Clare Reardon and her dad sledding today at Urban Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
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Bandelier Closed Today Due To Hazardous Conditions
BANDELIER News:
With all the snow and hazardous road conditions, Bandelier will be closed all day (Saturday April 29).
Weather permitting, Bandelier anticipates reopening Sunday. Read More
Bandelier Seeks Summer Youth Work Crew Applicants
Bandelier Preservation Corps crew with National Park Service preservationists. Courtesy/NPSBANDELIER News:
For several summers, crews of young people have done valuable service for Bandelier National Monument, working on trails, archeological sites, and other projects.
The Bandelier Conservation Corps and the Bandelier Preservation Corps are organized through the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and supervised by park staff. Both crews are now seeking applicants for this summer.
Bandelier Conservation Corps members will work on trails and other
Read More May Is Motorcycle Awareness Month
COMMUNITY News:
LANL’s Motorcycle Safety Committee would like to remind the residents of Los Alamos that May is “Motorcycle Awareness Month.”
This year, the Committee is driving safety awareness throughout our local community in the form of kid’s motorcycle safety awareness activity and coloring sheets.
Committee members designed and have distributed the sheets to local restaurants in the Los Alamos area and beyond. We hope that as you visit these establishments, you will take advantage of the safety sheets to promote motorcycle awareness
Read More Forest Service Plea To Visitors: Put Out Your Campfire
SFNF News:SANTA FE ― For the second weekend in a row, irresponsible campers left multiple unattended and abandoned campfires on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF).
Luckily, 11 still-burning campfires were discovered and extinguished before they could spark or spread.
But with the fire danger level on the SFNF at HIGH and most of northern and central New Mexico under a fire weather watch, it takes very little for a campfire to become a human-caused wildfire, putting lives and property at unnecessary risk.
Current
Read More Transforming Empty Parcel Into Rec Center
Rendering of proposed recreation center on DP Road. Courtesy/LACBy KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
One side of DP Road is a blank slate; a plot of land with a purpose yet to be determined. However, if voters pass the Recreation Bond question next month, this parcel could transform from an undefined space to the site of a new community recreation center.
Conceptual designs for the recreation center propose that it include two gymnasiums, an indoor walking/running track running the perimeter of the building, team locker rooms and a multi-use arena that would house a half-year indoor Read More
Improvements At Bandelier Include 55 Parking Spaces
Part of the new Cottonwood Parking Area at Bandelier National Monument. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Bandelier has 55 new parking places close to the Visitor’s Center in the heart of the park. The new spaces are on a narrow, paved road across Frijoles Creek from the existing parking lot and a newly-constructed bridge joins the two areas. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladaiypost.com
Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladaiypost.comBy MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post
Locals and return visitors alike will Read More
Aquatic Center Hosts Open Water Nights
It is quite a sight to see kayaks floating around Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Daniel Creveling practices the Eskimo Rollover maneuver that is used to right a kayak that has capsized. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
AQUATIC CENTER News:
The last Tuesday of each month, the Larry Walkup Aquatic Center hosts open water night and boaters are welcome to practice their boating skills.
The night begins with a thorough scrub down and rinse of the boats, then it’s into the water.
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Bandelier National Monument Seeks Public Input On Fire Management Plan
Prescription fire underway in Frijoles Canyon at Bandelier National Monument. Courtesy/NPSBNM News:
Bandelier National Monument has announced that the park is re-initiating a planning effort to prepare a new Fire Management Plan and Environmental Assessment.
The resulting plan will guide the full range of wildland fire program activities that will support land and resource management objectives. In 2013, Bandelier solicited public feedback regarding this Fire Management Plan. Now Bandelier is re-opening the public comment period in order to include
Read More $15 Million In Improvements Across Five Mountains!
SKI News:DURANGO, Colo. ― Resort officials with the largest ski area collective in the Southwest announced capital improvements that will be made for the 2017/2018 season at five southwestern mountains located in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, plus Colorado’s largest cat skiing operation.
James Coleman, managing partner of Purgatory Resort in Durango, Colorado; Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff, Arizona; Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort near Taos, New Mexico; Pajarito Mountain Ski Area
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