MRGCD supports the State’s efforts to better understand and address human-driven water depletions in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. This includes the State’s pending metering order and a future evaluation of the cumulative effects of domestic wells. These are important steps toward improved water management and accountability. However, the bosque remains the largest source of …
Accumlating odds and ends, cluttering my brain but lacking the oomph for a full blog post: Rio Bravo Bridge With work getting underway on the replacement of the Rio Bravo Bridge over the Rio Grande in greater Albuquerque’s South Valley, a bit of spelunking in one of the Internet’s unlit subterranean passages yielded this bit …
The Rio Puerco (the eastern one, there’s two, this is the one that flows into the Rio Grande south of Belen, New Mexico) took its turn yesterday, with historic flows from the tropical storm remnants that have been drenching the Four Corners states. I have no idea who Jon Finley is, but we’re forever in …
I was crammed into the back seat of a Subaru wagon Friday, bouncing down the tail end of the last dirt road along New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande when the big marsh buggies emerged in the distance, blocking up the road’s end. In the lexicon of the river’s “maintainers,” we were somewhere around “River Mile …
Deepening and widening of stream channels in the Southwest is a phenomenon that has taken place within the memory of men now living. It began at different dates from 1860 on and has progressed at different rates on several streams, as summarized in a recent paper.²? The flood plains of numerous minor streams are yet …
NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF THE RIO PUERCO AND THE RIO GRANDE – The broad delta where the Rio Puerco meets the Rio Grande in central New Mexico has never been a great place to live, though people try. To the east, across the river, the Ancestral Puebloan Piro built the village Spanish colonizers named “Sevilleta” …
If you have ever been to modern San Marcial, New Mexico – or what is left of it – the notion of an 86-pound catfish requires some explanation. The spot where D.C. George hooked his record catfish is today ragged scrubland. But for a brief, shining, extremely odd period of time in the 1940s and …
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