Rio Grande Chapter

By Richard Barish
Bosque Action chair In February, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry plowed a trail through the Bosque with no advance notice to anyone. A public outcry ensued. As a result, in March, the City, the Sierra Club, and the Bosque Action Team negotiated procedures to allow adequate public input into future Bosque projects. The agreement was unconditional and not dependent on enactment into law, but City Councilors Isaac Benton and Ken Sanchez thought it would be a good idea ...

By Ray Powell
Former State Land Commissioner A life worth celebrating! Jeffrey William Potter, an active member and leader of our Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, died on Dec. 3, 2015, from brain cancer. Jeff was born in Los Alamos, on June 30, 1955. He graduated from Los Alamos High School, the University of New Mexico (B.A. fine art and B.S. biology) and the University of Georgia (M.S. Biochemistry). He retired from the UNM Cancer Center as a research ...

By Teresa Seamster, Northern Group chair The 2015 State Wildlife Action Plan took two years to develop and was prepared with the cooperation of many state partners, such as Natural Heritage New Mexico at UNM, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at New Mexico State University, state Forestry and the Surface Water Bureau. A simple request for a 10-year renewal of federal funding for the Wildlife Action Plan suddenly took on aspects of a showdown between Game commissioners and the ...

The City has now revealed what its public process will be for the extension of its trail north of I-40 to Campbell Road this winter.  As you probably know by now, the administration reneged on its agreement to follow a process that had been negotiated and agreed to by the administration, the Sierra Club, and the Bosque Action Team. This agreement would have provided for two public meetings and two thirty-day comment periods. First, the City will continue to take comments on ...

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12/3/2015. As climate negotiators met in Paris for COP21, the Albuquerque Climate Coalition marched and sang clean energy carols at the Nob Hill ‘holiday shop and stroll’ to gather petition signatures for 100% clean renewable energy by 2050.
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On December 3, we rallied with 350NM and with Santa Fe climate coalition partners to celebrate the ‎Paris agreement and push for ‎Clean Energy Solutions. And we sang clean climate carols like Paneles Solares ...

Sunday, December 13, 2015 was the Third Annual Bosque Bash, to celebrate successes and plan for the future. [nemus_slider id=”2502″] ...

On December 12, we rallied with 350NM and Santa Fe coalition partners to celebrate the #Parisagreement and push for 100% #CleanEnergy. It was cold and rainy, but the marchers were clearly celebrating progress. [nemus_slider id=”2488″] For more climate march photos, visit 350NewMexico’s Facebook album ...

At its November meeting, the New Mexico Game Commission decided not to decide on the Ladder Ranch permit to hold endangered Mexican gray wolves. Previously, the commission denied the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a permit to import and release wolves into New Mexico. But because the Endangered Species Act is a federal law, it trumps state and local laws, according to the U.S. constitution. The U.S. Department of the Interior has given the green light to the Fish and ...