Environment

Advocates Deliver Message To Bureau Of Land Management To Cancel Lease Sale Of 10,000 Acres For Oil & Gas

Sierra Club News:

ALBUQUERQUE — Advocates delivered a letter Wednesday signed by over 200 local and national groups, businesses, unions and institutions to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field office in Albuquerque urging the agency to phase out oil and gas leasing.

Today, the BLM New Mexico State office plans to auction off over 10,000 acres of public lands to the oil and gas industry at the May 25th lease sale.

“People of faith are concerned that the current BLM leasing policy does not care for the Common Good or our communities or the sacred land, water, air and the future,” Sister Read More

PEEC Summer Family Evenings Begin Wednesday June 7

PEEC News:

With summer approaching, PEEC announces the schedule for Summer Family Evenings (SFE).

SFEs take place Wednesdays in June and July at Los Alamos Nature Center. They start at 6 p.m. and provide fun for the whole family. SFEs are free for PEEC member families and $5 for non-member families and admission is paid at the door.

Thanks to the Del Norte LOV Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Del Norte Credit Union, for sponsoring Summer Family Evenings in 2023.

Check out what PEEC has scheduled for June: 

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(VIDEO) Commissioner Garcia Richard Testifies On Proposed BLM Rule To Prioritize Health Of Public Lands To U.S. House Subcommittee

STATE News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard testified today to the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations regarding a rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management to consider “conservation” a public land use and prioritize the health and ecosystems of those lands. Commissioner Garcia Richard’s testimony today focused on the fragmented nature of public lands in New Mexico, and how conservation leasing could be on par with the State Land Office’s approach to honor its mission to earn money Read More

LAHS Junior Daniel Kim Shines At 2023 ISEF In Dallas

LAHS junior Daniel Kim placed 3rd in Environmental Engineering at the 2023 ISEF in Dallas, Texas. Courtesy/LAHS

LAHS News:

Daniel Kim, a junior at Los Alamos High School (LAHS), placed 3rd in Environmental Engineering at the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Dallas, Texas.

His project, Engineered Underwater Vehicle for Ocean Litter Mapping, was one of 86 competing in this category.

“In my project, I engineered an underwater vehicle to collect footage of the ocean, and a machine learning computer program to analyze the collected footage for ocean trash,” Read More

Cornell Lab Of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID App Achieves Worldwide Coverage

Courtesy/Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology News:

Ithaca, NY—The free Merlin Bird ID app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology just hit a major milestone. This digital field guide and ID assistant can now help users identify birds in any country—a grand total of 10,315 species. Merlin provides detailed descriptions, photos, and sounds of each bird, and innovative features to help users identify what they saw.

“The original idea for Merlin was all about helping you figure out ‘What’s that bird I’m seeing’ in a quick and simple way,” Read More

LANL: Did Rising Seas Play Role In Viking Abandonment Of Greenland Settlements?

Science: Did rising seas play a role in Viking abandonment of Greenland settlements?

The Vikings’ final disappearance from Greenland remains enigmatic. Historians and archaeologists attribute their departure to a range of environmental factors—worsening weather in a changing climate, flooding, erosion, shrinking markets for walrus ivory (a staple trade good) and ongoing conflict with the indigenous Inuit people. The story, it turns out, is a bit more complicated. New research adds another, surprising factor: Sea-level rise, driven counterintuitively by advancing glaciers, may
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Weekly Fishing Report: May 23, 2023

View of Abiquiu Lake in 2020 showing lower water level. Photo by George Morse/ladailypost.com 

View of Abiquiu Lake Wednesday showing a higher water level. Photo by George Morse/ladailypost.com

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

Something is happening at Abiquiu Lake and it’s looking good.

After suffering from low water levels the last several years due to a prolonged drought, the reservoir on the Chama River in Northern New Mexico has finally been able to keep some water behind its dam and increase the size of the lake.

Boaters can now use the boat ramp without a four-wheel Read More

Stansbury, Padilla Lead Lawmakers In Bicameral Resolution To Join United Nations Convention On Biological Diversity

U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury

From the Office of U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity and more than one million species are threatened with extinction, U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (Calif.) led a group of 12 Members of Congress in introducing a concurrent resolution expressing the need for the U.S. Congress to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity.  

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is the international legal instrument that encourages actions Read More

Well R-44 Report Added To LANL Public Reading Room

LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • Well R-44 Maintenance Report (Link)
  • Submittal of the Investigation Report for Lower Water/Indio Canyons Aggregate Area, Revision 1 (Link)

Members of the public Read More

Scenes From PEEC & DPU 2023 Water Festival

Elementary school students take part in the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) and Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities Water Festival Friday at the Unitarian Church. The festival, which began Thursday, educated students on everything from sustainability to local water infrastructure. Here, Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Oliver Oviedo, center, uses a model to demonstrate erosion and water filtration in the soil. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Students participate in an exercise that demonstrates water surface tension during the PEEC-DPU’s Read More

MFA Receives $1.3 Million From New Mexico Gas Company For Home Energy Efficiency Improvements

MFA News:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA) recently received an additional $1,300,000 in funding from New Mexico Gas Company for the New Mexico Energy$mart Weatherization Program.

This program aims to offer energy-saving installations and home modifications to homeowners or renters, without any associated costs.

Eligibility is determined by household income, for example, a household of four can earn up to $60,000 annually to qualify. Priority is given to households experiencing a high energy burden, families with children under the age of 5, individuals aged Read More

Luján, Sinema, Cornyn Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Protect Endangered Wolves, Support Southwest Ranchers

U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Wolf and Livestock Fairness (WOLF) Act to provide full reimbursement to ranchers for livestock harmed by endangered Mexican gray wolves.

Once common throughout parts of the Southwestern United States, the Mexican wolf was all but eliminated from the wild due to conflicts with livestock. In 1998, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service began recovery efforts in Arizona and New Mexico. However, livestock production—mostly cattle Read More

NMED Provides Funds To Goodwill Industries To Go Electric

A zero emission Nikola Motors electric semi-truck. Courtesy/NMED

NMED News:

ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) awarded Goodwill Industries of New Mexico $464,996 in grant funding to reimburse partial funding for two zero emission Nikola Motors electric semi-trucks. These new semi-trucks, used by Goodwill Industries for its operations and transportation hub, will replace older diesel engines with electric engines that do not produce any tailpipe emissions.

Over the lifetime of the vehicles, diesel fuel use will be reduced by 46,507 gallons with the added benefit Read More

Heinrich Announces ‘Kids To Parks Day’ Resolution

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the National Parks Subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Shelly Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Cory Booker, (D-N.J.) to announce their bipartisan resolution that encourages children to get outdoors and promote healthy outdoor recreation by designating May 20, 2023 National Kids to Parks Day.

First celebrated Read More

Daily Postcard: Bear Captured On Camera In Quemazon

Daily Postcard: An outdoor camera captured a bear early Saturday evening sauntering around the driveway of a home in Quemazon. The bear checked out a trash can outside the residence, but it didn’t contain any discarded food so the bear moved on to parts unknown. Luckily, discarded food at this residence is kept in the garage in another airtight trash can until trash day. Photo by Gary Lauten Read More

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