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The Land Witness Project: Climate Stories from New Mexico was created by a collective of people with deep emotional and physical ties to New Mexico. We are all concerned about New Mexico’s changing climate and its effects on our communities and ecosystems. We embarked on this journey to amplify the voices of the people and communities on the front lines of climate change. The project was designed
10/31/2025
Sagebrush Church is poisoning wildlife.. this poison must be removed immediately. ‼️‼️‼️
Most cases of rodenticide poisoning in wildlife don’t happen because an animal directly consumes the poison; it occurs secondarily when raptors or other predators consume a poisoned rodent.
When a mouse or rat consumes rodenticides, they generally do not die right away.
Many of them make their way out into the environment before succumbing to the poison. These poisoned rodents are weaker and less coordinated than their healthy counterparts, making them easy prey and more likely to pass the poison throughout the food web.
Once a predator consumes a poisoned rodent, the rodenticides bioaccumulate, or build up, in their bodies and inhibit their blood’s ability to clot, causing them to suffer a slow and painful death.
08/21/2025
03/11/2025
A new national forecast warns that above-normal wildfire risk will exist through most of New Mexico by April. Meanwhile, federal cuts could leave one-third of the state without dispatchers to monitor for nascent blazes and fewer firefighters to respond if they blow up.
Snowpack this year was far below average. Most of the state is in severe drought. Fine fuels, like grass and pine needles, are abundant following two years of moderate precipitation. Meanwhile, the United States Department of Agriculture slashed 3,400 employees, 75% of whom had wildfire-fighting training, according to recent Congressional testimony.
Also, two wildfire dispatch centers, including one covering the fire-prone Gila National Forest, are slated to close, thanks to the Department of Government Efficiency’s announced lease terminations.
Combine all of that and, “It’s bad, man,” said Matt Hurteau, a fire ecologist at the University of New Mexico.
“It’s just going to be a matter of the intersection of an ignition and a wind event and high temperatures, and we’re off and running,” he said.
As reported in by Patrick Lohmann
03/08/2025
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