Ski Apache is a popular destination for skiers in Southern New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. The ski area is located on the Lincoln National Forest and operated by the Mescalero Apache Tribe under a special use permit. The Tribe and the Lincoln National Forest will continue to work collaboratively to restore the ski area landscape including tree planting, addressing a spruce beetle outbreak, and aspen restoration work. [Village of Ruidoso]Last year a Texas group calling itself American Stewards of Liberty with ties to the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion presented anti-Earth resolutions to a receptive Otero County Commission and the San Juan County Commission heard two resolutions dealing with land use issues after watching ASL's Margaret Byfield's dog and pony show.
Southeastern New Mexico is home to many descendants of the Confederacy and are resisting the Lincoln National Forest's plan revision. On Monday county commissioners from Chaves, Eddy, Lincoln and Otero counties heard an update to the 1986 forest management plan, a revision that began in 2015. Byfield was also there.
Mandated by federal law, the updated plan will determine how the Forest Service manages the 1.1 million acres that spread over portions of Chaves, Eddy, Lincoln and Otero counties. The forest is divided into three ranger districts, the Guadalupe District around the Carlsbad area, the Smokey Bear District around the Ruidoso area and the Sacramento District. A small part of the eastern section of the Sacramento Range District is in Chaves County. Alternative A would leave the plan as it is now, which includes having no wilderness areas designations. Alternatives C, D and E reflect public feedback and would add wilderness areas from as small as 21,000 acres to as much as 402,000 acres. Alternative B is the Forest Service plan and originally recommended adding about 40,500 acres as wilderness. [Roswell Daily Record]In March the Jemez Pueblo was granted title to a portion of the Valles Caldera National Preserve after the Court of Appeals issued a split ruling creating a precedent for other tribes seeking to regain rights to their traditional homelands.
The Sacramento Mountains and the surrounding area were historically inhabited by the Mescalero and other groups of Apache prior to colonization. The Mescalero Apache lived a nomadic hunting and gathering existence. Their name for themselves is ‘Shis-Inday’ meaning “People of the Mountain Forest. [Lincoln National Forest]Byfield is lobbying the Yankton, South Dakota County Commission appearing for a second time in the mostly Democratic district near the Yankton Sioux Nation.
Lawyers representing the Pueblo of San Felipe are suing the Department of Interior over a federal land patent from 1864 after the Trump Organization's Bureau of Land Management illegally took nearly 700 acres in 2017.
Conserving land, especially on private land which made up almost half, or 34 million acres, of New Mexico’s total area of about 78 million acres, per a data reported to committee from the University of New Mexico, often takes the form of conservation easements purchased by landowners. [Land grab or environmental justice? New Mexico moves forward with 30X30 conservation plan]President Joe Biden should immediately create a new national monument from the Lincoln National Forest and remand management to the Mescalero Apache.
Did you know that you can still visit the place where the living symbol of Smokey was rescued way back in 1950? 🏞️ Lincoln National Forest covers over 1.1 million acres of land in South New Mexico (including the "Smokey Bear" ranger district, named after yours truly! 🐻) pic.twitter.com/0EpQHdJz7T
— Smokey Bear (@smokey_bear) May 29, 2022
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Agreement between New Mexico Mescalero Tribe, forest officials could aid land management
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