List/Grid Author Archives: John Fleck / Journal Staff Writer
Federal judge: Wait for US Supreme Court to act on Texas lawsuit before pursuing lower court action on Rio Grande management
US District Court Judge James O. Browning issued a stay this morning (Fri. 3/29/2013) in New Mexico’s lawsuit against the federal government over water management at Elephant Butte Reservoir in... Read more »
Thursday bird blogging, Rio Grande del Norte National Monument Edition
Judy Liddell, co-author of Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico, has the goods if you want to get a head start on a birdwatching visit to the newly designed... Read more »
New Mexico drought monitor: at least things didn’t get worse!
In what is becoming an increasingly depressing Thursday ritual, here’s today’s federal drought monitor map for New Mexico: Hey, at least it didn’t get worse this week.
Drought watch: Bureau of Reclamation begins releasing water for the silvery minnow
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation this morning began releasing supplemental water into the Rio Chama in an effort to keep the Rio Grande wet for the endangered Silvery Minnow. The... Read more »
Drought watch: Considering the ‘nuclear option’ on the Pecos
Felicity Barringer of The New York Times visits southeastern New Mexico, where lower Pecos farmers are among the state’s hardest-hit by drought: A priority call, an exceedingly rare maneuver, is... Read more »
John Wesley Powell’s watershed governance
John Wesley Powell is most famous for his early exploration of the Grand Canyon. But in the western water policy community, he is perhaps equally famous for his ideas of... Read more »
New Mexico’s runoff problem in two graphs
In a story for last Saturday’s paper, I pointed to the increasingly serious problems as New Mexico’s snowpack begins to melt out: The problem, according to Raymond Abeyta of the... Read more »
Naturalist warned about water woes early
"The winds are drifting sands here and there," John Wesley Powell said of his 1889 visit ...
Around the tubes
Some near-random links to things I found interesting on the Internet today: Mark Twain’s fan mail (yup, I’m a fan too, how can you not be?) Robert Osborne on Georgia’s... Read more »
New Mexico snowpack in 2013 worse than last year
Last year was a bad water year for New Mexico, but a series of then-and-now photos taken by the Brent Wachter at the Albuquerque National Weather Service office shows how... Read more »
