Public Lands Day Hike Highlights Reasons For Protecting Thompson Peak Recommended Wilderness Area From Mining
NMW News:
PECOS — In celebration of National Public Lands Day, New Mexico Wild was joined Sunday by State and Federal Government Officials, the Upper Pecos Watershed Association, and local community members on a hike to the Recommended Wilderness Area of Thompson Peak (Glorieta Baldy).
This hike allowed members of the public, community leaders, and policymakers the opportunity to see the land that is at risk if Comexico is allowed to proceed with their exploration for mining operations.
“The area within the Thompson Peak Recommended Wilderness Area (Glorieta Baldy) is a beautiful and sacred Read More
Daily Postcard: Foggy Fall Morning At Valles Caldera
Daily Postcard: A foggy fall morning Monday at the Missing Cabin near the entrance gate of Valles Caldera National Preserve. Courtesy/G. Farrell Read More
New Mexico Museum Of Space History Welcomes Graphic Artist Alika Arisumi To Staff
Alika Arisumi
NMMSH News:
ALAMOGORDO — The New Mexico Museum of Space History has announced Alika Arisumi as its newest staff member. Arisumi, a long-time Alamogordo resident, began his new position July 25 as graphic artist at the museum.
Arisumi has always been passionate about graphic design. At the young age of 12, he was gifted with Photoshop software by his father and used it, not to edit photos, but to design creative works.
“We’re delighted to welcome Alika to the museum and look forward to him bringing his passion and talent for graphic arts to improving our exhibits and our facility,” Read More
DOI Leaders Celebrate National Public Lands Day
Badlands National Park protects rugged buttes, pinnacles and spires surrounded by a mixed-grass prairie. Photo by William Green. Courtesy/DOI
DOI News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Department of the Interior (DOI) leaders visited public lands across America Saturday to celebrate National Public Lands Day and highlight President Biden’s America the Beautiful initiative, a locally-led effort to conserve 30 percent of America’s lands and waters over the next decade.
National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer event for public lands, held annually on the fourth Saturday Read More
Group Protecting Caja Del Rio Plateau In New Mexico
CLF News
SANTA FE — The community-led campaign to protect one of the most ecologically rich and culturally significant landscapes in the Southwest today released a multi-media collection of stories and a virtual field trip as part of the effort to connect the broader public with Tribal representatives and others closely connected to the special landscape of the Caja del Rio Plateau.
Located just a few miles outside of Santa Fe, the Caja del Rio Plateau holds deep historical value and continues to remain of vital importance to the Pueblo people of the middle Rio Grande. The Caja StoryMap brings Read More
Interior Department Announces Next Steps To Address Drought Crisis Gripping The Colorado River Basin
DOI News:
SANTA FE — As the worsening drought crisis continues to impact communities across the West, senior leaders from the Department of the Interior are outlining new and urgent actions to improve and protect the long-term sustainability of the Colorado River System.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton are attending the Colorado River Symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this week to highlight steps the Department is taking and Read More
Jordan Clancy Takes Helm At Adelante Consulting
Adelante Consulting President Jordan Clancy
ADELANTE CONSULTING News:
Jordan Clancy has been promoted to president at Adelante Consulting, after serving as the company’s chief financial officer since 2021.
Clancy began his career at Macpherson Energy Corporation, holding various positions in finance, accounting and business development. Among his many projects, he was project controller and executed the $50 million (24-month) coal to biomass conversion of the 49.5 MW Mt. Poso Cogeneration facility in Kern County.
He also helped develop a pathway under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Read More
SFNF Hiring Temporary Workers For 2023 Fire, Field Season
SFNF News:
SANTA FE — The Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) is hiring temporary positions for the 2023 season.
Proposed start dates would be in April 2023. Applications are only accepted through www.usajobs.gov, beginning Thursday, Sept. 29 through Thursday, Oct. 6.
Review the job announcement carefully for deadlines and required information to include in your application.
To find contact information and learn more about the positions advertised on the SFNF and across the Southwestern Region and find helpful hiring tips and resources and information about benefits, visit the Southwest Read More
Oak Ridge Crews Begin Deactivating Massive Facility At Y-12
A view of the Alpha-4 facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge. EM crews are in the early stages of removing all utility sources to the building prior to tearing down the facility. Courtesy/DOE
DOE News:
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — EM crews are taking the first steps to bring the massive Alpha-4 facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) to the cold-and-dark stage, a process in which they remove all utility sources to the building as a precursor to demolition.
This project moves EM closer to addressing one of the largest high-risk buildings at the site. It also marks the third Read More
Heinrich, Leger Fernández Lead Bicameral Bills To Approve Water Rights Settlements For Four Pueblos
Congressional News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) introduced two bills to approve the water rights claims of the Pueblos of Acoma, Jemez, Laguna and Zia, as well as participating non-Tribal parties.
