Author: Susan Montoya Bryan
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Search resumes for missing Colorado treasure hunter
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Authorities on Wednesday resumed the search for a Colorado man who disappeared more than three months ago while hunting for a $2 million cache of gold, jewels and artifacts in a rugged part of New Mexico. Officials at Bandelier National Monument confirmed that a search-and-rescue mission was underway in an area of…
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Feds to set aside land in Western states for rare mouse
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The federal government is setting aside nearly 22 square miles across three western states as critical habitat for a rare mouse that has already pitted ranchers against the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that areas in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona will be…
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Missing hunter of $2 million treasure followed these clues
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Santa Fe, New Mexico, antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn wrote in his memoir “The Thrill of the Chase,” self-published in 2010, that somewhere high in the Rocky Mountains, he had hidden a small bronze treasure chest containing nearly $2 million in gold coins, jewelry and precious artifacts. Since then, tens of thousands of…
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Latino lawmakers look to USDA to address civil rights issues
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is embarking on a partnership with universities across the country in hopes of infusing its ranks with more diversity as it faces civil rights complaints from Latino farmers and ranchers. But some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are voicing frustration, saying the agency has been dragging…
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NM water release aims to help silvery minnow
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — When nature fails to provide, faking it might be the next best option. Water managers and biologists have come up with a plan they think will trick the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow into spawning this spring. They started releasing extra water into the Rio Grande on Monday in an effort…
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New Mexico taking aim at drone use in hunting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is in line to become the next state to take aim at the use of drones for hunting big game animals. Alaska, Colorado and Montana already have outlawed the…
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Drones unearth more details about ancient village in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Recently published research describes how archaeologists outfitted a customized drone with a heat-sensing camera to unearth what they believe are ceremonial pits and other features at the site of an ancient village in New Mexico. The discovery of the structures hidden beneath layers of sediment and sagebrush is being hailed as an…
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Scientists sorting out beetle-fire relationship
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables — mixing and matching and rearranging — to gain a better understanding of what makes…
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Scientists sorting out beetle-fire relationship
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables — mixing and matching and rearranging — to gain a better understanding of what makes wildfire go. They’re busy building computer models as firefighters toil on steep mountainsides to put out more than a dozen…
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Ultra-runner Micah True died from heart disease
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ultra-marathon runner Micah True died from heart disease while on a routine 12-mile run in late March in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, authorities said Tuesday. An autopsy report showed that…