Environment

BLM And Forest Service Announce 2017 Grazing Fee

Submitted by Chris Clark on February 2, 2017
BLM News:
 
The Federal grazing fee for 2017 will be $1.87 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.87 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2016 public land grazing fee was $2.11.
 
An AUM or HM – treated as equivalent measures for fee purposes – is the use of public lands by one cow and her calf, one horse, or five sheep or goats for a month. The newly calculated grazing fee, determined by a congressional formula and effective on March 1, applies to nearly 18,000 grazing permits and
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Houston Deploys Jemez Analytics to Ensure Public Safety at Super Bowl LIVE

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on February 2, 2017

SECURITY BUSINESS News:

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Jemez Technology’s Eagle-i Edge® advanced video analytics solution for real-time threat detection and tracking has been deployed as an integral part of the security technology selected by The City of Houston Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security to protect the more than one million fans expected to experience the 10-day Super Bowl LIVE event at the city’s 12-acre Discovery Green Park.

Jemez Technology was founded by former scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, bringing decades of national security experience to its products Read More

Heinrich Supports Confirmation Of Ryan Zinke For Interior Secretary, Highlights Success Of National Monuments In New Mexico

Submitted by Chris Clark on February 2, 2017
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, right, meets Jan. 10 with Interior Secretary Nominee Ryan Zinke. Courtesy photo
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ―  U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted Jan. 31 in support of Secretary of the Interior nominee U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources business meeting.
 
“While we are clearly not going to agree on every issue, I believe its very important to have a Westerner in this role — particularly one who is committed to keeping public lands in public hands,” Heinrich
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Youth Beginning Photography Class For 1st-3rd Graders At Los Alamos Nature Center

Submitted by Chris Clark on February 2, 2017
Acorn Woodpeckers frequently visit the Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Mrs. Magelssen
 
PEEC News:
 
Retired school teacher Mrs. Magelssen will teach a beginning photography class for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Los Alamos Nature Center.
 
This beginning photography class will encourage children to discover the basics of composing good photographs through hands-on experience. Camera equipment will be provided. Students will identify pictures that are pleasing to the eye, take
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Enjoy The Outdoors This Winter At Bandelier

Submitted by Chris Clark on February 2, 2017
View from the end of the Upper Frijoles Canyon Overlook Trail, January 2017. Courtesy/NPS
 

Trailhead area for Upper Frijoles Canyon Overlook Trail and Sawyer Mesa Trail, along State Route 4 near the junction with Forest Road 289. Courtesy/NPS

 

BANDELIER News:
 
This is an ideal time for enjoying winter in and around Bandelier National Monument, with snow at higher elevations and lots of sunny days.
 
Anyone comfortable in winter conditions can readily find a number of opportunities available in the park. The Visitor Center and Main Loop Trail in Frijoles Canyon
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Benson: Unlike Phil, Gus Is A Rodent’s Rodent

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on February 2, 2017
By JODY BENSON, Chair
Pajarito Group of the Sierra Club

Thursday, Feb 2, demarcates the point in the calendar halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. In simpler times, (prior to anthropogenic green-house gases causing climate change with the resulting unpredictability of atmospheric conditions) on this day—Groundhog Day—it would be up to the groundhog to partner with his shadow to determine the weather for the next six weeks.

Here in New Mexico, as many of you already know, we do not have groundhogs. Rather we have gophers. Los Alamos’s own rodent celebrity, the glow-in-the-dark Read More

Story Of Texas (And Now New Mexico) Punxatawney Phil

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on February 2, 2017
Since his arrival in Los Alamos in October, Punxatawney Phil has been spotted all over town. Here he checks out the view on Central Avenue with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Courtesy photo
 
Punxatawney Phil sees his shadow this morning so he’s predicting another six weeks of winter. Courtesy photo
 
By JULIE HABIGER
Los Alamos
 
My father Lawrence Strouts spends his winters in a retirement community in south Texas, and the idea of celebrating Groundhog Day with residents there came about many, many years ago. Groundhog Day isn’t exactly one of those holidays like Valentines’
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House Committee To Review ‘Bear Bill’ Thursday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 31, 2017

Karen Williams of Los Aamos

STATE News:

House Bill 109, WILD ANIMAL BITE & ATTACK PROCEDURES, is on the agenda for review Thursday by the House State Government, Indian and Veterans’ Affairs Committee. This is the bill created by runner Karen Williams of Los Aamos who was attacked by a mother bear protecting her cubs when Williams came too close while running a marathon near the Valles Cadera.

