environment Department

Moises Gonzales

Puntos de Vista: New Strategies and Collaboration on Treaty Rights

William R. Gonzales

A Controversy that Divides the Rio Gallinas Community By William R. Gonzales, San Augustin parciante, Northern New Mexico Legal Services paralegal

Eda Gordon

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole Again

November 1 Begins Leonard Peltier Freedom Month By Eda Gordon, Leonard Peltier Support Group - New Mexico

Jake Kosek

A Community Organizer

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Northern New Mexico: A Codependent and Troubled Relationship

Sheri Kotwoski

Activism and the Local Nuclear Weapons Industry

Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group is Retiring

Hazardous Waste Permit for Our Up Wind Neighbor, Los Alamos National Laboratory By Joni Arends and Sheri Kotowski

Los Alamos National Laboratory Update By Joni Arends and Sheri Kotowski

Los Alamos National Laboratory Updates, February/March 2011

Sampling in the Rio Embudo Watershed

Ester Kovari

Community Food Security: A Growing Idea

Pat Leahan

A Wake-Up Call in Mora and San Miguel Counties

Estevan López

Water Planning Resumes in Santa Fe, Española, Los Alamos Area By Estevan López, Santa Fe County Utilities Director, Chairperson of the Jemez y Sangre Regional Water Planning Council

Peter Malmgren

Los Alamos Revisited

Los Alamos Revisited, Part Two

Lito Martinez

Truchas Montaña Youth Team By Nova Romero, Lito Martinez and Max Córdova Jr.

Kay Matthews

2003 Wild Fire Road Show: A Visit with the Applegate Partnership By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

2007 Legislative Session: It's Finally Over By Kay Matthews and Max Schiller

A Change is Going to Come By Kay Matthews and David Correia

Aamodt and Abeyta Adjudications: What Do They Mean for Top of the World Farm Water Rights?

Aamodt Settlement Update, Otra Vez

Aamodt versus Abeyta Adjudications: A Comparison

Aamodt Water Rights Litigation: 35 Years of Controversy By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Acequia Parciantes and the Forest Service Negotiate Over Pre-Existing Rights on Federal Land

Acequia Parciantes Assert Pre-Existing Rights on Federal Land By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Acequia Parciantes Turn Out to Protect Their Water

Acequia Water Issues Before the 2000 State Legislative Session

Acequias Confront Forest Service Over Access Rights By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Acequias de las Sierras: La Jicarita Transbasin Diversions Dating from the 1800s

 Aamodt Adjudication Update

Agricultural Revitalization Initiative: The Next Steps

Agua/Caballos Again Appealed

Agua/Caballos Proposed Projects Record of Decision Appealed

Angel Fire Residents Explore Feasibility of Biomass/Natural Gas Power Plant

A Victory for the Carnuel Land Grant

Bechtel and Los Alamos National Laboratory: The Privatization of the Nuclear Industry

Book Review: Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making By Ronald D. Brunner, Toddi A. Steelman, Lindy Coe-Juell, Christina M. Cromley, Christine M. Edwards, and Donna W. Tucker

Book Review: Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 By George Mariscal

Book Review: Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal By Susan Wells

Book Review: Chiva - A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade By Chellis Glendinning

Book Review: Down Country, The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782 By Lucy Lippard, Museum of New Mexico Press

Book Review Mar 03: This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West

Book Review May 99: Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin Edited by Devon G. Peña, University of Arizona Press

Book Review Nov 99: Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West Hal K. Rothman

Book Review: Manifest Destinies - The Making of the Mexican American Race By Laura Gomez

Book Review: Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Book Review: The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico 1880s-1930s By John N. Nieto-Phillips

Book Review, May/June 00: The New Ranch: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands By Nathan F. Sayre

Book Review: The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico By Joseph Masco

Book Review: The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians and the Devil By Malcolm Ebright & Rick Hendricks

Book Review: Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico By Jake Kosek

Book Review: Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico By Jake Kosek Reviewed by Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller (Part Two)

