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Posted inEnvironment & Conservation

As warming strains NM’s water supplies, ‘status quo’ no longer works

by Laura Paskus September 25, 2018

On the downstream side of Elephant Butte Dam, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation employees navigate a stairwell above the Rio Grande, passing scat from the ring-tailed cats that like to hang out here, and enter through a door into the 300-foot tall concrete dam. Built in the early twentieth century, Elephant Butte Dam holds back water […]

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Posted inEnvironment & Conservation

A dry Rio Grande in springtime isn’t normal. But it will be.

by Laura Paskus May 7, 2018

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