All Pueblo Council of Governors voice support for legislation to permanently protect Chaco Canyon

All Pueblo Council of Governors voice support for legislation to permanently protect Chaco Canyon

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The All Pueblo Council of Governors is voicing its strong support for new legislation to permanently protect Chaco Canyon. The APCG represents the 19 pueblos of New Mexico and one in Texas, and on Thursday, every governor supported the piece of legislation. ‘We’ve always been a city of poets’: Celebrating National Poetry Month in Santa Fe The greater Chaco region is a landscape of deep cultural, spiritual, and historica…

Pueblos, environmentalists herald reintroduction of federal legislation to protect Chaco Canyon

New Mexico, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Pueblo Bonito, ancestral Puebloan great house ruins, AD 850 to AD 1150, UNESCO World Heritage SiteThe reintroduction by New Mexico’s entire federal delegation of the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act sparked widespread praise on Thursday from pueblos, environmentalists and others. The legislation would create a 10-mile buffer zone around the park — the Chaco Protection Zone —in which …

New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation - Archaeology Southwest

Dear Friends, Well, last Thursday, April 3, after I wrote to you, we received a uniquely sourced, strangely formatted, poorly written e-mail. Ostensibly (see below) from the federal government, it was a notice of termination for our recently awarded $350,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant that funds meaningfully important expansions of the cyberSW database project. We were dreading but expecting this missive, because the ironi…

NM community groups strongly support bill to codify 10-mile mineral withdrawal surrounding Chaco - Western Environmental Law Center

New Mexico community groups today express their strong support for the revival of a 2023 bill backed by the state’s entire Congressional delegation to codify into law a 10-mile buffer zone restricting new oil and gas extraction around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Trump administration intends to reverse a 20-year administrative mineral withdrawal to intensify the oil and gas assault on this culturally and historically significant a…