A state district judge issued an order Thursday permanently barring landowners on the Pecos from building fences or posting ...
The Pecos has been caught between landowners who say they want to protect their properties and would-be recreationists.
The action removes 2,500 acres from mining development but leaves much of the largely federally owned watershed unprotected.
Mar. 3—PECOS — Advocates are worried about a federal proposal to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining for the next 20 years after the Bureau of Land Management postponed a public ...
The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...
when contamination from a closed mine leeched into the Pecos River, killing fish several miles from the spill, tainting water supplies and costing millions of dollars to clean up. Ralph Vigil ...