The mama bear was subsequently located and killed so the brain could be tested for rabies. Her 10-pound cubs were eventually rescued from high up in a tree and taken to Cottonwood Rehabilatation Read More

County Spring & Summer Field User Meeting Feb. 15

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 30, 2017
COUNTY News:
 
The Spring & Summer Field User meeting is 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the Parks Division Conference Room, 101 Camino Entrada Bldg. 5.
 
Attendees should bring all schedule requests and a copy of the organization’s Liability of Insurance naming Los Alamos County as additional insured, to the meeting. Mandatory attendance is required. Anyone unable to attend should designate someone to attend in their place.
 
Direct questions to Kim Trujillo at 505.662.8159. Forms can be obtained on the County website at www.lacnm.us
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First GPS Data Release To Boost Space-weather Science

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 30, 2017

An image illustrating the six orbital planes in which GPS satellites (‘navigational satellites’ or ns) fly around Earth. This configuration shows the orbits just before the start of this solar cycle’s biggest geomagnetic storm, which occurred March 17, 2015. The darkest orbital lines indicate the position of the satellites in that moment; the lightest lines indicate where they were 12 hours prior. Courtesy/LANL

 

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DOE Releases Draft RFP For Moab UMTRA Technical Assistance Contract (TAC) Procurement

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 29, 2017
DOE News:
 
CINCINNATI, Ohio ― The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Technical Assistance Contract (TAC), in Moab, Utah.
 
An Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract, utilizing Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) and Time-and-Material task orders, is anticipated.
 
The Final RFP is established as a total U.S. Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program set-aside with
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Skier Alex Mueller Shares Adventures In Antarctica

Submitted by Kirsten Laskey (ladp admin) on January 26, 2017

One of Alex Mueller’s shots of the landscape in Antarctica. Mueller shared a number of his photos during Los Alamos Mountaineers’ meeting Tuesday night at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Alex Mueller 

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
 

Alex Mueller was in a meeting at Lawrence Livermore when he got a call; a friend asked if he would like to take the ski trip of a lifetime. So in November 2014, Mueller packed his bags, picked up his skis, flew on a plane to Argentina before boarding an ex-Russian ice breaker vessel to Antarctica.  

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Ranking Member Raúl Grijalva Visits Los Alamos Jan. 27

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 26, 2017

Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva

POLITICAL News:

  • Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva Speaks Friday at Fuller Lodge

Washington, D.C. – As House Republicans vow to eliminate federal protection for multiple national monuments across the West, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) will head to New Mexico Jan. 25-27 to tour several federally protected sites, meet with key lawmakers, and connect with conservation, sportsmen and business leaders to form a united front in what is expected to be a frontline state in the fight over the future of our public lands.

The trip, Grijalva said, is about preserving Read More

Extreme Space Weather-Induced Electricity Blackouts Could Cost U.S. More Than $40 Billion Daily

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 26, 2017
AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The daily U.S. economic cost from solar storm-induced electricity blackouts could be in the tens of billions of dollars, with more than half the loss from indirect costs outside the blackout zone, according to a new study.
 
Previous studies have focused on direct economic costs within the blackout zone, failing to take into account indirect domestic and international supply chain loss from extreme space weather.
 
“On average the direct economic cost incurred from disruption to electricity represents only 49 percent of the total potential
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Obama Environmental Legacy Will Benefit People And Places Of New Mexico For Years To Come

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 26, 2017
ENVIRONMENT News:
 
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children,” this proverb may well have guided President Obama over the past eight years as he protected our landscapes and led the world to limit the worst impacts of global warming.
 
From the Climate Action Plan to investing in renewable energy and fuel economy standards and forging the historic Paris Climate Agreement, President Obama’s unprecedented leadership on cutting global warming emissions will ensure a brighter future for our planet and all of us who call it home.
 
With 2016 in
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