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Welcome to Earth Matters. This week’s installment presents a preview of the major environmental issues and events for 2014 and features the three producers of Earth Matters –
In the coming year, the Gila Wilderness will mark its 90th year of wilderness designation and protection as well as being the very first wilderness area to be recognized by the US government and throughout the world. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the current federal wilderness protection program of which The Gila is part and includes all other wilderness areas within the US and both are great cause for celebration.
They also discuss the looming AWSA / Arizona Water Settlements Act and its potential catastrophic effect on the Gila – New Mexico’s last free flowing river and one of the very few remaining throughout the Southwest. 2014 will mark the deadline for New Mexico to decide to divert and destroy or preserve and protect one of its most precious natural resources.
Also on the 2014 calendar is another landmark – the 10th Annual Gila River Festival and this anniversary shall be very meaningful in the context of the other events mentioned above.
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Earth Matters / Environmental Issues – 2014 Preview
575.388.2988 This week's edition of Earth Matters, Allyson Siwik interviews Alicia Edwards, Executive Director of The Volunteer Center on Hunger and Food Security in Grant County. It’s shocking to learn that in our country – the richest nation in the world – millions of people do not have enough to eat. 1 in 5 kids in America – 16 million children ---live in families that struggle to put food on the […]