Carson National Forest Continues to Assert its Authority Over Area Acequias

Carson National Forest Releases Plan for Managing Motorized Travel

Carson National Forest Takes a More Conservative Approach to Broadcast Burn Near El Valle

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Finally Releases Historic Contaminant Report for Los Alamos National Laboratory

Center for Disease and Prevention Control Meets With New Mexico Community on Los Alamos National Laboratory Contaminant Releases By Basia Miller, Joni Arends, and Kay Matthews

The Cerro Mojino Ranch: Connie and Sam Taylor's Land Stewardship Sustains Navajo-Churro Sheep Business

Changes to the Active Water Resource Management Regulations

Chimayó Youth Conservation Corps on the Move

Citizen Groups Appeal EPA Stormwater Permit for Los Alamos National Laboratory

Citizen Groups Appeal Forest Service and BLM Decision on Buckman Diversion Project

Collaborative Stewardship on the Carson National Forest: Where We've Been and How Far We Have to Go By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Colorado Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Sangre de Cristo Land Grant Rights to Grazing, Firewood and Timber on the Taylor Ranch

Comanche Creek Restoration: Innovative Methods to Improve Habitat By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Commemoration of the Raid on the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Communities for Clean Water File Lawsuit Against LANL

Community-Based Forestry Alliance Organizes to Promote Economic Development and Restore Forest Health By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Community Forest Restoration Project By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Community Forestry Alliance Meets with Forest Service to Review Wildlands/Urban Interface Projects

Community Mapping on the El Rito Ranger District

Community Tours Proposed Agua/Caballos Timber Sale in the Vallecitos Sustained Yield Unit

Compensation for Radiation Exposure at LANL: Two Stories By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Concerns About LANL Affects on "Downwinders" Aired at Picuris Pueblo Meeting

Cows, Culture, and Continuity: An Environmental Justice Argument in Support of Public Lands Ranching in Northern New Mexico By Ernest Atencio

Decision to Affirm Former Sangre de Cristo Land Grant AccessRights Stands

Department of Energy Holds Hearing in Española on Bomb Making at LANL

Dixon/Embudo: A Community on the Move

Draft of State Water Plan Presented to Public

Edge Habitat: Where Tradition Meets Innovation By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

 Editorial: Aamodt Continues to Raise Questions

Editorial: Acequia Blues

Editorial: Analysis Paralysis or Business as Usual?

Editorial: Be Prepared to Pay More for Your Water, Assuming There Is Any

Editorial: The Borrego Fire

Editorial: Bring Back Our Plazas

Editorial: Chinks in LANL's Armor?

Editorial: Collaborative Stewardship, R.I.P.

Editorial: Collaborative Stewardship - Where Do We Go From Here?

Editorial: Community Forestry - Troubled Times in Northern New Mexico By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: Culture Clash in the Forests of Northern New Mexico

Editorial: Deconstructing the U.S. Forest Service, Literally and Figuratively

Editorial: Disaster Capitalism, Full Circle

Editorial: Down the Legislative Black Hole

Editorial: Do We Really Need the 69K Transmission Line from Talpa to Peñasco?

Editorial: Fifty Years of Mismanagement with no Lessons Learned

Editorial: Has It Come Down to "Us versus Them"?

Editorial: Hombres Buenos

Editorial April 01

Editorial: Indian Water Rights Adjudications Continue to Continue

Editorial: Is the Forest Service Prepared?

Editorial: It's All About Money

Editorial: It's All One Big Water Grab

Editorial: Justice in the Middle East

Editorial: Maybe it's Time for the Peñasco Area Acequias to Organize By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: The Medical Industrial Complex

Editorial: Midterm Dysfunction

Editorial: Power in the Middle East

Editorial: Proposed Aamodt Settlement Continues to Unsettle

Editorial: National Sierra Club Censors Northern New Mexico Group

Editorial: "Opt Out" of Military Recruitment

Editorial: Organic Expo Demonstrates Commitment to Maintaining our Agricultural Lands

Editorial: Paying to Play in the Forest: More Than Meets the Pocketbook

Editorial: Politics as Usual in Rio Arriba County

Editorial: Public Welfare, To Be or Not To Be By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: The Forest Service Fiddles While the West Burns by Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: Ranchettes or Inhabited Wilderness?

