What We're Reading: Fountain Creek
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE contributor and Pueblo, Colorado, native Jim O’Donnell traces the flow of his hometown watershed in Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (Torrey House Press). “The world…
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Tag: Water
Restoring Life to the Lordsburg Playa
IN THE FIRST BLUSH of dawn, the Lordsburg Playa conjures a mirage—a layer of dew rising from its fractured, elephant-skin crust, glistening with bright promise. Maybe the land has learned something, I…
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Make a Splash in New Mexico Waters
PADDLE Runnable sections line the Río Grande, including classic whitewater lines well-suited to rafting and kayaking like the Race Course and the Box; day-float sections like the one through the…
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Ride the Waves of the Río
AS WE PILE INTO A VAN for the drive upstream to the put-in at Alameda Bridge in Corrales, the conversation quickly turns to the river: How high is the water? Is it up or down from last week? It’s…
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Dig Deep into Zuni Farming Traditions
FROM THE FRONT, Ts’uyya Farm looks like an unassuming adobe in Albuquerque’s South Valley. But as I follow farmer Reyna Banteah behind the terra-cotta-colored walls, she reveals an agricultural oasis…
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Three Artists Inspired by Water
SASHA VOM DORP Taos Sasha vom Dorp set out to see sound. After learning that sounds had form, he started searching for its shapes and for a medium that would respond to its waves. The answer was…
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Our Water Issues Threaten These Species
RÍO GRANDE SILVERY MINNOW About 25 years ago, the collapse of the Río Grande silvery minnow population alerted people that the river itself needed water. Despite a decades-long effort to reshape water…
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Cool Down at These Water Escapes
CHILL OUT AFTER THE HOT SPRINGS. Drop into some hot springs at Jemez Springs—either primitive or developed. Hikers can reach the natural pools at Spence Hot Springs or McCauley Warm Springs, both in…
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Take a Hike to the Headwaters
MAP A RIVER AND ALL its tributaries, and the web will swallow entire Western states. There’s not a single source, but a network of them. “All the major rivers of the country start as these little…
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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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