Our View Public-Land Limits? Feds, Tread Carefully
The Santa Fe New Mexican › August 02, 2010
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The wide-open spaces of our state aren't what they once were: A growing urban-suburban population pours out of our cities nearly every weekend to get in touch with Nature. Most of them do it in genteel fashion -- but then there are the blockheads who treat ownership of monster-tired trucks and increasingly powerful all- terrain vehicles as license to let 'em rip.
The extent of their damage to public lands is debatable -- but it's plenty noticeable the closer that land is to town. Glorieta Mesa, near Pecos, has taken a terrific beating; so have several stretches of the Jemez Mountains, easily accessible to Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Albuquerque.See the full content of this document
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Our View Public-Land Limits? Feds, Tread Carefully
It isn't just the makeshift roads they carve across the grasslands, sage and chamisa; it's the headwater erosion they leave in their wake that's got state Environme...
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