I backpacked and dayhiked segments of New Mexico’s potential new thru hike: the Rio Grande Trail. Here’s what it was like.

N.M., said he will oppose any attempt by Trump or congressional Republicans to "rip away our national monuments." ...

Mat Pirolo took his first helicopter ride at age 9. Although the experience was memorable, the flight on the small commercial helicopter was short-lived, lasting only a matter of minutes. It started ...

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Senate Republicans are considering a plan to sell 2 million acres of public lands, something conservation groups in New Mexico worry could undermine local community input on public land sales and the ...

With extreme weather becoming more common due to the climate crisis, the past few years have seen some of the most ...

Ever since South Fork was established in the late 1880s, there has been at least one sawmill in this valley surrounded by the 1.8 million-acre Rio Grande National Forest. A family-owned sawmill, ...

Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for centuries. Today, the Quilombolas number about 1.3 ...

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Tucked into a narrow valley where the mighty Rio Grande begins its epic journey, Creede, Colorado exists like a perfect pause ...

The town sits at the gateway to some of Colorado’s most spectacular wilderness areas, with the Rio Grande National Forest ...

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, who represents Colorado, assembled a legislative public lands roundtable attended by the media.