New Mexico Environment Department: $800,000 Available For Recycling, Illegal Dumpsite And Scrap Tire Cleanup
Los Ranchos Agri-Nature Center Grand Opening. Courtesy photo
NMED News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) is now accepting applications for fiscal year 2025 Recycling and Illegal Dumping (RAID) Fund grants for scrap tire management, illegal dumpsite abatement, recycling, and composting projects. Municipalities, counties, pueblos, nations, tribes, solid waste authorities, cooperative associations (as defined in the RAID Act), and land grant communities are eligible for funding.
A total of $800,000 will be available in the upcoming fiscal year. Two-thirds Read More
Los Alamos Field Office Finds No Impact To Floodplain From Waterline & Fiber Optic Cable Proposed Along N.M. 4
LANL News:
The National Nuclear Security Administration Los Alamos Field Office has determined there would be no long-term impacts to the floodplain as a result of projects to install a new waterline and fiber optic conduit and cable along N.M. 4.
The field office has issued a statement of finding for two projects by two separate proponents in Los Alamos County. Portions of the project are located on Department of Energy property.
One project is the construction and operation of a new water supply line within the right-of-way of N.M. 4 by Los Alamos County’s Department of Public Utilities.
The Read More
County ESB To Hold Hybrid Meeting Thursday
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Environmental Sustainability Board (ESB) will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21 in Council Chambers at 1000 Central Ave. and virtually on Zoom.
This meeting is open to the public.
Find the agenda to this meeting here.
Outstanding STEM Student Award Winners Honored At Nuclear Museum’s Einstein Gala
Will Boone, Bosque School
NMNSH News:
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, a congressionally chartered, Smithsonian-affiliated Museum recognized Holly Steen, a junior at Eldorado High School, and Will Boone, a senior at Bosque School for their submitted essays on their connection to science, technology, and engineering and mathematics.
The students were recognized at the Museum’s Einstein Gala held March 16, 2024.
“Both Holly and Will are exemplary models of students focused on STEM studies and careers,” said Jennifer Hayden, President and CEO at the National Museum Read More
Daily Postcard: View Looking West From White Rock
Daily Postcard: View looking west Tuesday from White Rock. Photo by VaLynn Purvis Read More
DOE And Triad Receive NEPA Clearance To Deploy Atmospheric Monitoring Equipment In Maryland
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and Triad National Security, LLC (Triad), the operating contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), are planning to deploy atmospheric monitoring equipment to support the Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE).
DOE and Triad conduct atmospheric and environmental research and monitoring activities by deploying mobile facilities and equipment (including weather balloons) for one-to two-year campaigns at locations throughout the U.S. This project will characterize the extent, radiative Read More
Mexican Gray Wolves Numbers Go Up, But Numbers Aren’t Whole Story … Population Still Dangerously Low
DWNM News:
FLAGSTAFF Ariz. — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service released the results of its 2023 wild Mexican gray wolf population count Tuesday, revealing that the number of wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico increased to a minimum of 257 wolves.
This development isn’t all positive, however, as the wild population’s genetic crisis becomes harder to fix as the population expands. While the Service continues to define recovery of the species according to the overall population count, conservation groups point to the lack of genetic diversity as a long-term threat to the species. Read More
More Than 450 Acres Of Piles Burned In Valles Caldera
A member of the NPS Pueblo Parks Fire Crew burns piles on South Mountain. Photo by B. Bolser/NPS
VCNP News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS – With winter concluding, the National Park Service has completed its prescribed pile burning in Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) for the season.
These burns are part of a prescribed burn project to reduce material left from previous forest thinning work.
Over the past three months, fire crews successfully burned piles across 297 acres on South Mountain and 162 acres in Sulphur Canyon, totaling 459 acres of successful fuel reduction in the park.
Fire crews are monitoring Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: March 19, 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
Our neighbor to the North, Colorado, got absolutely hammered with snow last week. Some communities received 60 inches of snow and two feet and more were common throughout the Central Rocky Mountains.
