Earth Matters

As New Mexico's last free-flowing river, Martha Schumann Cooper, Southwest New Mexico Field Representative for The Nature Conservancy, has developed a particular fondness for the Gila. GRIP Executive Director and Earth Matters co-producer, Allyson Siwik, talks with Martha about The Nature Conservancy's work to protect and restore the Gila and the potential ecological implications of water diversions, pipelines and storage facilities contemplated under the Arizona Water Settlements Act. For more information, visit […]

This week's installment of Earth Matters features Elna Otter, longtime environmental and social justice activist based in Tucson, AZ interviewed by Donna Stevens, co-producer of Earth Matters and Executive Director of Upper Gila Watershed Alliance. Elna's current activities include participation in the Sierra Club's efforts to shed light, increase transparency and demand accountability on the border fence along the US/Mexico border with particular emphasis on the environmental impacts and effects […]

This week's installment of Earth Matters is hosted by Dr Kim McCreery, SW Regional Director and Staff Scientist with the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Co-Director of the African Wild Dog Conservancy Her guest is Nancy Kaminski who speaks on the issue of critically endangered Mexican wolves and the recovery program in the Apache and Gila National Forests. As mandated by the Endangered Species Act, Mexican gray wolves were reintroduced […]

This installment of Earth Matters is hosted by Allyson Siwik of GRIP and features Sally Smith - one of GRIP's founders - who has been deeply involved for the last several months in a stakeholder process that totaled some twenty meetings including environmental, mining industry and NMED agency representatives to develop prescriptive regulations that use best practices as a model for this significant revision and to insure compliance with the […]

This is the second installment of Earth Matters and Donna Stevens - Executive Director of Upper Gila Watershed Alliance - will host this week's program. Donna addresses the issue of the Gila National Forest Travel Management Plan and also discusses how the issue relates to the SWCCA / Southwest County Commission Alliance that has been mired in controversy since its inception due to intemperate remarks by public officials suggesting violation […]

This is the inaugural presentation of Earth Matters and what better to feature than The Gila River Festival - the Gila being the last free flowing river in the state of New Mexico, one of the few in the Southwest and among a dwindling number worldwide. Kim McCreery - Silver City Regional Director of NMWild interviews her collaborators and cohosts, Allyson Siwik and Donna Stevens, executive directors of GRIP and […]