Editorial: Redistributing the Wealth By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: Rio Arriba County Developments and Subdivisions: Second Homes for the Wealthy, Assuming There's Any Wealth Left

Editorial: Show Me the Water

Editorial: Sierra Club Vote on "Zero Cow" Initiative

Editorial: Speaking Truth to Power By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: State Engineer's "Proposed Active Water Resource Management Regulations"

Editorial: Taos County Rejects Plan for "Second Homes for the Wealthy"

Editorial: Taos Regional Water Plan Hijacked by the Powers That Be

Editorial: Techno-Fascism

Editorial: To Zone or Not To Zone, That is Peñasco's Question

Editorial Dec 00

Editorial Oct 00 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial Sep 00

Editorial Nov 99 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial Mar 99 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial Sep 98

Editorial: Unity Through Diversity Forum

Editorial: Us Versus Them, Otra Vez

Editorial: Valles Caldera Experiment Near Expiration

Editorial: The Wal-Martization of Northern New Mexico

Editorial: Water for Sale to the Highest Bidder

Editorial: Water on my Mind

Editorial: Water, Otra Vez

Editorial: Water Transfer Protests

Editorial: What About Comanagement?

Editorial: What is Worth Fighting For?

Editorial: Where are the Restoration Projects?

Editorial: Where oh Where is the Taos Regional Water Plan Now?

Editorial: Who Should Decide How Best to Manage Our Water?

Editorial: Whose Water is it Anyway?

El Bosque Preservation Action Committee Protests Rio Grande Corridor Plan

Environmental Politics in Northern New Mexico: Revisionist Spin Suggests "It's All Good"

Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group Sponsors Listening Session with New Mexico Environment Department

The Embudo Valley Regional Acequia Association is Official

Environmentalists File Lawsuit to Stop Agua/Caballos Timber Sale By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Federal Communications Commission Holds Public Hearing on Chimayó Cell Phone Tower

Forest Restoration Project Looks at on-the-Ground Conditions

Forest Service Hopes to Begin Salvage Project on Borrego Mesa This Summer

Forest Service Releases Proposed Action for Travel Management on the Carson National Forest

Forest Update

Hearings on Hazardous Waste Permit for LANL Ongoing

Hundreds Protest Santa Fe County's Application to Transfer Water to Supplemental Wells

Interstate Stream Officials Gather Input for State Water Plan

Interview with Daniel Shreck, Board Member of the Abelard Foundation and Resident of Chimayó By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Interview with Antonio DeVargas: Founding Member of La Companía Ocho By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Interview with Antonio "Ike" DeVargas: Logger, Community Activist, Rio Arriba County Planning Department By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with Jerry Rodriguez: Farmer, Rancher, Land Grant Activist and Taos County Employee By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with Lisa Krooth, Exective Director Community and Indian Legal Services, Formerly with the National Office of the American Civil Liberties Union By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with Michael Wolfson on the Canadian National Health Plan By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with U.S. Representative Tom Udall   By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview With Joe Gutierrez, Former LANL Employee

Interview with Journalist Jakob Schiller: Facts on the Ground in Palestine

An Intimate Look at the Valles Caldera Preserve

Is Another Devastating Fire Enough to Make Them Rethink the Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility?

Is the Fight for San Luis Valley Water Finally Over?

It's Time to Define Just Exactly What Public Welfare Means

Just What Does Constitute Forest Health?

Just Say No to the Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement Project

Keeping Land Productive: A Profile of Farmers in the Embudo Valley

Keynote Speaker at the New Mexico Farming & Gardening Expo Talks Revolution

KRZA Community Radio: Is it Meeting the Needs of El Norte?

