Editor's Letter: Wild Times
ON JUNE 3, 1924, THE GILA WILDERNESS became the first-of-its-kind wilderness area—a federally designated place with no roads, no cabins, no vehicles. Or, as Aldo Leopold—the Forest Service employee…
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Editor's Letter: Road Signs
ROUTE 66 TRAVELERS have rarely had it so good. Oh, sure, maybe during the heyday of the Mother Road, but these days, breakfast at The Mystic, on the original Route 66 in Santa Fe, is pretty tough to…
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Editor's Letter: Hot Shots
JIM SHEPKA HAS NEW MEXICO’S FILM INDUSTRY to thank for much of his recent work. A former Marine who first came to the Land of Enchantment to visit his brother in the 1980s, Shepka retired to Rio…
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Meet the 23rd Annual Photo Contest Grand Prize Winner
PAM DORNER HAS ALWAYS ENJOYED the outdoors, from days spent playing in the creek near her childhood home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to walking the Río Grande bosque across from her house…
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Editor's Letter: Joy Story
NEW MEXICO IS A GIFT. The kind wrapped in the indigo, rose, and purple of the mountains at sunrise. The kind best appreciated with each new trail or back road traveled. The kind that reveals new…
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Editor's Letter: Bird Counts
AT DUSK, the birds returned in waves to the Wetland Roost at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Hundreds of snow geese floated in the water as the rest of the overwintering flock looked for a…
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Editor's Letter: Fall Fling
WHILE THERE’S SOMETHING to love about New Mexico in every season, I’m an unabashed fan of fall. Give me long sleeves and turning leaves, and I’m happy. In fact, with all there is to do in October, I…
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Editor's Letter: Fire Works
"BURN HIM! BURN HIM!” The ceremonies at last year’s 98th Burning of Zozobra had been delayed to permit the record crowd of 71,000 to finish making its way into Santa Fe’s Fort Marcy Park, and the…
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Editor's Letter: Star Powers
STARGAZING MAY NOT BE the first thing that comes to mind when visiting Fort Union National Monument. But the largest 19th-century military fort in the region sits on a strategic swath of open prairie…
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Editor's Letter: 100 Strong
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, the goals of the New Mexico Highway Journal were rather simple. In July 1923, that 16-page debut issue of what was to become New Mexico Magazine aspired to present some of the…
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