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New Mexico Wilderness Act of 1980, Public Law 96-550, is a U.S. federal law that authorized the establishment of a number of designated Wilderness Areas on National Forest land in New Mexico. The law also added additional lands to four existing Wilderness Areas in New Mexico, and named several Forest areas for study as potential Wilderness Areas.
The findings at Lake Holloman validate action the state took when it filed a complaint against the Defense Department in 2019 for violating the New Mexico Hazardous Waste Act, Maez wrote.
This act was processed under the Bush Administration in attempts to complete the construction of the United States–Mexico barrier. [12] The fencing built under the 2006 act caused habitat fragmentation that affected wildlife, including endangered animals.
Website. www.wildlife.dgf.nm.gov. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF) is a state-level government department within the New Mexico Governor's Cabinet that is responsible for maintaining wildlife and fish in the state. The NMDGF undertakes protection, conservation and propagation, and regulates the use of game and fish to ensure ...
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, except three parcels of private Navajo land within its ...
People in New Mexico at risk from devastating wildfires this week are now facing “extremely dangerous” flooding.. At least two people died in the South Fork and Salt Fires which have destroyed ...
Apr. 19—New Mexico Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced Thursday that Bureau of Land Management lands near Placitas will be ineligible for mineral extraction for the next 50 years.
Sandia Mountain Wilderness, part of Cibola National Forest, is located east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and comprises much of Sandia Mountains. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1978 by an act of the United States Congress and has a total of 37,877 acres (15,328 ha). [2] [1]