Playing with tools I don’t understand very well
Purple really brings out the fractal in this tree:
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The shortcomings of the Endangered Species Act in western water
Reed Benson: [I]n places where there is no river-dependent species listed as threatened or endangered, environmental factors often carry little weight in water management. Without a listed species, water allocation and management often ignore the health of the river. And even where listed species do exist, focusing on the needs of a single species (as …
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Water in the desert: quiet of winter
Stuff I wrote elsewhere: Albuquerque a victim of water conservation success
When you sell less water, you make less money selling water. It’s the modern water agency dilemma: Albuquerque’s municipal water agency may need another rate increase to dig out of a growing financial hole left by the community’s water conservation success, agency officials acknowledged in a report this week to their board.
I pity the poor fool who isn’t having a happy holiday
Stuff I wrote elsewhere: New Mexico water planning
I wrote a story in this morning’s newspaper about New Mexico’s efforts to revive its moribund state water planning process: Ten years after New Mexico officials last took a stab at developing a state water plan, they are reviving their effort to calculate the gaps between New Mexico’s finite water supplies and the needs of …
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Truckload sale
I did not realize the Ancestral Puebloans were known for their leather furniture. New Mexico is a wondrous place.
Here’s a new western water blog worth adding to your RSS feed
Reed Benson, a University of New Mexico law professor whose patient explanations and deep writing have been extraordinarily helpful to my understand of things like the doctrine of prior appropriation and the Endangered Species Act, has joined the blogoworld: It has come to my attention … that a lot of people do not read law …
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Dude looks content
We’re apparently now supposed to call it “street art”.
“Developed Land”
This open land on Albuquerque’s west side, a 20 mile drive from downtown but probably half of that as the crow flies, is getting a newly improved four-lane road and drainage. It’s currently home to a cluster of shooting ranges, the place where we turn our post-sewage plant poop into compost, and a small airport. …