Environment

SFNF: Black Canyon Campground Is Closed For Season; Refunds Issued

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 4, 2018
SFNF News:
 
SANTA FE ― Due to necessary maintenance, the Black Canyon Campground on the Espanola Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest is closed for the season, which ends Oct. 9.
 
All refunds were issued per a Recreation.Gov representative; however customers who have yet to receive reimbursement, such as on bank card statements, may call the Recreation.Gov help desk line at 877.345.6777. Customers may not be able to find reimbursement information at www.recreation.gov due to an online data migration. The online data migration is not expected to be completed
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Amateur Naturalist: Sticky Gumweed

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 4, 2018
A mature flower with its many florets next to a bract covered with milky sap. Photo by Robert Dryja
 
Amateur Naturalist
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
 
Plants can have a very mixed relationship with the insects that help pollinate them. On the one hand insects carry pollen from flower to flower while sipping nectar from flowers. This helps assure that more seeds then will develop. On the other hand, insects eat developing flowers and birds eat the resulting seeds.
 
How can a plant obtain the benefits but avoid the costs?
 
Different species of plants have different strategies
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Velechovsky Top Predictor In Final Pace Race Of Season

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 4, 2018
Scene from the Atomic City Road Runners final Pace Race of the 2018 season Tuesday on the Canyon Rim Trail. Courtesy photo
 
ACRR News:
 
Jan Velechovsky had a perfect prediction of 10:00 in the 1 mile run on the Canyon Rim Trail Tuesday in the final Atomic City Road Runners Pace Race of the 2018 season.  
 
Other accurate predictors were: Becky Chamberlin with a 6 second difference as well as the first finisher in the 2 mile distance with a 20:56, Bob Weeks recording a 6 second delta as well, Luke Hetrick at 12 seconds off and the top finisher in the 3 mile race recording a 17:12, Heidi
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BLM Announces Annual Adjustment To Mineral Fee Cost-Recovery Schedule

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 3, 2018
BLM News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The Bureau of Land Management began Oct. 1 using an updated fee schedule to recover costs incurred in processing certain actions related to oil, gas, coal, and solid minerals activities on public land.
 
The fee schedule is adjusted regularly based on inflation and follows procedures established under the 2005 Cost Recovery Rule. The updated schedule appears in today’s Federal Register and will be posted to the BLM website.
 
The fees cover the BLM’s costs for processing such actions as lease applications, name changes, corporate mergers, lease
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Unique Birding Trip To Los Luceros Historic Site Oct. 6

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 1, 2018

Local birder Joe Fitzgibbon is leading a birding trip Saturday to Los Luceros Historic Site, which is rarely open for birding. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The community is invited to join PEEC and local birder Joe Fitzgibbon on a special birding outing Saturday, Oct. 6 at Los Luceros Historic Site.

Participants will spend the morning at the property, which features massive old-growth cottonwoods and fantastic Rio Grande habitat but is rarely open for birding. Space is limited to 12 participants and registration is required.

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Scenes From Farmers Market Thursday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 1, 2018

Scene from Thursday’s Farmers Market. The Los Alamos Farmers Market is open 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursdays through the end of October in the parking lot of Mesa Public Library at 2400 Central Ave. For more information about the Los Alamos Farmers Market, contact Cindy at talacook@windstream.net Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com

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Daily Postcard: Fall Foliage On Jemez Mountain Trail

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 1, 2018

Daily Postcard: Fall foliage along the Jemez Mountain Trail, which circles Fenton Lake State Park between Bernalillo, Cuba and Los Alamos. It starts at the Coronado Monument in Bernallilo and encompasses the Jemez State Monument, Valles Caldera Preserve and finishes at Bandelier National Monument. It is filled with many opportunities for hiking, fishing, camping, cross-country skiing and visiting a natural hot springs. Courtesy photo Read More

NMDOT On ‘NM Bike Plan’ 45-Day Comment Period

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 30, 2018
NMDOT News:
 
SANTA FE ― The New Mexico Department of Transportation has released the draft of the Prioritized Statewide Bicycle Network Plan (NM Bike Plan) for public review and comment.
 
This 45-day public comment period runs through Nov. 9. The Draft of the Plan is available on the project website: https:////www.bhinc.com/nm-bike-plan/.
 