La Jicarita News Enters It's 14th Year With Renewed Determination to See a Mission Change at Los Alamos National Laboratory

La Jicarita Story Updates

La Jicarita Wastewater Study Committee Commits to Developing Master Plan for the Watershed

La Montaña de Truchas at Work on the Santa Fe Watershed By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

La Montaña de Truchas: Restoration and Woodlot Program

Land Grant Representatives and Enviros Meet to Find Common Ground

Legislative Interim Committee Meets to Listen to Acequia Concerns

Local Acequias Set up Water Banking Program

Local Concerns Slipping Through Cracks as Forest Service Becomes More and More Centralized By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

A Look at the History of the Mother of All Water Rights Court Cases

A Look Back

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Northern New Mexico: A Codependent and Troubled Relationship

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Behemoth "On the Hill" By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Never Ending Vigilance

Los Alamos National Laboratory: "The Unleashed Power of the Atom"

Lower Rio Grande Adjudication Hearing on April 8

Marketing the Rain: Water for Sale to the Highest Bidder By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Mark Schiller, 1948 to 2010: My Co-Editor and Comrade in Arms

Martin Luther King III Comes to Town

Miranda Canyon Preserve Goes Before Taos County Planning Commission

Miranda Canyon Preserve Update

Maude Barlow, Author of "Blue Gold, the Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water," Comes to Santa Fe

The Mother of All Water Rights Court Cases

Mora Citizens Turn Out In Force at County Commission Meeting on Oil and Gas Development

Mora County Residents Gear Up to Fight Oil and Gas Drilling

National Fire Plan Funding: Where's the Accountability?

National Heritage Area Planned for Northern New Mexico

The Never Ending Aamodt "Unsettlement"

New Aamodt Settlement Proposal Continues to Cause Debate

New Developments in the San Luis Valley Water Wars

New Mexico Acequia Association Addresses Critical Water Issues at Annual Meeting

New Mexico Acequia Association Reorganizes to Better Serve Acequias and Acequia Parciantes

New Mexico Acequia Association Holds Annual Meeting

New Mexico Acequia Association Meets to Analyze Water Bills

New Mexico Supreme Court Finally Renders Opinion on Water Transfer Protest in Placitas

New Mexican Land Grants Organize for Action on Their Land Claims

New Southwest Regional Forester Meets with Community People and Local Forest Service Personnel in Truchas By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Northern New Mexico Ranchettes: The Land Grant Version By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Open House at the Sustainable Agricultural Science Center in Alcalde

Oral History: An interview with the Acequia Abajo de El Valle Commissioners and Mayordomo: Clarence Mascareñas, Arsenio Montoya, and Tomás Montoya By Kay Matthews amd Mark Schiller

Parciantes Reject Santa Fe County Offer to Settle Top of the World Water Transfer Protest

Peñasco Area Communities Land Use Plan

Pete Domenici's Toxic Legacy

Picuris Pueblo Demonstrates to Draw Attention to Proposed Mica Mine Expansion

Picuris Pueblo says "NO!" to Mica Mine Expansion

Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance Members Continue to Raise Serious Questions Regarding Proposed Settlement of the Aamodt Adjudication

Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance Position Paper on the Aamodt Proposed Settlement

Potential Hazards of Chemicals Used in Natural Gas Drilling Process

Proposed Aamodt Adjudication Settlement Continues to Unsettle

Proposed Rio Hondo Water Sharing Agreement

Proposed Valles Caldera Grazing Program

Protecting Our Cultural Landscape: Taking the Next Step

Putting Water to Beneficial Use

Putting Wood To Work: Forest Products Business Development Opportunities in North-Central New Mexico By Jan-Willem Jansens

Quivira Coalition Annual Meeting: Bridging the Urban/Rural Divide

Quivira Coalition Workshop - Herding: An Idea Whose Time Has Returned

Rafting Company Appeals Rio Grande Corridor Plan

A Report Called "State of the Southern Rockies: Greater San Juan-Sangre de Cristo Bioregion." Whose Report and to What Purpose?

