The Pecos has been caught between landowners who say they want to protect their properties and would-be recreationists.

A state district judge issued an order Thursday permanently barring landowners on the Pecos from building fences or posting ...

The Upper Pecos is under “attack,” according to State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard. On Wednesday, just a day after the state House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for long ...

An executive order banning mineral mining on approximately 2,500 acres of state trust land in the Upper Pecos Watershed will ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The feds are proposing protections for a tiny desert-dwelling fish native to the Pecos River basin of New Mexico.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to ...

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 meeting meant to collect ...

acquired 20 mining leases on federal land in the Upper Pecos Watershed in 2019. The area was once home to the Tererro Mine, which left significant mine waste behind, killing off 90,000 fish in 1991.

The Upper Pecos watershed attracts hikers, wildlife enthusiasts, anglers and outdoors people of all kinds — and for good reason, said fly fishing guide Adrian Akin. In addition to participating ...

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 ...