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In May 1983, avid hunter, fisherman, outdoorsman and writer, Dutch Salmon, made a 200 mile journey by foot and canoe down the Gila River from its headwaters at Bead Spring to the Solomon Dam in Arizona. This wasn't any old journey, since Dutch's companions were his hound dog, Rojo, and his tomcat. This week's host Allyson Siwik, Executive Director of the Gila Resources Information Project and the Gila Conservation Coalition, […]
Join host Allyson Siwik, Executive Director of the Gila Resources Information Project and Gila Conservation Coalition for this week's edition of Earth Matters. The subject is Craig Childs’ 2012 presentation at the 8th Annual Gila River Festival entitled Watercourse: Conversations with a Moving Element. No matter where we live, our world is laced with water that is constantly in motion. Glaciers collapsing off the coast of Greenland belong to the […]
With the Gila National Forest due to publish their decision on The Gila National Forest Travel Management Plan, we are revisiting Donna Stevens interview with Cindi Tuell. Travel Management sounds boring, but couldn't be more important. Earth Matters co-producer Donna Stevens of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance hosts this week's program with Cyndi Tuell, conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. Listen in on their discussion of the Travel […]
Community Supported Agriculture - otherwise referred to as “CSA” - is an alternative, locally-based economic model of agriculture and food distribution. Doug Smith of Townside Farm, a CSA located on Little Walnut Road in Silver City, is our guest on this week's program. Allyson Siwik, Executive Director of Gila Resources Information Project, is your host and they discuss how the Townside Farm CSA works, CSAs in general, the organic and […]
New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission Public Hearing on Copper Rule - Part Two Join host Allyson Siwik, Executive Director of Gila Resources Information Project, for part two of the Water Quality Control Commission Public Hearing on the Proposed Water Quality Rules for Copper Mining held in Silver City on May 3, 2013. The adoption of water quality rules specific to copper mining was mandated by amendments to the Water […]
New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission Public Hearing on Copper Rule - Part One Join host Allyson Siwik, Executive Director of Gila Resources Information Project, for part one of the Water Quality Control Commission Public Hearing on the Proposed Water Quality Rules for Copper Mining held in Silver City on May 3, 2013. The adoption of water quality rules specific to copper mining was mandated by amendments to the Water […]
Climate Change and Sustainability are very serious challenges to our world view and the entrenched economic interests that define our "Our Way of Life." This week's program features Deb James, retired teacher at Aldo Leopold High School and climate and local sustainability activist who serves on the Local Sustainability Advisory Committee. Donna Stevens - Executive Director of Upper Gila Watershed Alliance hosts this week's program and they discuss the issues […]
Gila Resources Information Project Director of Responsible Mining, Sally Smith, is our guest this week from Santa Fe. She’s been participating in the Water Quality Control Commission hearing on the proposed water quality rules for copper mining that began on April 9. She’ll be testifying this week in the proceeding and tells Earth Matters co-host, Allyson Siwik, what’s at stake for water supplies in Grant County and New Mexico if […]
In this week's episode of Earth Matters we revisit the Creative Voices portion of the 4th Natural History of the Gila Symposium which was presented last fall at Western New Mexico University. This portion of the Symposium brought together a number of naturalists and environmentalists to read essays, poetry and personal experiences in communion with the Gila Wilderness and National Forest. The Participants were... Dutch Salmon — “Dreaming the River” […]
