Environment

How The Hen House Turns: Animal Partners

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Youngsters get aquainted. Courtesy photo
 
Animal Partners
By Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.
 
The word partner is appropriate, I believe, when applied to the relationship between humans and animals who have agreed to cooperate for whatever they are asked to do.

Asked is the key word here, for animals have been routinely coerced or enslaved by humans over many thousands of years. I’ll look at that in the next article.

A partnership assumes some degree of fulfillment or reward for both parties. Martin Clunes, the delightful animal lover who plays Doc Martin, made a special aired Read More

Planetarium Feature Film Premiere: Mysteries Of The Unseen World March 12, 13, 26, & 27

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Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
There is still time to see the latest nature center full-dome planetarium film, Mysteries of the Unseen World. Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is showing this fascinating film in the planetarium at 2 p.m., March 12, 13, 26, and 27.
 
This planetarium film lets us embark on an adventure to discover unseen worlds and hidden dimensions beyond our view. With the help of technology, we can unravel the mysteries of things too fast, too slow, too small or simply invisible.
 
Mysteries
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Energy Department Announces Denver As Next Location For Solar Decathlon Competition

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Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. won the 2015 DOE Solar Decathlon. Courtesy/DOE

DOE News:

DENVER – At an event today in Denver, Colo., the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Under Secretary for Science and Energy, Dr. Franklin Orr, joined Mayor Michael Hancock to announce Denver as the host city for the next U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition in the fall of 2017.

Dr. Orr revealed that Denver won the bid to host this biennial event, in which student teams compete to design, build, and operate cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive solar-powered Read More

Grand Canyon Adventurer Speaks March 16

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Coming Down South Kaibab Trail one mile below the rim. Photo by Benedict Dugger

LA Mountaineers News:

The Los Alamos Mountaineers will offer an exciting presentation Wednesday, March 16 at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center, by life-long trail explorer and outdoors adventurer Benedict Dugger who resides in Phoenix. Social and reports of recent and upcoming trips are at 7 p.m. The program is at 7:30 p.m.

Dugger was born and raised in the Netherlands, 5,200 miles away from the Grand Canyon, surrounded by green rain-soaked pastures in a country where the highest hill is 300 feet and the Read More

Udall At VA Budget Hearing: Improve Access To Care For Rural Veterans

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U.S. SENATE News:
  • Also presses VA Secretary on restoring trust in VA, continuing burn pit exposure research 
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a hearing Thursday about the fiscal year 2017 budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), U.S. Sen. Tom Udall continued his call for the VA to improve care for veterans living in rural New Mexico and rural communities across the country.  
 
Udall has championed the need to improve access to rural veterans’ health care through expanded use of telehealth technology, increasing transportation
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‘Spectrum’ Show Celebrates Link Between Art And Science

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Grasping Synapses by Todd Siler. Courtesy/CU Art Museum, University of Colorado
 
UNM News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE — DaVinci knew it. Michaelangelo knew it. And the artists and scientists featured in the annual Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience show know it, too: art and science are closely related.
 
This year’s show, ‘Spectrum,’ will feature stunning artwork by artists inspired by nature and dazzling images by scientists studying nature at the smallest scales. “All the pieces are really quite beautiful,” says Bridget Wilson, PhD,
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Luján Discusses Easement Issues With Secretary Jewell

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U.S. Rep. Ren Ray Luján
 
STATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District attended a Natural Resources Committee hearing earlier last week to discuss important easement issues impacting Santa Fe County and San Ildefonso Pueblo. 
 
While Luján is not a member of the committee, he attended the hearing in order to bring up this important matter with Interior Secretary Jewell. Below are his remarks as delivered. Click here to watch his remarks and to access the documents submitted into the committee record
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NM Delegation Urges EPA To Address Compensation Delays For Gold King Mine Spill Victims, Work With State To Monitor Water Quality

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― In a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham expressed concerns with delays in compensation for costs and damages in New Mexico caused by the EPA’s Gold King Mine spill in Colorado six months ago.
 
They urged the EPA to process reimbursement claims submitted by the state and the Navajo Nation and to set up an Office of Gold King
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Interior Department Names Jeff Klein Executive Director Of Natural Resource Investment Center

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DOI News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor announced Monday that the Department has tapped business leader Jeffrey D. Klein to lead the Natural Resource Investment Center (The Center) as its first executive director.
 
Klein is charged with fostering partnerships with the private sector to develop creative financing opportunities that support economic development goals while advancing the Department’s resource stewardship mission. The announcement will be highlighted later today at a meeting at the
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Los Alamos Garden Club Meets March 21

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LAGC News:
 
The Los Alamos Garden Club will meet March 21 at the Crossroads Bible Church on East Road.
 
Refreshments will be served 9:30-10 a.m. Following the 10 a.m. business meeting, Carlos Valdez, director of NM State University Cooperative Extension Office in Los Alamos, will present the program “Garden Pests and Insects”.
Visitors are always welcome to attend.
 
For further information,call President Sally Warner at 505.662.9473.
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