Review of Miranda Canyon Preserve by Wildlands Watch

Richard Cook Challenges State Statute That Protects Acequias

Rio Arriba County Institutes Communication Tower Moratorium in Response to Community Concern

Rio Arriba County Institutes Moratorium on Development of Agricultural Lands

Rio Arriba County Commission Passes Ordinance to Protect Irrigated Lands

Rio Arriba Planning and Zoning Committee Dismisses Concerns of Chimayó Council on Wireless Technology

River Restoration Along the Banks of the Rio de las Trampas

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps at Work in El Valle

Rumblings on the El Rito Ranger District: More Grazing Reductions

Salt Cedar: Friend, Foe, or Excuse for Agency and Corporate Control

Sangre de Cristo Growers Revitalize Wheat Crops in Costilla Area

Sangre de Cristo Land Grant Activists Tell Their Story at the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Conmemoria at the Oñate Center

San Miguel del Vado Land Grant: The Loss of the Commons By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Santa Fe Veterans for Peace "Full Disclosure Recruiting" Team Again Visits Peñasco High School

Saving the McCarthy Ranch

Send in the Goats: They'll Eat Anything

Sierra Club Hears From Minorities Locally and Nationally

State Engineer's New Domestic Water Regulations Contested

State Legislative Interim Land Grant Committee Meets in Española

Status Hearing on Aamodt Adjudication Full of Surprise

State Property Tax Division Seeking to Enforce Restrictive Classification of Grazing Lands

A Statewide Conversation on Industrial Wind Facilities

Sustainable Communities/ZERI-NM: Collaborative Forest Restoration Project By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller  

Taos County Commission Approves Public Welfare Ordinance

Taos County Public Welfare Committee Meets for the First Time

Taos Regional Water Plan, Implementation Phase (We Hope)

Taos Regional Water Plan: Nearing Finalization

Techno Fascism, Otra Vez: National Animal Identification System Threatens Small Farmers and Ranchers

Thinning Project in Las Trampas Watershed

Tierra Wools - Community Development in Action

Turning Swords into Ploughshares: Opposition to Nuclear Weapons Production at LANL

Updates on Top of the World Water Transfer Protest & Aamodt Adjudication

The Valles Caldera: A Showdown on Public Lands Management By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Valles Caldera Coalition Members Meet New Trustee Tracy Hephner

Valles Caldera Preserve Gears Up For Another Grazing Season

Update on the Aamodt Adjudication Settlement

Update on Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000

Update on the Lower Rio Grande Adjudication

Update on Lower Rio Grande Adjudication, February/March 2011

Update on Miranda Canyon Preserve Proposal

Update on Placitas "Lomos Altos" Water Transfer Protest

Updates on Water Transfer Protests and Adjudications

Uranium Boom and Bust "Otra Vez"

Water and Natural Resources Legislative Interim Committee Comes to Española to Talk About Acequias

Water Banking Workshop Explores Ways to Maintain and Protect Acequia Communities

Water Transfer Protests Highlighted at NMAA Anuual Meeting

Water Update

West Rim Domestic Water Users Association Public Hearing

Where Have All the Superintendents Gone?

Betsy Martinez

Health Centers Celebrates 30 Years of Service

Kalliroi Matsakis

Op Ed: It's Time to Hold Los Alamos National Laboratory Accountable

Doug Meiklejohn

The Need for Public Participation in Regulatory Processes and The Sound Science Principle

Aspen Meleski

Amy Goodman Comes to Taos

Marching in New York City on the Second Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

Thousands March for Peace in Taos

Basia Miller

Center for Disease and Prevention Control Meets With New Mexico Community on Los Alamos National Laboratory Contaminant Releases By Basia Miller, Joni Arends, and Kay Matthews

Lynn Montgomery

Puntos de Vista: Our Tarnished Treasure, or Poor Old Threadbare New Mexican Agriculture

Catalina Muniz

Community Meets to Plan for Wastewater Treatment

John Nichols

Aamodt, Schmaamodt: Who Really Gets the Water?

