Environment

Lt. Gov. Howie Morales, Former AG Hector Balderas To Headline Event Commemorating 2nd Anniversary Of Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire

CFFF News:

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — The Coalition for Fire Fund Fairness (CFFF) – a grassroots coalition of victims of the 2022 Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire in Northern New Mexico – today announced that it will host an exclusive screening of the documentary “Mora is Burning,” followed by a panel discussion on the aftermath of the fire and FEMA’s ongoing failures to administer federal relief funds in accordance with state and federal law.

The event will feature remarks from former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas. New Mexico Lt. Gov. Howie Morales will headline the panel discussion, Read More

Proposed Floodplain Action For Regional Groundwater Monitoring Well SIMR-3 Added To LANL Electronic 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 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:

  • Notice of Proposed Floodplain Action for Regional Groundwater Monitoring Well SIMR-3 and Access Road Improvements, Public Comment Period Closes April 5, 2024 (Link)
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Valles Caldera Shares 2023 Annual Report

Black bear wanders through the cabin district at Valles Caldera National Preserve. Courtesy/C. Lycopolus NPS

VCNP News:

Jemez Springs — The National Park Service has shared the 2023 annual report of Valles Caldera National Preserve.

2023 was a year of achievement as the park’s dedicated team worked toward making Valles Caldera the premier national park unit within New Mexico.

Highlights of the year include holding public comment meetings on the long-range plan of the park, removing non-historic debris from the Sulphur Springs thermal basin, having one of our amazing volunteers receive Read More

Gibson: Large-scale Solar Power Is Coming To Los Alamos

By ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities

By late 2026, the majority of Los Alamos’s electric power will come from the sun! The County recently inked a 20-year deal to purchase power from a large photovoltaic field and battery bank to be built a few miles northwest of Farmington.

Remarkably, the new solar power will cost LESS than the coal- and gas-based power it replaces.

The project, called Foxtail Flats (the County did not name it), is being built near Farmington where it can tie into the electric transmission system formerly used by San Juan Generating Station. That Read More

Heinrich, Kennedy Lead Introduction Of Bipartisan Legislation To Restore Wetlands And Migratory Bird Habitat

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, and U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) Wednesday led 10 Senate colleagues in introducing bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) through 2028.

The legislation would also increase authorized annual funding for the program to $65 million.

NAWCA was originally enacted in 1989 to provide federal matching grants —in partnership with funding from state and local governments, private industry, and non-profit organizations—to Read More

Hazardous Waste Treatability Study Report For Calendar Year 2023 Added To LANL Electronic 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:

  • Hazardous Waste Treatability Study Report for Calendar Year 2023 (Link)

Members of the public with any questions, please contact N3B Los Alamos.

Produced by the Read More

Review, Demolition Notification For Fiscal Quarter Ending March 31, 2024 Added To LANL Electronic 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:

  • Review, Demolition Notification for Fiscal Quarter Ending March 31, 2024 and List of Buildings and Attachment of Hazardous Materials Descriptions Hazardous
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2024 Artist-In-Residence Program At Valles Caldera

Courtesy/VCNP

VCNP News:

Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) invites artists from all creative disciplines and genres to apply for the 2024 Artist-In-Residence program.

Artists that are part of Valles Caldera’s AIR program participate in a two-or three-week residency in a historic lodge during the summer months.

Valles Caldera National Preserve is one of more than 50 NPS sites that currently host an Artist-In-Residence program.

Application period for the summer 2024 program will open April 1, 2024.

Click here for program information on the Valles Caldera website.

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Weekly Fishing Report: March 27, 2024

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

This is the last week that you can legally fish using your current license. The new 2024-2025 license season begins April 1 (Monday). It will expire March 31, 2025.

Licenses can be obtained online or pur hated at license vendors throughout the state. They can also be purchased at State Department of Game and Fish offices.

If you currently have a Colorado fishing license, the same dates will apply.

Streamflows are slowly rising. Spring runoff has yet to really begin and is likely to still be several weeks away. It look like it will start peaking Read More

Daily Postcard: Early Morning View On Pajarito Mountain

Daily Postcard: The view early this morning at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area where because of all the snow, the season is extended to April 14. The community is invited to attend Easter Brunch 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31, followed by a huge Easter Egg hunt on the snow – one side for kids 7 and under; the other for 7+ with hundreds of easter eggs hidden on the slopes. Learn more here. Courtesy/PMSA Read More

Community Invited To Climate Action Plan Interactive Workshop

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Sustainability Manager Angelica Gurule, in collaboration with environmental consulting firm Cascadia, is inviting the community to an interactive workshop at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Council Chambers, 1000 Central Ave.

Gurule was tasked by the Los Alamos County Council in 2023 with developing a climate action plan to reduce the county’s greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainability.

The upcoming April 2 workshop will focus on reviewing the findings of the recently completed greenhouse gas inventory report that analyzed the sources and Read More

LANL: New Technology Improves Space Weather Monitoring

The Compact Space Plasma Analyzer will improve space weather prediction. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Peaceful though it may seem from Earth, space is beset by “weather” that can prove perilous for the sensitive — and expensive — technology aboard the spacecraft and satellites increasingly populating the realms outside our atmosphere. To meet that challenge, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have developed the Compact Space Plasma Analyzer, a small and cost-efficient space sensor capable of measuring space weather, which will help protect technology in orbit.

“Space weather, Read More

Submittal Of Site Treatment Plan Added To LANL Electronic 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:

  • Submittal of the Site Treatment Plan, Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Update and Proposed Revision 34.0, Federal Facility Compliance Order, October 4, 1995, Los Alamos
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New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division’s FY24 Outdoor Equity Funding Reaches $3.7 Million

Photo by Kiefer Garcia

Courtesy/Santo Domingo Pueblo

EDD News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division (ORD) of the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) has announced funding of $975,142 in new Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF) awards to 33 organizations.

These awards will be distributed to 16 rural, 13 urban, one land grant, and five Tribal communities. Of those awarded, 28 are first-time recipients of OEF funding. 

The first-of-its-kind Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF) was created in 2019 to enable all New Mexican youth equitable access to the outdoors. The grant supports programming Read More

EPA And NMED To Host Community Meeting On Chevron Questa Mine Superfund Site On Tuesday April 16

NMED News:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in cooperation with the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD), invites you to attend the community meeting for the Chevron Questa Superfund site.

The meeting will be held:

          • 5:30-7:30 p.m.;
          • Tuesday, April 16, 2024
          • VFW Post 7688
          • 2597 North Highway 522
          • Questa, New Mexico 87556

During the meeting, an update will be provided on current site activities and future cleanup work at the Questa Mine. Following the updates, a question‐and‐answer session will Read More

Post From The Road: San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Giraffes: Four giraffes gaze in different directions as they check out their surroundings at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park near Escondido, Calif. There were four other giraffes in the herd nearby. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Rhinos: Three rhinos spend a part of their afternoon next to a muddy pond at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The animals are living in a free range enclosure at the park. This enclosure is the largest enclosure in the park. (one rhino is on the ground behind the rhino on the left). Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos Read More

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