The NM Bike Plan considers how best to provide New Mexico residents and visitors with a safe and connected bicycle network on state maintained and owned roads and highways. Major plan components include:
  • A map of prioritized
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DOE Awards Renewal Of Grant Agreement To New Mexico Environment Department (NMED)

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 30, 2018
DOE News:
 
CINCINNATI, Ohio ― The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) Thursday issued a grant renewal to the New Mexico Environment Department.
 
The Agreement, entitled “Environmental oversight and monitoring at the DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM)” was renewed for a five-year project period, with annual budget periods beginning Oct. 1, 2018.
 
This grant agreement is intended to:
  • provide a mechanism through which the NMED can provide independent,
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PEEC: Celebrate Of Fiber In New Mexico Oct. 2

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 30, 2018
Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Celebrate the Season of Arts & Culture by learning about the rich history of fiber in New Mexico at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the Los Alamos Nature Center.
 
April Jouse, Director of Programs at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center (EVFAC), will give this free presentation.
 
The history of fiber in New Mexico spans thousands of years, beginning with Pueblo people’s use of natural fibers, including cotton, to make clothing. It greatly expanded with the arrival of the Spanish, who brought Churro sheep and treadle looms. At this talk, audience
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Jemez Ranger District Tent Rocks Prescribed Burn

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 30, 2018
SFNF News:
 
SANTA FE ― Fire managers on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) plan to implement a prescribed burn, if conditions allow, between Oct. 15 and Nov. 30 in the Tent Rocks area.
 
The treatment area is approximately 3.5 miles north of Jemez Springs, NM and less than 1 mile southwest of La Cueva, NM. The Tent Rocks prescribed burn is to reduce risk of high-severity wildfire.
 
Favorable conditions measured include fuel moisture levels, air quality, winds and weather forecasts. Up to 1,310 acres of hazardous fuels may be treated per day and for up
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Girl Scouts Participate In STEM Activities At Bandelier

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 30, 2018

Local Girl Scouts had a great time over camping over the weekend Sept. 7-9 at the Ponderosa Campground at Bandelier. The Girl Scouts participated in activities and events that included science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), outdoors, ar, and entrepreneurship. Girls interested in learning more about becoming a Girl Scouts should contact Terri at troop10074@gmail.com or leave a message at 505.930.4199. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

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New Mexico Environment Department Awards APS Grant Funding For Early Replacement Of Five Buses

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 29, 2018
NMED News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― The Albuquerque Public School District has been awarded $380,626.00 in grant funding from the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA).
 
The grant provides partial funding for the early replacement of five older, more polluting diesel-fueled school buses with five new gasoline-fueled school buses that meet the current EPA emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles.
 
“These new school buses for the Albuquerque Public Schools will help
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Jemez Ranger District To Begin Joaquin Piles Burn

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 29, 2018
SFNF News:
 
SANTA FE ― To take advantage of favorable conditions, to include fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, fire managers on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) expect to begin ignitions sometime between Oct. 15 and Feb. 28, 2019 on Joaquin piles to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire.
 
Weather permitting, crews are expected to treat up to 347 acres of the Joaquin piles.
 
The Joaquin piles area is located along the southern edge of Forest Road (FR) 534 and west of FR 376 about six miles west of Jemez Springs. Smoke
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Daily Postcard: Sunrise Through Trees At Valles Caldera

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 29, 2018

Daily Postcard: Sunrise through the trees, Valles Caldera National Preserve. The Valles Caldera is in the center and at the top of the Jemez Mountains. The 88,900-acre preserve encompasses almost all of the volcanic caldera created by a spectacular volcanic eruption about 1.25 million years ago. The caldera is dormant, but not extinct, and still displays signs of volcanic life with hot springs and boiling sulphuric acid fumaroles. Source: VCNP. Courtesy/VCNP Read More

LANL, PVSD And Highlands University Collaborate On Innovative Teacher Education Program

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on September 28, 2018

LANL Director Terry C. Wallace, Jr., Pojoaque Valley School District Board of Education President of the Jon Paul Romero and New Mexico Highlands University Sam Minner. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pojoaque Valley School District and New Mexico Highlands University officially launched the region’s first professional development school at a Sept. 26 PVSD board meeting.

“The value of education and the critical role it plays in the future success of both Northern New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory cannot be overstated,” LANL Director Terry C. Wallace,

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