Both pieces of legislation introduced in the Senate and House would implement two fund-based water settlements: one between the Pueblos of Jemez and Zia, the United States, the State of New Mexico, and non-Tribal parties; and another between the Pueblos of Acoma and Laguna, the United States, the State of New Mexico, and non-Tribal Read More
Idaho, WIPP Observe Safety-Focused Day To Affirm Waste Shipping Relationship
EM personnel from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant met last week for a day focused on safety at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex at the INL Site. They reviewed transuranic waste shipping procedures and reaffirmed their commitment to safety and open communication. Courtesy/DOE
DOE News:
EM crews at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) jointly observed a day focused on safety last week to review transuranic (TRU) waste shipping and receipt procedures, reestablish their commitment to safety and Read More
Daily Postcard: Western Scrub Jay Snacks On Berries
Daily Postcard: A Western Scrub Jay snacks on berries and seeds in a yard Sunday in White Rock. Photo by Dave Lannen Read More
Posts From The Road: Dinosaur National Monument
Quarry Exhibit Hall: The Quarry Exhibit Hall is home to the ‘Wall of Bones’ , which contains hundreds of dinosaur fossils. The quarry began in 1909 when Earl Douglass discovered exposed dinosaur bones in the area. The current visitors center and Quarry Exhibit Hall opened in 2011. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Exhibit Hall and Cliff: A view of the excavated cliff revealing dinosaur bones on the interior of the exhibit hall and the exterior where no excavation has been performed. The site became Dinosaur National Monument in 1915. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Bones: Dinosaur Read More
Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions Partners To Implement Broadcast Burn On Private Land In McKinley County
CGE News:
SANTA FE — Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions is partnering with the Forest Stewards Guild (the Guild), The Ember Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, McKinley County, and a diverse group of collaborators to implement a broadcast burn on up to 120 acres of private land in McKinley County this fall season.
Ignitions are expected to be conducted over 2-3 days with potential smoke impacts over 4 days.
Patrolling of the burn area will continue as needed. The burn team will select specific ignition days based upon current fuel moisture and weather at the burn site, as well as future forecasts. The Read More
Summit Garden Club Thanks Los Alamos Community
The Summit Garden Club would like to thank the Los Alamos community, especially Gillian Sutton, of Flowers by Gillian, and the United Church, for its support of their recent plant sale. The Summit Garden Club was able to meet the goal of funding its annual scholarship to a Los Alamos High School senior and also had the joy of seeing many people so pleased with their new plants. Courtesy/Judy Magelssen
Scene from the Summit Garden Club’s recent plant sale. The Summit Garden Club thanks the Los Alamos community for its support of their recent plant sale. Courtesy/Judy Magelssen Read More
LANL News Roundup For Week Of Sept. 19, 2022
Science: Brewing beer at the speed of sound
Brewing beer might be a novelty at Los Alamos, but the physics of materials is a longstanding specialty. So, a Laboratory research team developed the SoniView acoustic sensor system to offer brewers a unique solution to a long-standing problem. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of Sept. 19, 2022.
Celebrating 50 years of mission-essential research
For more than 50 years, the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center — the Laboratory’s linear accelerator Read More
Daily Postcard: Season For Rose Gardens Winds Down
Daily Postcard: The season for roses is winding down in a garden along Grand Canyon Drive in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Heinrich: Get Outside On Public Lands Day
By SEN. MARTIN HEINRICH
New Mexico
Today is National Public Lands Day, a great time to visit one of New Mexico’s incredible national parks, monuments, forests, and wilderness areas—most have waived their entrance fees to mark the occasion.
The outdoors has always been at the center of my life. When other kids were playing baseball, I was catching snapping turtles to keep as pets. After college, I served in AmeriCorps with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in New Mexico and worked on the effort to restore the Mexican wolf. Later, I became an outfitter guide, taking young people into the backcountry Read More
Savannah River Site Set To Decommission Building Used To Produce Space Program Fuel
An aerial view of the 235-F Facility at SRS. EM is set to decommission the building. Courtesy/DOE
DOE News:
AIKEN, S.C. — EM is slated to decommission a building at the Savannah River Site (SRS) containing residual plutonium once used to power deep space missions after workers finished deactivating the facility.
Blast resistant and windowless, the former material storage building known as Building 235-F has been inactive for more than 25 years. One section of the two-story concrete building, known as the Plutonium Fuel Form Facility, was used to make fuel spheres and pellets out of plutonium-238 Read More
New Mexico Tech Announces Hydrologic Center, Dedicates Deju University House
NMT News:
SOCORRO — Improving the understanding of water resources and the management of those resources is the aim of a new national hydrologic innovation center at New Mexico Tech.
The university launched the Hantush-Deju National Center for Hydrologic Innovation at an afternoon ceremony Fridday, at the Raul and Shari Deju University House, a new facility on campus that was officially opened at a morning dedication ceremony.
Named for alumnus and philanthropist Dr. Raul Deju and his wife Shari Deju, the Deju University House is a 5,200-square-foot facility located on the north side of Read More
