The Pecos has been caught between landowners who say they want to protect their properties and would-be recreationists.
The action removes 2,500 acres from mining development but leaves much of the largely federally owned watershed unprotected.
SANTA FE — New Mexico's commissioner of public lands banned mining on state land in the Upper Pecos Watershed, a move meant to pressure the federal government to follow through on similar protections ...
The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...
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