Environment

EMNRD Announces Changes In Hours, Access, Activities At Eagle Nest Lake And Heron Lake State Parks

Conditions at Heron Lake State Park make ice fishing accessible. Courtesy/EMNRD

EMNRD News:

SANTA FE — The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department’s (EMNRD) State Parks Division announces that Eagle Nest Lake State Park has reopened to walk-in ice fishing and has resumed normal day-use hours, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week.

The campground at Eagle Nest Lake State Park remains closed as part of seasonal closures.

Beginning Jan. 21, Heron Lake State Park also opened to walk-in ice fishing.

State Parks manages access to areas of parks in the interest of public safety and resource Read More

Daily Postcard: Homer And Edna Share Leafy Salad

Daily Postcard: Beloved community geese Homer, top, and his feathery companion Edna share a salad beneath the afternoon sunshine Saturday at Ashley Pond. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

New Mexico House Energy, Environment And Natural Resources Committee Passes Renewable Energy Bills

STATE News:

SANTA FE – Several important environmental bills passed the House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee today, paving the way for increased generation and storage of renewable energy and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

The three bills advanced by the committee would make renewable energy more accessible to working New Mexicans and businesses.

The Energy Storage System Tax Credit HB 11, sponsored by Representatives Debra Sariñana (D-Albuquerque,) Meredith A. Dixon (D-Albuquerque) and Sen. Mimi Stewart (D-Albuquerque), would help New Mexicans improve Read More

New Mexico Science/Tech Companies Receive SBIR Grants

Alexander Ukhanov PhD of Actoprobe LLC of Albuquerque. Courtesy/EDD

Emerging Technology Ventures, Inc. of Alamogordo. Courtesy/EDD

EDD News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Economic Development Department Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced that five New Mexico companies will receive New Mexico Small Business Innovation Research (NMSBIR) Matching Grants to help their businesses grow.

The NMSBIR Grant Program provides recipients additional resources to commercialize the technology developed using Federal SBIR funding. The NM SBIR Matching Grants are designed to support local science and Read More

Reps. Stansbury And Kim Lead Bill To Improve Wildfire Communications & Info Sharing Among First Responders

U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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

WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) and Young Kim (Calif.-39), who both serve on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, introduced the bipartisan National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Wildland Fire Communications and Information Dissemination Act (H.R. 6410) to boost communications and information sharing efforts between first responders, fire management response officials and community members during wildfires.

As prolonged drought conditions worsen Read More

Congressional Delegation Announces Over $60 Million Allocation For Water Infrastructure In New Mexico

New Mexico Delegation News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is allocating over $60 million to New Mexico projects from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to increase climate resilience and make long overdue water infrastructure improvements, as well as additional funds to help New Mexico and Tribes recover and become more resilient to natural disasters.

The funding is part of the Biden administration’s Read More

Daily Postcard: Mule Deer Buck Lounges In Snow

Daily Postcard: A mule deer buck lounges in the snow Thursday morning in an arroyo near the backyard of a residence in Los Alamos. The mule deer is indigenous to western North America and named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule. Source: wikipedia. Photo by Verena Welser

A mule deer buck nibbles on plants in snow Thursday morning in an arroyo near the backyard of a residence in Los Alamos. Photo by Verena Welser Read More

Scenes Of Flourishing Activities At Bosque Del Apache

Two Sandhill Cranes in the wetlands Monday evening at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs

Snow Geese gathering in a small lake Monday evening at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs

A Full Moon / Wolf Moon viewed early Tuesday morning at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs

Sandhill Cranes take flight at the Flight Deck area Tuesday morning at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs

Photographers brave the cold temperatures of 17 degrees and gather on the shoreline around Read More

New Mexico Clean Fuels Coalition Applauds Senate Bill 14

New Mexico Clean Fuels News:

ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Clean Fuels Coalition announced its support for the proposed New Mexico Clean Fuel Standard Act, SB 14, a priority bill of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that will be the state’s next step in reducing carbon emissions, fighting climate change, and developing a new economy in clean fuel production.

