{"id":7512,"date":"2009-10-07T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T21:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2009-10-07T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T21:11:26","slug":"guv-announces-support-for-dona-ana-wilderness-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/guv-announces-support-for-dona-ana-wilderness-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv announces support for Do\u00f1a Ana wilderness bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5368\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5368 \" title=\"Richardson-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2-336x257.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> announced today his support for on a bill that would protect more than 350,000 acres of land in Do\u00f1a Ana County, including the Organ Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d111:s.01689:\">Organ Mountains \u2013 Desert Peaks Wilderness Act<\/a>, which is sponsored by U.S. Sens. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\/\">Tom Udall<\/a>, D-N.M., will be <a href=\"..\/2009\/10\/bingaman-to-hold-hearing-on-dona-ana-wilderness-bill\/\">considered Thursday<\/a> by a subcommittee of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which Bingaman chairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI applaud the leadership of Senator Bingaman and Senator Udall, who introduced this important legislation to protect many of the most important public lands in Southern New Mexico,\u201d Richardson said today in a news release. \u201cFrom the jagged spires of the Organ Mountains to the petroglyphs in Broad Canyon, this bill will protect some of the finest ecosystems and vistas that New Mexico\u2019s Chihuahuan Desert has to offer, while making an important contribution to our country\u2019s wilderness and National Landscape Conservation System.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators introduced the legislation <a href=\"..\/2009\/10\/2009\/09\/senators-introduce-dona-ana-county-wilderness-bill\/\">last month<\/a>. The bill would designate 259,000 acres as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilderness#United_States\">wilderness<\/a> and 100,000 acres as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Conservation_Area\">national conservation areas<\/a>. In addition to the Organ Mountains, land on and around the Robledo, Do\u00f1a Ana and Potrillo mountains would be protected.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would also release 16,350 acres currently designated as a wilderness study area along the county\u2019s border with Mexico. That\u2019s intended to address concerns that law enforcement patrols are hampered by rules against motorized vehicles entering the protected area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor announced today his support for on a bill that would protect more than 350,000 acres of land in Do\u00f1a Ana County, including the Organ Mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[115,147,148,107,116],"class_list":["post-7512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-environment","tag-richardson","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512","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=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}