Valles Caldera Winter Prescribed Burns Likely Tuesday
VCNP News:
JEMEZ SPRINGS – The National Park Service is set to begin winter pile burning operations within the San Antonio Mountain project area of Valles Caldera National Preserve beginning on or shortly after Tuesday, Dec. 2.
If conditions are not favorable to begin burning in San Antonio, the team will switch to burning piles on either South Mountain or Cerro Piñon. The area around the burn activities will be closed to public access until operations are completed.
Fire updates will be posted on the Current Conditions page of the park’s website, the park’s Facebook page, and the New Mexico Read More
And More Scenes From LAHS Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit Class During Visit To Justice Center
Los Alamos Police Cpl. Joey Robinson answers questions from students in Los Alamos High School English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class Nov. 5 at the Justice Center. The students will be writing articles from their interviews. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Counce takes questions from Los Alamos High School students outside her office on Nov. 5 at the Justice Center. The students are in English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Municipal Court staff member Read More
More Scenes From LAHS Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit Class Conducting Interviews At Justice Center
The Honorable Los Alamos County Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Allen speaks with Los Alamos High School Students from English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class in early November as they interview her in her office at the Justice Center. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos High School students from English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class interview the Honorable Los Alamos County Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Allen in her office recently at the Justice Center. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos High School students from English Teacher Read More
Tales Of Our Times: History Recalls The Wisdom In Clean Air Decisions
Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
History Recalls The Wisdom In Clean Air Decisions
A common theme is: “Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” The history of cleaning polluted air gave us hard-won lessons learned that can spare us from repeating them. As ever, what we don’t know or remember will again cost the continuing effort. So, this column looks back at the early years of clean air rules (the 1970s), when rules were first shaped.
Those pioneer struggles for clean air showed us much more than merely the outcomes of lawsuits. To Read More
Op-Ed: Response To Wallace Piece On Nuclear Weapons Testing
By CHICK KELLER
Los Alamos
In response to Terry Wallace’s recent article about previous underground testing of nuclear weapons (link), I’d like to first support his complete opposition to any atmospheric testing. I suspect President Trump isn’t serious, but is merely trying to scare other countries into cessation of any nuclear testing.
I recall the disaster of the Baneberry underground test that broke through and emitted radioactive material to the atmosphere.
I was a junior scientist working on determining how to contain the very first moments of underground tests. Soon after that Read More
