Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Secretary Salazar Dedicates Two National Wildlife Refuges in New Mexico
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today dedicated the Valle de Oro
National Wildlife Refuge in Albuquerque, making it the first urban
refuge in the Southwest and one of a handful across the nation. Salazar
was joined by Senator Jeff Bingaman, Representative Martin Heinrich,
Bernalillo County Commissioner Art De La Cruz, and other local
stakeholders and partners, including the Trust for Public Land. Later today, Salazar will travel to Wind River Ranch near Mora, N.M.
for a signing ceremony establishing the Rio Mora National Wildlife
Refuge and Conservation Area on over 4,200 acres donated by the Thaw
Charitable Trust. “Today we celebrate two new jewels in the National Wildlife Refuge
System -- Valle de Oro, an urban oasis for people and wildlife just five
miles from downtown Albuquerque, and Rio Mora, which will serve as an
anchor for cooperative conservation efforts in the Rio Mora watershed,”
Salazar said. “Both refuges exemplify the goals of President Obama’s
America’s Great Outdoors initiative to establish a 21st century
conservation ethic built on partnerships and to fuel economic growth in
local communities.”...more
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