It’s been a good year for snow in Colorado and New Mexico. This will likely result in a strong spring runoff with heavy currents and murky water. Fishing these swollen rivers and streets can be challenging. A good tactic is to fish the edges of the current. Dropping your bait or fly into pockets of slower water behind streamside rocks and boulders Read More
Los Alamos-based UbiQD’s Quantum Dot Greenhouse Technology Wins 2024 SXSW Innovation Award And U.S. Department of Agriculture SBIR Grant
UbiQD CEO Dr. Hunter McDaniel, left, and Chief Product Officer Dr. Matt Bergren accepting their award at the 25th Annual SXSW Innovation Awards competition. Courtesy/UbiQD
UbiQD, Inc. was named winner in the What the Future (WTF) category of the prestigious 25th Annual SXSW Innovation Awards competition. Courtesy/UbiQD
UbiQD News:
- On the heels of being recognized at South by Southwest 2024 in Austin, the company was awarded a grant from the USDA to develop a new glass-based version of its QD greenhouse technology.
UbiQD, Inc., the New Mexico-based leader in quantum dot (QD) technology Read More
Withdrawal Of Revised Work Plan For Vadose Zone Moisture Monitoring 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:
- Withdrawal of the Revised Work Plan for Vadose Zone Moisture Monitoring at Material Disposal Area T at Technical Area 21, within the Nuclear Environmental Site
Daily Postcard: Raven Sits On Snow At Valles Caldera
Daily Postcard: A raven stands on top of a pile of snow Sunday at Valles Caldera National Preserve. Courtesy/VCNP Read More
Tax Law Provisions Open Solar Tax Credit To New Mexicans
SANTA FE — Now that Gov. Lujan Grisham has signed omnibus tax package for 2024 into law, the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) is preparing to accept a new wave of applications for its Solar Market Development Tax Credit Program.
The 2024 tax omnibus, House Bill 252, contains provisions that make the existing solar tax credit available to more New Mexicans.
Those provisions include:
- Raising the annual cap on the total amount of credits that can be issued to $30 million per tax year.
- Ensuring that tribal members who hold property in leasehold are eligible
Muffins, Waffles & More At Curbside Winter Market Thursday
Hazardous Waste Treatability Study Report For Calendar Year 2023 Added To LANL Electronic Reading Room
LANL News:
Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Electronic Reading Room.
The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Members of the public may view these documents and many others at LANL’s Electronic Public Reading Room. Read More
Amateur Naturalist: Springtime Clusters
Red colored clusters of flowers are emerging from a stem. Photo by Robert Dryja
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
March could be called the springtime clustering month. Both plants and animals begin to appear in different kinds of clusters as the weather begins to become warmer. A flower may emerge on tree branch as part of a group that grows close together. Picture 1 shows several clusters of red-colored flowers emerging on a tree stem. Pollen bearing anthers appear as red-colored stems coming out of orange colored sepals. What looks like a single flower at a distance is actually several small flowers Read More
DeVolder: Dead Trees On Bathtub Row
By MARK DEVOLDER
Los Alamos
Recently, I had an opportunity to look over the $5.5 million dollar “trail” running northward from Central. The wide concrete trail winds through some old-growth pine trees east of Bathtub Row. Given the size of the trees, I figure that they pre-date the Manhattan Project.
I began to wonder how the root system for the trees is going to collect water underneath the concrete trail.
In previous trips up to the Jemez Mountains, I have noticed pine trees along the road which were blown over by the wind. The exposed root ball on the trees is approximately 5 to 7 feet in diameter. Read More
Daily Postcard: View Of Cloudy Skies Over Truck Route
Daily Postcard: View Thursday morning of clouds in the hills above the Truck Route. Photo by VaLynn Purvis Read More
New Mexico Delegation Welcomes $64 Million To Modernize And Improve Grid Infrastructure
New Mexico Delegation News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) welcomed $64,362,000 in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development loans to increase access to clean, affordable energy by building and improving electric infrastructure across New Mexico.
Continental Divide Electric Coop will Read More
Scenes From Los Alamos Ski Club’s 2024 Skin-A-Thon
Scene from this morning’s Los Alamos Ski Club’s 2024 Skin-a-Thon at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. This is the 2nd annual 4-hour endurance event in which participants grab their skins, skis, boards (or any means of self-propelled transportation) and ski up and down Pajarito Mountain as many laps as they can or want within the 4-hours. Each lap consists of 1,000 vertical feet and ski down. While it is technically not a sanctioned ski mountaineering event (Skimo), it has a similar style. Skimo will be in the 2026 Olympics. Courtesy/Los Alamos Ski Club
Scene from Los Alamos Ski Club’s 2024 Skin-a-Thon Read More