Editor's Letter: Water Signs
WHEN THE NEWS CAME IN mid-April, we were well into reporting this month’s “Worth Every Last Drop” cover story. The Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit American Rivers had placed New Mexico’s rivers—yes…
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Steve joined New Mexico Magazine as editor in chief in March. You can email him at steve.gleydura@state.nm.us.
WHEN THE NEWS CAME IN mid-April, we were well into reporting this month’s “Worth Every Last Drop” cover story. The Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit American Rivers had placed New Mexico’s rivers—yes…
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Read MoreJOHN TRAUB NEVER WANTS to forget what it’s like to be a fan—ever. In 21 seasons as Albuquerque Isotopes general manager, Traub has ventured to every part of Rio Grande Credit Union Field to better…
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Read MoreFOR MOST OF MY LIFE, summer and baseball have gone together like a bat and glove. From T-ball to Little League and all the way through college, summers revolved around the baseball schedule. When my…
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Read MoreON 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…
Read MoreROUTE 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…
Read MoreJIM 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…
Read MorePAM 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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