What do you see when you are driving through the desert landscape along New Mexico's highways? If there are long stretches that seem uninhabited, isolated from or devoid of human presence, do you note that? Or, do you see the other presences: the coyotes, the hares, the chamisa, and the sage, to name a few? Do you see the history of the land or sense its enduring legacies? The question photographer Michael P. Berman has for us is, how do we see what's there? It is a question for which he has a very basic answer: in order to see what's there, you have to go and look. As a photographer and as someone concerned about the ecological importance of grasslands, going out to look is what Berman does. His focus has been on the grasslands of the Chihuahuan desert. Although most of the desert is l...
...McKinney. Flat is characterized as Chihuahuan desert grassland (Traphagen 2009, p. 2). Shrub inv...
Each time I step into a garden, I take a trip around the world. This trip is taken as the result of learning about the habitat of each plant I encounter. Once I connect a particular plant to its place of origin, I develop a yearning to visit that place and, suddenly, I am there. Take the Chihuahuan sages, for example. Blue flowered sages such as Salvia chamaedryoides, Salvia reptans, and Saliva villosa are all native to the hills of west Texas and northern Mexico, which lie within the Chihuahuan Desert. The popular fuzzy and lavender flowered Mexican sage (Salvia leucantha), as well as the red, salmon or pink, silky flowered autumn sage (Salvia greggii) is also native to this area.
After watching oil companies drill her San Juan County, N.M., grazing allotments into uselessness, in 2002 [Blancett] staged a lockout near Farmington to keep oil company trucks from crossing private property to reach public lands (HCN, 12/9/02). Now, she's campaigning to keep coalbed methane drillers out of New Mexico's Valle Vidal unit of the Carson National Forest (HCN, 3/1/04). But this particular rally was about protecting southern New Mexico's Otero Mesa, the country's last remaining tract of Chihuahuan Desert grassland (HCN, 9/10/01). After Blancett took her seat, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, D, stepped to the stage in a surprise appearance. The former secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy signed an executive order onstage, making it state policy to prevent oil and gas c...
... publicly-owned expanse of undisturbed Chihuahuan Desert grassland in the United States. From 1998 t...
Graffiti, at its most basic, is a mark or inscription made on a wall. Here in the Southwest, people have been making such marks for thousands of years. One can see ancient graffiti in some of the petroglyphs left behind by the Jornada Mogollon people in the northern Chihuahuan desert, for example. Yet after all this time, one of our oldest art forms still has not received the credit or status afforded to other arts. To be fair, some of the marginalizing of graffiti art is justified: sometimes it defaces public and private property and is not necessarily done in the service of a greater good. It is not always art for art's sake.
The brutal slaughter of hundreds of women, mostly young, living far from home, many working in the maquiladoras along the U.S- Mexican border near Cuidad Juarez, is slowly -- finally -- entering the American consciousness as the purposeful "femicide" that it is. While we may be familiar with similar atrocities in the Sudan, Pakistan, and other environments that breed sexual violence against women, this 14-year saga of sorrow in the Chihuahuan Desert is unfolding within a morning's drive of our city. History is rife with stories of people who lived near scenes of murder or torture, yet claimed they saw or heard nothing, and about others who knew, but never spoke up to stop it.
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Monica Echeverria of World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778- 9626; Jennifer Montoya of Chihuahuan Desert Program, Las Cruces, NM, +1-505-526-1320; Lisa Hadeed, Communications Manager, Global Freshwater Programme, t +41 22 364 9030, m +41 79 372 1346, lhadeed@wwfint.org; or Brian Thomson, Press Officer, WWF International, t +41 22 364 9554, m +41 79 477 3553, bthomson@wwfint.org
Otero Mesa --1.2 million acres of grasslands in the Chihuahuan Desert of Southern New Mexico -- has been the center of controversy for years: Environmentalists, ranchers, biologists and New Mexico's governor want the mesa preserved. Oil and gas developers want to extract its underground hydrocarbon resources. A new book, Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grassland (University of New Mexico Press), explores the reasons the land is worth protecting. Written by Tucson, Ariz., author Gregory McNamee, with photos by astronomer Stephen Strom and wilderness advocate Stephen Capra, the book traces the mesa's history and the fight over its future. "As with all strange and empty places in this increasingly crowded, increasingly monocultural world, Otero Mesa is an important island in our g...
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