Patrick O’Toole

Puntos de Vista

Eric Perramond

Appeal Peters Out: An Update on Las Acequias de Chupadero By David Correia and Eric Perramond

Poor Chupadero, so far from God, so close to Santa Fe By David Correia and Eric Perramond

Dan Quinn

The U.S. Forest Service at a Crossroads

Joanie Quinn

Organic Certification: What's Involved?

Bruce Richardson

Puntos de Vista Aug 99 By Bruce Richardson, President, Chimayó Crime Prevention Organization

Nova Romero

Cañada Maria Piñon/Juniper Restoration Project By Max Córdova, Jr. and Nova Romero

Truchas Montaña Youth Team By Nova Romero, Lito Martinez and Max Córdova Jr

Truchas Montaña Youth Team Meets with Forest Service By Max Córdova, Jr. and Nova Romero

John Ross

¡Stop Genetic Imperialism! Bio Piracy, Mutant Corn, Threaten Mexico's Food Supply

Miguel Santestevan

Puntos de Vista: Acequia Culture

Mark Schiller

Aamodt Water Rights Litigation: 35 Years of Controversy By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Abiquiu: Divisiveness & Discord

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 1

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 2: Manifest Destiny: Its Theoretical and Legal Underpinnings

A Brief History of the Middle Rio Grand Conservancy District, 1929-1938

Acequia Parciantes Assert Pre-Existing Rights on Federal Land By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Acequias Confront Forest Service Over Access Rights By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Acequias de la Sierra

The Adjudication of the Antonio Chávez Grant and the Overturning of the Presumption of Authority

Agriculture Revitalization Initiative By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews (with Paul White and Lynne Velasco)

A Moveable Feast: Mobile Matanza Comes to El Norte

A River Used to Run Through It

Book Review Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro By Harvey Frauenglass

Book Review: The River in Winter By Stanley Crawford

Book Review: Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Book Review: Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico By Jake Kosek

Book Review: Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico By Jake Kosek Reviewed by Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller (Part Two)

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 1

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 2: Manifest Destiny: Its Theoretical and Legal Underpinnings

American Imperialism, Part 3: The Mexican- American War

A Brief History of American Imperialism: Part 4: Implementing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

A Brief History of American Imperialism, Part 5: Racism and the New Mexico Territory

Camino Real Gets New District Ranger

Cañada de Cochiti: The Chicanery of Reducing a Legitimate Land Grant

Collaborative Stewardship on the Carson National Forest: Where We've Been and How Far We Have to Go By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Comanche Creek Restoration: Innovative Methods to Improve Habitat By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Commemoration of the Raid on the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Community-Based Forestry Alliance Organizes to Promote Economic Development and Restore Forest Health By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Community Coalition Fights For Environmental Justice

Community Speaks Out: LANL Expansion Proposal By Mark Schiller

Corrupt Surveyors General Contributed to Loss of Land Grants

Denial of Rocky Flat's Claim Raises Questions About the Entire Nuclear Workers' Compensation Program

Edge Habitat: Where Tradition Meets Innovation By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: Change We Can Believe In?

Editorial: Redistributing the Wealth By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: Collaborative Stewardship, R.I.P. By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: LANL Needs to Clean Up Its Mess, Not Add To It

Editorial: Public Welfare, To Be or Not To Be By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: "Bombplex" 2030

Editorial: Collaboration or Exploitation? You Be the Judge

Editorial: Getting Our Priorities Straight

Editorial: Norteño Communities Must Unite

Editorial: Speaking Truth to Power By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: Community Forestry - Troubled Times in Northern New Mexico By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial Oct. 04 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial: Land Grants and the Legacy of the New Deal

Editorial: Maybe it's Time for the Peñasco Area Acequias to Organize By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: Now is the Winter of Our Discontent

Editorial: Oglebay Norton Puts on a False Face

Editorial: Forest Terrorism

Editorial: What Would Jesus Do?

