New Mexico Mercury

Insight New Mexico - Eleanor Bravo

V.B. Price talks with Eleanor Bravo, Senior Southwest Organizer for Food and Water Watch, about the impact and scale of fracking in New Mexico.

Ensuring that Sportsmen Continue to Have Access to America’s Public Lands

I have always loved the outdoors, the peace and tranquility from connecting with nature is a refuge from the hustle and bustle of daily life. But lately, the politics in Washington, D.C., has crept in and disturbed those quiet moments. You see, the program that has helped to protect habitat and secure access for sportsmen is expiring soon – and Congress hasn’t yet taken action to renew it – threatening my way of life.

For 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has protected local and national parks, working forests, historic landmarks, and wildlife refuges. It has been called one of the country's most important conservation programs, preserving America's cultural and natural heritage...

Sonora Water Wars, Part 1: An intro to the Yaqui Water War

In response to an escalating water crisis, the Mexican border state of Sonora is rushing forward with more water-management projects.

Provincial Matters, 9-22-2014

 V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

A Hope in That Which is Not Seen

Reflections on the People’s Climate March in New Mexico this weekend. 

Who’s Holding the Stake? Participants and Community in the Gila Decision

Action research and social science missing in identifying real stakeholders and impacts.

Provincial Matters, 9-15-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Five Questions with New Mexico Authors – Debra Bloomfield

This week we ask photographer and author Debra Bloomfield some questions about her transcendent, exquisitely beautiful book of photographs, essays, and soundscapes entitled Wilderness published by UNM Press this year.

New Mexico Mercury: What’s so exciting about this book is the total experience it allows a reader to have with its remarkable conversion of visual, audial, and intellectual experience of wilderness. How did you conceive the possibility of achieving such a total experience?...

A day on the river. Mixed.

Early on, it was a sunstruck/river spirit day, paddling in a rhythm that doesn't exist for me anywhere else, ever. Dip, pull, feather, switch. Action in the wrist, shoulder, elbow, moving along propelled by my body, my legs braced forward, nursed by the river's current. Incredible green along the banks, healthy huge cottonwoods, silver-green olive trees hanging dead limbs over the water to catch unwary boatmen and sweep them out of their cockpits while immobilizing the boat.

At first I laughed at the sweepers/strainers every time I hit one, which was often and almost always river right. Now that I think of it, a puzzle; there were almost none on river left, and why was that? I thought of this later...

Provincial Matters, 9-1-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.