Environment

C’YA Volunteers Clean Up Mile Of State Highway By Airport

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A volunteer holds bags of trash collected from the side of the highway during C’YA clean-up day. Courtesy photo

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
C’YA

Champions of Youth Ambitions (C’YA) has two public areas at which they perform trash cleanup throughout the year. The first is Overlook Park in White Road—part of the Adopt-A-Road program with Los Alamos County.

The second, C’YA’s new acquisition, is a state program called Adopt-A-Highway. C’YA, with the help of volunteer Chandler Lauritzen, officially cleaned the area from mile marker 2 to mile marker 3. This stretch of highway Read More

Daily Postcard: Northern Flicker Finds A Fall Feast

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Daily Postcard: A Northern Flicker eating berries recently at Overlook Park in White Rock. Northern Flickers are large woodpeckers that live year-round in much of the US. In fact, they are among the most commonly seen woodpeckers in northern New Mexico. According to ‘All About Birds’ they generally nest in holes in trees. They mainly eat ants and beetles, for which you can see them digging on the ground. However, they can also be seen eating berries, as this Flicker was doing at Overlook Park. Photo by Richard Skolnik Read More

Posts From The Road: Slug Bug Ranch In Amarillo

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Slug Bug Ranch: The new Slug Bug Ranch in Amarillo has been open for about a year. The new ranch is owned by the Lee family, who also own the legendary Big Texan Steak House in Amarillo. The new ranch is just a few blocks west of the restaurant. This has proved to be a popular move for visitors. The area has become a ‘taggers paradise’. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Ranch in Conway: The original Slug Bug Ranch was located near I-40 in Conway, Texas. about 40 miles east of Amarillo. While the ranch definitely attracted attention, it was never a popular or well-known stop for travelers. The original Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Space History Launch Pad 49 & Counting On Origins Of NMMSH Oct. 3

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New Mexico Museum of Space History Launch Pad Lecture (LPL) 49 and counting is Oct. 3, by Education Director Michael Shinabery. Courtesy/NMDCA

NMDCA News:

ALAMOGORDO — The community is invited to attend the presentation by Education Director Michael Shinabery of the New Mexico Museum of Space History, whose animated style and deep knowledge make history come alive.

Shinabery will discuss the origins of the museum. It all began with Dwight Ohlinger’s dream to create a museum dedicated to space, inspired by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Within three years, that dream became reality with Read More

NM Museum Of Natural History & Science & Smithsonian Researchers Discover Prehistoric Plant Near Socorro

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Rendering of prehistoric plant discovered by NMMNHS and Smithsonian researchers in Socorro County. Courtesy/NMMNHS

NMDCA News:

ALBUQUERQUE — A team of researchers from the Smithsonian and New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) have unearthed a new species of plant that lived before the age of dinosaurs in rural Socorro County.  

This new species, Socorropteris cancellarei, lived roughly 290 million years ago during the Permian Period, and provides vital insight into what the landscape that’s now southern New Mexico may have looked like at that time.

The research, Read More

Veteran-led Volunteers Support Wildfire Mitigation Efforts In Santa Fe County

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Team Rubicon News:

GLORIETA – Volunteers from Team Rubicon, a veteran-led nonprofit humanitarian organization, are in Glorieta to help protect a vital part of the community from the increasing dangers of wildland fire.

The Glorieta Adventure Camp is a critical resource for the children and families of the community. This operation is to help protect the camp, the youth who depend on it, and the Glorieta community at large.

Team Rubicon volunteers, known as Greyshirts, perform disaster mitigation operations year-round to ease the risks of wildfires and floods to vulnerable communities Read More

NNSA/LANL Resume Depressurization Of Waste Containers

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Flanged Tritium Waste Container at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

NNSA/LANL News:

On Saturday, Sept. 20, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will resume the depressurization of small amounts of built-up gas in three waste containers that have been in temporary storage at the lab since 2007. 

A fourth waste container was safely and successfully depressurized earlier this week.

The lab’s webpage on the project details the status of operations, includes answers to common questions, and provides numerous project-related Read More