Environment

Elk Families Roaming Near Mobile Home Park On East Jemez

Elk families with calves are out and about Thursday near Elk Ridge Mobile Home Park on East Jemez Road. Drivers are reminded to keep watch for the elk and drive carefully through the area. Photo by Pat Kestell

Elk families out and about Thursday near Elk Ridge on East Jemez Road. Photo by Pat Kestell Read More

SFNF Rescinds Rincon Fire Closure Order

SFNF News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) Friday rescinded the Rincon Fire closure order that restricted access to a portion of the Pecos Wilderness to protect public health and safety during fire operations.

The closure order went into effect June 16.  

The restricted area under the closure order was roughly defined by Jacks Creek Trail #257 and Beatty’s Trail #25 on the west to Skyline Trail #251 on the north to the Pecos Wilderness boundary on the east to Lone Pine Mesa Trail #214, El Porvenir Trail #247 and Skyline Trail #251 on the south, then heading north to Iron Gate Trailhead Read More

State Police Divers Recover Flood Victim’s Body In Carlsbad

NMSP News:

CARLSBAD — At around 10 p.m., June 29, 2021, the New Mexico State Police (NMSP), was alerted to a vehicle that drove into flowing floodwaters near the intersection of Boyd Drive and Monterrey Road in Carlsbad.

The initial investigation indicates that a 2003 Jeep Wrangler driven by John Paul Koch, 63, of Carlsbad was traveling west on Radio Boulevard.

For unknown reasons, Koch drove past road-closed barricades and into flood water that was rapidly flowing over the roadway.

The Jeep overturned several times and was swept away in the Dark Canyon Draw Arroyo.

First responders from the Read More

Bighorn Sheep Spotted At Rio Grande Gorge Bridge

Bighorn sheep spotted Thursday grazing on the southeast corner of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. The ‘Gorge Bridge’ is a steel deck arch bridge across the Rio Grande Gorge 10 miles northwest of Taos. At roughly 600 feet above the Rio Grande, it is the 10th highest bridge in the United States. Source www.taos.org. Photo by Laurie Waters

Bighorn sheep graze Thursday on the southeast corner of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Photo by Laurie Waters Read More

PEEC: New Class Discovering Nature Through Journaling

Discover the world around you through journaling in a new class from PEEC. This class will be taught by Terry Foxx and Sue Watts 5:30-7 p.m., Tuesdays in July at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Discover the world around you through journaling in a new class from the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC).

During the month of July, Terry Foxx and Sue Watts will teach a class on how to slow down, observe, become curious and connect with nature through journaling.

This four-week class will meet 5:30-7 p.m. every Tuesday in July at the Los Alamos Nature Center (starting Read More

Daily Postcard: Full Strawberry Moon Over White Rock

Daily Postcard: The full Strawberry Moon glowing brightly Friday over White Rock. The Strawberry Moon appeared  full for about three days. June’s full moon, known as the Strawberry Moon, came a day after the moon reached the closest point in its orbit around the Earth, making it the second and last ‘‘supermoon’ of the year. This name has been used by Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota peoples, among others, to mark the ripening of ‘June-bearing’  strawberries ready to be gathered. Source: Old Farmer’s Almanac. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More

Scenes From Ribbon Cutting Ceremony At Rover Park

White Rock resident Hattie Willard, 9, helps cut the ribbon on the new playground equipment Monday at Rover Park in White Rock. She is joined by Los Alamos County Council Chair Randall Ryti, other officials and young attendees and the County crew that installed the new equipment. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos County Councilors at the Rover Park ribbon cutting ceremony Monday, from left, David Izraelevitz, Denise Derkacs, David Reagor and Chair Randall Ryti. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Following the ribbon cutting ceremony Monday on the new playground equipment Read More

Los Alamos County Ends Stage 1 Fire Restrictions

LAFD Fire Marshal Wendy Servey

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos Fire Department Fire Marshal Wendy Servey announced today that she is ending Stage 1 Fire Restrictions for Los Alamos County, effective Wednesday, June 30.

“Thanks to recent and plentiful rainfall, our threat of wildfire has dropped considerably this week,” Servey said, adding that typically Los Alamos receives most of its annual rainfall between July and September.

“I would like to thank our residents for their support of the Stage 1 restrictions while they were in effect, and ask everyone to continue to be careful if building campfires Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society Hosts Trinity Site Guided Tour

Los Alamos Historical Society News:

“…magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. … light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun.”—Brig. Gen. Thomas Farrell, describing the Trinity Test of July 16, 1945. 

In the northern reaches of the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range and 220 miles south of Los Alamos, the first-ever atomic device was detonated. Now a National Landmark Historical Site located behind the fences of the vast US Army White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site will be open Oct. 2, Read More

NNSA Approves Critical Decision 1 For Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has announced the approval of the Critical Decision 1 (CD-1) milestone for the recommended approach to produce at least 50 plutonium pits per year for the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) project at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

CD-1 approval marks the completion of the project definition phase and the conceptual design as part of DOE’s Order 413.3B process for the acquisition of capital assets.

The CD-1 cost estimate for SRPPF is $6.9 – $11.1 billion, Read More

Daily Postcard: American Robin Snacks On Cherry

Daily Postcard: An American Robin snacks on a fallen cherry Monday in White Rock. ‘American Robins eat different foods throughout the year. In the spring and summer the diet is high in protein with insects and worms consisting of 40 percent of the bird’s diet. They eat fruit year round, with favorites being cherry, dogwood, grape, red cedar, blackberry, holly, blueberry, elderberry. spicebush and viburnums.’ Source: dnr.maryland.gov. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More

Los Alamos ScienceFest 2021 Returns July 6-11 For Hybrid Event, ‘Discovery Boxes’ Available For Reservation

Los Alamos MainStreet News:

Los Alamos ScienceFest returns this year Tuesday, July 6 through Sunday, July 11 for a hybrid event that will feature both virtual and in-person Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) activities.

The annual Los Alamos ScienceFest, now in its 14th year, will highlight the community’s role at the forefront of science and technology research and innovation – from space exploration to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The July event will cover educational topics for the whole family. The goal: make science fun, more accessible and easy-to-understand, and Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: June 29, 2021

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports & Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

The weather forecast  this week is for cooler temperatures with a good chance of significant precipitation. It couldn’t come at a better time with the Fourth of July weekend coming up.

We all know the Fourth of July and fireworks go hand-in hand. Despite being prohibited in many areas and on all federal lands; there is always going to be someone somewhere setting off fireworks.

The weather for most of June had been hot and dry, so there was justified concern over the possibility of a wildfire being ignited. Although the recent moisture will Read More

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