RACC Watershed Alert! November 2017

New Oil and Gas Leasing Slated for Our Watershed A new BLM oil and gas lease sale is coming our way. Parcels on offer in the March 8th, 2018 lease sale are east of Hwy 112 and near the towns of LLaves, Regina and Gallina, and are well within our watershedboundaries....

RACC Newsletter Nov/Dec 2017

Jemez Mt. Electric Co-op Moves in the Right Direction “On August 25, 2017, the Jemez Mountain’s Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees voted to send a letter to Tri-State Generation & Transmission asking to discuss the possibility of increasing the use of...

Watershed Alert September 2017

The following is a report regarding the use of Roundup weed killer by the DOT on roadsides near the community of Dixon. Spraying also occurred in our watershed near Abiquiu. If you would like to submit a comment of concern to the DOT, please use the link for Paul...

August/Sept 2017 Newsletter

El Rito Watershed Events Generate Energy! The El Rito Library and Purdue University kicked off Watershed Week in El Rito on July 8thby hosting the El Rito Watershed Study: A Community Forum, a mind-blowing event about a study whose subject is our very own El Rito...

June/July 2017 Newsletter

Exploring San Pedro Parks Wilderness and Rio Gallina Canyon by RACC board member Barbara Turner Both of these amazing places are very near the existing oil and gas leases on the border of the Rio Chama Watershed (no permits to drill have been issued so far). I can...

April/May 2017 Newsletter

Comment Letters Mailed to BLM Many thanks to all who attended the comment letter-writing event in February regarding oil and gas parcel leasing near the Continental Divide in our watershed! We mailed to the BLM, by certified mail, over 28 comment letters, all composed...

Feb/March 2017 Newsletter

Many thanks to Carolyn Riege and Norbert Hufnagl, partnersin Earthen Touch Natural Builders, for planning and hosting this important watershed event. Please stop by and join us in speaking up for the Rio Chama Watershed! Governor Martinez Appoints Oil Company VP...

Watershed Alert Feb 2017

Rio Chama Watershed Alert!!! THIS IS AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD REGARDING OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN OUR WATERSHED!!! WITH A WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (WELC) LAWSUIT SUPPORTING US, THIS IS A BATTLE WE CAN WIN. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO...

RACC supports Santa Fe National Forest lawsuit against BLM

RACC is supporting this Western Environmental Law (WELC) suit filed November 18, 2016 against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Interior as well as the U.S. Forest Service (NFS) under the Department of Agriculture, for...

BLM: Stop auctioning off Chaco to oil and gas

Author: Mona Blaber ​ Fracking in Greater Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico is on the increase and causing more health and public safety problems than ever. Please write to the Bureau of Land Management Farmington Office to protect these sacred and precious...