New Mexico & El Paso
By Carol Chamberland Chicago native Tom Petencin already loved the desert when he moved to Albuquerque circa 1992. He joined the New Mexico Mountain Club, hoping to meet fellow hikers and learn about places to explore. Eventually Tom realized there
By Jody Benson, Pajarito Group chair On a very hot June 18, during the Valles Caldera Marathon, a mother bear attacked marathoner Karen Williams, who ran too close to one of her cubs. The injuries required Williams to be transported
By Mona Blaber Seamster is chair of the Northern New Mexico Group. What is your role with Sierra Club? The chair of our group has many responsibilities: running monthly excom meetings, keeping members informed of group activities, submitting comments and
Teresa Seamster, Northern New Mexico Group There is not much to top spending a day in the late-summer sunshine, wading and checking the waters of some of our northern rivers. Eric and Nora Patterson are the linchpins of the Taos
By Robert Moss, Eco El Paso board member El Paso is again “The Sun City,” but it now has an opportunity to be “SolSmart” too. In a surprising settlement of its rate case in Texas, El Paso Electric in
By Rick LoBello, El Paso Group Executive Committee The El Paso Sierra Club Group and the Greater Big Bend Coalition are petitioning U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and President Obama to establish an international park
By Mary Katherine Ray, Chapter Wildlife chair The challenges to nature are daunting. The climate is changing. There are forces at work trying to sow doubt about the worldwide physical evidence that humans are causing these changes or, if we
Trapping wildlife is a relic of a time when species were extirpated to supply fashion across the world. It is long past time for the state to ban trapping.
By Miya King-Flaherty Chapter Public Lands fellow Despite a recent explosion that destroyed thirty-six storage tanks on July 11 in Nageezi, N.M., the Bureau of Land Management’s Farmington Field Office continues to lease lands and approve drilling permits. The BLM’s
By Miya King-Flaherty, Chapter Public Lands fellow On August 15, NASA released a report that affirms what we already know about the infamous 2,500-square mile methane cloud that hovers over the Four Corners area. Throughout oil and gas operations, methane