Editorial: Will the Real Forest Service Please Stand Up

Editorial: The Forest Service Fiddles While the West Burns By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Editorial: Picuris Pueblo - No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth

Editorial: The Forest Service - Bureaucracy Out of Control

Editorial: Forest Service Foreclosure Prompts Ranchers' Rebellion

Editorial: June 02

Editorial: The National Fire Plan

Editorial: The Santa Fe Watershed, How Much Analysis Is Enough?

Editorial: Adding Insult to Injury

Editorial: Tom Turney, Prophet or Pirate?

Editorial: Santa Fe Ski Area Containment Coalition Fights Latest Ski Expansion Proposal

Editorial: Maintaing Rural Communities in the Face of Development

Editorial: Land Grant Reparation: The Government Can't Just Buy It's Way Out of this One

Editorial: Another Water Transfer Protest: How Long Can We Keep our Finger in the Dike?

Editorial Oct 00 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial Sep 00

Editorial:An Ounce of Prevention

Editorial: Mica Mine Closeout Plan Masks Franklin Industrial Mineral's Real Intention

Editorial: Santa Barbara Grazing Allotment

Editorial Jul 00 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial Mar 00

Editorial Nov 99 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial Oct 99

Editorial Mar 99 By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Editorial Feb 99

Editorial Dec 98

Editorial Oct 98

Editorial Sep 1998

Editorial Aug 98

Embudo's Clovis Romero Named "Farmer of the Year"

Environmental Politics in Northern New Mexico: Revisionist Spin Suggests "It's All Good"

Environment Secretary Refuses to Renegotiate LANL Cleanup

Environmentalists File Lawsuit to Stop Agua/Caballos Timber Sale By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Enviro Injunction Imperils Grazing in New Mexico and Arizona

Forest "Circus" Tackles Invasive Plants

Forest Service Adds Insult To Injury With Latest Ski Area Decision

GAO Report on Land Grants Misses the Mark

GAO Report on Fuels Reduction Appeals Increases the Debate

Goodby to Summo Corporation on Copper Hill

Hearing on Roadless Area Proposal

High Road MarketPlace in Chimayó Promotes Local Arts and Crafts

Interview with Daniel Shreck, Board Member of the Abelard Foundation and Resident of Chimayó By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Interview with Antonio DeVargas: Founding Member of La Companía Ocho By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Interview with Antonio "Ike" DeVargas: Logger, Community Activist, Rio Arriba County Planning Department By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with Jerry Rodriguez: Farmer, Rancher, Land Grant Activist and Taos County Employee By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with Lisa Krooth, Exective Director Community and Indian Legal Services, Formerly with the National Office of the American Civil Liberties Union By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Interview with Michael Wolfson on the Canadian National Health Plan By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

La Montaña de Truchas at Work on the Santa Fe Watershed By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

La Montaña de Truchas Restoration Partnership Grant

LANL Toxic Legacy Threatens New Mexico Water Supply

La Sierra (Taylor Ranch) Management Plan About to be Released

Living In "Atomic Spaces"

Lobato Land Grant Heirs Seek Justice

Local Concerns Slipping Through Cracks as Forest Service Becomes More and More Centralized By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Locals Protest Mining Proposals

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Northern New Mexico: A Codependent and Troubled Relationship

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Behemoth "On the Hill" By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Loss of the Juan Bautista Valdez Grant: A Cautionary Tale

The Loss of Las Trampas Common Lands

Marketing the Rain: Water for Sale to the Highest Bidder By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Matthew G. Reynolds and the Adjudication of Spanish and Mexican Land Claims

Mobile Matanza Update

Mora Fish Hatchery Water Transfer Protest Goes to Hearing

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Opposes LANL Special Exposure Cohort Petition

