Preventing uranium mining in Carson Forest is critical

Preventing uranium mining in Carson Forest is critical

Thanks for Tirzio Lopez’s alarming My View (“Safeguarding Chama, Carson will take all of us,” My View, March 28). Food-eating, water-drinking and air-breathing New Mexicans must do everything necessary to prevent uranium exploration in the Carson National Forest and the…

Uranium mining in the Chama Valley? Also: Public lands for affordable housing in Las Vegas; Images of the Big Fat Melt Off — Jonathan P. Thompson (LandDesk.org)

Storefront, Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, with slogans remembering the 1967 Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Raid by Reies Lopez Tijerina to protest the federal governments theft of Mexican land grants. Now a Canadian company is proposing to explore for uranium near Canjilon. Ian M. Thompson photo. Click the link to read the article on The Land Desk website (Jonathan P. Thompson): March 31, 2026 The so-called uranium mining renaissance mostly remains …