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Plants and People with Kelly Kindscher Earth Matters co-producer Allyson Siwik discusses plants and people with Kelly Kindscher, plant ecologist, ethnobotanist, professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas and senior scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey. We, as humans, are dependent upon plants for our existence. Plants provide us with food, raw materials for shelter and clothing, and chemical compounds for medicinal and other uses. Plant communities are an […]

On October 6, the NM state legislature's Interim Water and Natural Resources Committee met at Highlands University in Las Vegas, NM.  One of the items on their agenda was the Arizona Water Settlements Act (AWSA). At the end of this year, New Mexico must notify the Secretary of the Interior if it will move forward with a Gila River division project under the AWSA.  The Interstate Stream Commission (ISC) will […]

Why does wilderness call to us? Perhaps the need for wildness is hard-wired in each of us, whether we heed the call or not. If anyone would know, it's New Mexico native son, writer and conservationist Dave Foreman. Foreman returns to the Gila River Festival this year to speak about the intrinsic value of wilderness, America’s first wilderness river, and the history of the Gila Wilderness Area. For decades, Foreman […]

How much water is really available to New Mexico under the Arizona Water Settlements Act (AWSA)? How much water can a Gila River diversion project really provide after accounting for evaporation and seepage? What does the NM Interstate Stream Commission's secret model tell us about the agency's plans to develop Gila River water? In this special Gila River Festival presentation, Norm Gaume, former Interstate Stream Commission director and chief critic […]