New Southwest Regional Forester Meets with Community People and Local Forest Service Personnel in Truchas By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Northern New Mexico Ranchettes: The Land Grant Version By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller

Nuclear Workers Continue the Struggle for Compensation

Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process

Office of Nuclear Workers' Advocacy Strives to Help Sick Workers

Ombudsman's Report Confirms Workers' Complaints About EEOICPA

Oral History: An interview with the Acequia Abajo de El Valle Commissioners and Mayordomo: Clarence Mascareñas, Arsenio Montoya, and Tomás Montoya By Kay Matthews amd Mark Schiller

Organic Certification of Livestock: What Does It Take?

Pajarito Homesteaders Settlement Agreement Is "Unsettling"

Pajarito Plateau Settlers Assert Human Rights Abuses

Pecos River Watershed Alliance Takes Steps to Manage Growth

Peñasco Students Honor Our Elders

Picuris Pueblo Announces Intent to Sue Over Proposed Mica Mine Expansion

Picuris Pueblo Regains Ancestral Tribal Lands!

Picuris Pueblo Requests Hearing on Expansion of Mica Mine

Protecting Things We Cannot Bear to Lose

Pueblo Water Rights Doctrine Overruled by New Mexico Supreme Court

Ray Pacheco's "Value-Added" Goats

The Same Old Story

Sangre de Cristo Land Grant: It's History and Future

San Juan Agricultural Cooperative: Economic Development and Cultural Preservation

San Miguel del Vado Adjudication: A Template for Injustice

San Miguel del Vado Land Grant: The Loss of the Commons By Mark Schiller and Kay Matthews

Santa Barbara Grazing Allotment Rehabilitation: A Progress Report

Santa Barbara Permittees Take Grazing into the 21st Century

Santa Barbara Rehabilitation Project Completes Prescribed Burn

Santa Barbara Rehabilitation Project: Show Us The Work

Santa Barbara Restoration Project Update

Senators Mark Udall and Tom Udall Sponsor Bill to Reform EEOICPA

State Legislature Considers Strengthening Acequia Autonomy

State Opens Office of Nuclear Workers Advocacy

Surveyor General George W. Julian: A Summary of Findings

Surveyor General George W. Julian and the Presumption of Communal Property

Surveyor General George W. Julian: Reformer or Colonial Bureaucrat?

Sustainable Communities/ZERI-NM: Collaborative Forest Restoration Project By Kay Matthews and Mark Schiller  

Taos Valley Acequia Association and New Mexico Acequia Association Sponsor Conference

Taos Valley Acequia Association and Rio Chama Acequia Association Formalize Acequia Conservation Program

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: After 150 Years The Federal Government Remains in Denial

West Rim Mutual Domestic Water Users Association Proposed Water Transfer

Max Schiller

2007 Legislative Session: It's Finally Over By Kay Matthews and Max Schiller

Oral Histories: By Bud Córdova, Mary Bissell, Derick Arellano, and Max Schiller

Rich Schrader

Picuris Pueblo Releases Water Quality Data By Rich Schrader and Robert Gomez, Picuris Pueblo Environment Department

Eric Shultz

Rio Arriba County Upholds Gravel Mine Approval

Lorenzo Sotelo

Puntos de Vista

Tamara Teale

Book Review: Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Manuel Trujillo

Puntos de Vista Apr 99 delivered to a joint session of the NM State Legislature

Vicente Villareal

Puntos de Vista: Talking about Drugs and Alcohol In Peñasco

Fred Waltz

Adjudication of Water Rights Involving Acequias

Kay Weiner

A Critique of the Rio Grande Corridor Proposed Plan and Final EIS

Puntos de Vista: El Bosque - Limits or Expansion?

Courtney White

The Far Horizon: To Carl Pope, Executive Director, The Sierra Club

National Riparian Team Comes to Peñasco

Puntos de Vista Sep 00

Sierra Club Chapter Refuses To Participate in Bingaman's Roundtables

Dana Wise

Puntos de Vista


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