The bill, which is sponsored by Sen. Mimi Stewart (D – Bernalillo) and Rep. Nathan Small (D-Doña Ana), would require cleaner fuels for our cars and trucks, while establishing incentives for manufacturers of transportation fuels to produce Read More

Heinrich Applauds Progress On Recovering America’s Wildlife Act As House Bill Advances

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is applauding the House Natural Resources Committee for advancing the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act by a vote of 29 to 15.

Sen. Heinrich’s landmark bipartisan legislation, that now has over 32 bipartisan cosponsors in the Senate, will be among the largest, most significant investments in wildlife and habitat conservation.

“Preserving the health of our outdoors and wildlife has proven time and time again to be one of the most successful, nonpartisan issues to advance through Congress,”  Read More

A lifetime In Canyon Country – One ‘Wow’ After Another

Waterfall in the heart of Dark Canyon, Utah. Though a desert, the canyon country of southeastern Utah hides many an oasis. Pastel copyright Melissa Bartlett. Courtesy/Mountaineers

Los Alamos Mountaineers News:

Bill Priedhorsky, the Mountaineers’ Canyon Country veteran, will speak at the Mountaineers virtual January meeting, hosted by PEEC, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Priedhorsky has spent 43 years exploring slickrock and canyons in 124 multi-day trips. Something special about this part of the world keeps him, and so many other Mountaineers, coming back again and again. It is a country Read More

USDOT Announces More Than $10 Million In Tribal Transit Grant Awards To 36 Tribal Governments In Rural Areas

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

USDOT News:

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today awarded $10.3 million in Tribal Transit Program grant awards to 36 Tribal governments for projects that support transit services for American Indian Tribes and Alaska Native villages in rural areas. 

“Today’s announcement is an important step toward ensuring Tribal Nations have the transportation infrastructure they need and deserve,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “And thanks to the Bipartisan Read More

PEEC Nature Center And Century Bank Sponsor 2022 World-Famous Backcountry Film Festival Jan. 21-23

PEEC News:

The Pajarito Plateau’s premier environmental education museum is teaming up with one of New Mexico’s original financial institutions to bring the famous Backcountry Film Festival into Los Alamos living rooms again this year, Jan. 21-23.

The Backcountry Film Festival is produced by the Winter Wildlands Alliance as a celebration of all things snowy, winter and wild. This year’s backcountry skiing and adventure short films aim to inspire audience members across the world through stories about the impact and importance of our planet’s winter wildlands.

The Pajarito Environmental Read More

Daily Postcard: Homer And Edna Eating Lettuce At Pond

Beloved geese Homer and Edna are fond of romaine lettuce. This woman said she has been feeding the geese for a couple of years. There is another resident who said he has been feeding Homer romaine lettuce, bread and cracked corn every morning for 14 years. Photo by Don Lepsch Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Jan. 18, 2022

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

The good news this week is that Eagle Nest Lake has been opened for ice fishing. Arguably the best lake in the state among anglers who like to fish through the ice, it had resisted freezing thick enough to where it was safe to fish.

As stated in last week’s Fishing Report, this is a good time to visit Southern New Mexico, where temperatures are milder. The State Game and Fish Department conducts a Winter Trout Stocking Program which stocks catchable-size rainbow trout in most of the small lakes and streams in Southern New Mexico. Most of these Read More

NMDOT Releases Wildlife Corridors Action Plan Draft

NMDOT News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF) is releasing the Draft Wildlife Corridors Action Plan for public review.

The plan has been prepared in accordance with New Mexico Senate Bill 228, the Wildlife Corridors Act (Act).

The Act, signed into law by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2019, directed the NMDOT and the NMDGF to develop the plan for NMDOT roads statewide.

The plan identifies wildlife-vehicle collision hotspots that pose a particularly high risk to the traveling public. Read More

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