Effort Advances to Protect New Mexico’s Pecos River Watershed
From Trout Unlimited:
Santa Fe, NM – The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that approximately 166,000 acres of public land in the headwaters of New Mexico’s Pecos River will be withdrawn from all forms of mineral entry, appropriation, and disposal for the next twenty years.
Protecting the headwaters of the Pecos River has been a priority of local governments, water users, watershed groups, and the fishing community since learning of new mineral speculation by an Australian mining company in 2019. The upper Pecos Watershed is…
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