{"id":38524,"date":"2012-04-01T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=38524"},"modified":"2012-04-01T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:33:27","slug":"coalition-to-protect-land-in-dona-ana-county-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/coalition-to-protect-land-in-dona-ana-county-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition to protect land in Do\u00f1a Ana County grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37369\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-37369 \" title=\"organ-mountains-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/organ-mountains-4.jpeg\" alt=\"The Organ Mountains (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"270\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Organ Mountains (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A movement to protect the Organ Mountains and other areas in Do\u00f1a Ana County by designating the land as a national monument is growing.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_20299413\/support-grows-proposed-organ-mountains-desert-peaks-national\" target=\"_blank\">the Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn recent weeks, support for an initiative to designate those open, pristine lands as the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument has grown. A coalition now in excess of 175 entities representing a noticeable cross section of residents has steadily picked up steam; more support and more activities to show they are sincere about pushing President Obama and other federal leaders to make the designation official.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNew Mexico&#8217;s congressional delegation, including Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats, and Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., have put their support, too, behind the efforts \u2014 although a bill introduced in the House last week by Pearce is different from the original proposal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Sun-News probably played down the difference: Pearce wants to protect 58,500 acres in the Organ Mountains, while Bingaman and others are proposing protecting hundreds of thousands of acres throughout the county.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organmountains.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">growing movement<\/a> has rallied behind Bingaman\u2019s bill. When Pearce introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/03\/pearce-introduces-organ-mountains-protection-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">his bill<\/a> last week, Bingaman called it a starting point for negotiations between the Republican House and Democratic Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movement to protect the Organ Mountains and other areas in Do\u00f1a Ana County by designating the land as a national monument is growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,147,116],"class_list":["post-38524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-environment","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}