Law and Legislation
Laws, legislation or other legal aspects of watersheds.
- Smallwood News
- Newsletter of the Smallwood Utilization Network 10/28/09
- EPA Green Infrastructure Permitting Fact Sheet 3: Sanitary Sewer Overflows
- Depending on the causes of SSOs for a particular system, green infrastructure approaches may be used in conjunction with grey infrastructure improvements and capacity, management, operations and maintenance (CMOM) to help eliminate SSOs. This factsheet discusses how green infrastructure approaches may be integrated into CMOM plans and CSO consent decrees.
- New Mexico Invasive Plants Grants RFA form
- This RFA includes information about the funding opportunities for the New Mexico Invasive Plants Grants
- Miranda Canyon Project in northern NM approved for 2012 funding
- US Forest Service targets $40.6M from Land and Water Conservation Fund to purchase, restore lands in 15 states
- Field Trip Opportunity in SW Jemez Mtns
- The Santa Fe National Forest is hosting three educational field trips into the Southwest Jemez Mountains Landscape Restoration project area. Field trip dates are: Saturday, June 2; Saturday, June 30; and Saturday, July 14. Registration forms will be available May 9 through May 25, between 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., at the Santa Fe National Forest Headquarters located at 11 Forest Lane in southwest Santa Fe and at the Jemez Ranger Station located at 051 Woodsy Lane in Jemez Springs. Registration forms are also available online at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe/jemez_mtn_rest/index.html. All forms, including those received through e-mail, must be mailed and postmarked or hand-carried no later than May 25. By May 31, everyone who was selected to participate in the field trips will be notified by phone or email. Details about the field trips are outlined within the registration form.
- Onsite Insight: Monthly Newsletter from the U.S. Water Alliance - August 28, 2013
- Joyce Hudson and her team work with septic system businesses, utilities, regulators, and public health officials to advance environmentally sustainable, onsite decentralized systems that leave homeowners happy and watersheds healthy. It's centered on education, training, and collaboration.
- Divining Rod Newsletter by NM Water Resources Research Institute
- The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (NM WRRI) is pleased to present the latest issue of the Divining Rod. (Vol. XXXV, No. 2, April 2012)
- Annual Joint Meeting: NM/AZ Wildlife Society & American Fisheries Society Jan 31, 2013 07:15 PM
- This year's Joint Annual Meeting of the New Mexico and Arizona chapters of the Wildlife Society and the American Fisheries Society will be focused on the topic "Ecosystem Thresholds: Fire, Water, & Climate".
- NM State Forestry announces 2015-2016 New Mexico Invasive Plants Program - Request for applications now out
- The New Mexico Invasive Plants application is now out. The legal notice and RFA (which includes the application) can be found on our website with the link attached. This program has been successful by supporting Cooperative Weed Management areas addressing invasive weed problems threatening forested areas across New Mexico.
- Western wildfires threaten water supplies, study finds
- WASHINGTON — The risk of severe wildfires in the West also threatens the region’s increasingly scarce water supply, a new study finds.
- Colorado State University Water Center
- Newsletter - January/February 2009 - Volume 26, Issue 1
- Tribal Climate Change Newsletter July 2015
- Welcome to ITEP's Tribal Climate Change Newsletter. This monthly newsletter provides news items, resources, announcements about funding opportunities, conferences, and training, and other information relevant to tribal climate change issues.
- Third National Climate Assessment
- Today, delivering on our legal mandate and the President’s Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the Third National Climate Assessment, the most comprehensive, authoritative, transparent scientific report on U.S. climate change impacts ever generated. The report confirms that climate change is affecting every region of the country and key sectors of the U.S. economy and society, underscoring the need to combat the threats climate change presents and increase the preparedness and resilience of American communities.
- SW Fire Science Consortium
- Summer 2015 Newsletter
- Environmental Flows Bulletin December 2012
- In this issue of Environmental Flows Bulletin, the Utton Center presents stories from three of the state's most important rivers: the Rio Grande, the Gila, and the Pecos. We also offer voices and perspectives critical to understanding the complexity of water in New Mexico-and the challenges the state faces in a time of drought and climate change.
- EMNRD - District Forester Job Announcement 10/22/15 - 11/5/15
- This position is the District Forester for the Forestry Division in Capitan, New Mexico with the Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD). This position is responsible for wild land fire suppression, and providing technical assistance to private landowners and communities at risk to wildfire within southeastern New Mexico. The District is comprised of 8,591,874 acres of non-federal and non-municipal lands in Otero, Lincoln, Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt, Lea and Eddy counties. This position requires knowledge of federal and state laws, regulations, legal agreements and policies and procedures that guides in decision making and program implementation in the field. The position supervises the implementation of all forestry programs to include the Smokey Bear Historical Park, fire management, forest and watershed health management, timber harvesting regulations, service forestry and all administrative activities on the district. This position is also responsible for maintaining compliance with department and division policies, state procurement code, contract management and federal codes relating to the delivery of federal programs.
- Cumulative Watershed Effects of Fuel Management in the Western United States
- Fire suppression in the last century has resulted in forests with excessive amounts of biomass, leading to more severe wildfires, covering greater areas, requiring more resources for suppression and mitigation, and causing increased onsite and offsite damage to forests and watersheds. Forest managers are now attempting to reduce this accumulated biomass by thinning, prescribed fire, and other management activities. These activities will impact watershed health, particularly as larger areas are treated and treatment activities become more widespread in space and in time. Management needs, laws, social pressures, and legal findings have underscored a need to synthesize what we know about the cumulative watershed effects of fuel management activities. In this 2010 synthesis by the Rocky Mountain Research Station, 14 chapters were defined covering fire and forests, machinery, erosion processes, water yield and quality, soil and riparian impacts, aquatic and landscape effects, and predictive tools and procedures. These chapters provide an overview of our current understanding of the cumulative watershed effects of fuel management in the western United States.
- Surface Water Quality Bureau - UTILITY OPERATOR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
- LEGAL NOTICE is hereby given that the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission’s Utility Operators Certification Advisory Board will convene a meeting on Thursday, May 12th, 2016 beginning at 2:00 p.m. to discuss the reorganization of the Utility Operator Certification Program under the New Mexico Environment Department’s Drinking Water Bureau. The meeting will be held at The New Mexico Environment Department’s District 1 Office, 121 Tijeras Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Albuquerque, NM 87102. The meeting will be in the Sandia Conference Room. Please contact Anne Keller, Utility Operator Certification Program at 505-222-9575 for further information. A copy of the final agenda will be posted on the Utility Operator Certification Program webpage under the “Special Announcements” section 72-hours prior to the meeting (https://www.env.nm.gov/swqb/UOCP/). All interested individuals are encouraged to attend. If you are an individual with a disability and you require assistance or an auxiliary aid, (e.g., sign language interpreter), to participate in any aspect of this process, please contact Juan Carlos Borrego by May 3, 2016. Mr. Borrego’s telephone number is 505-827-0424. He is the Chief of the Personnel Services Bureau, New Mexico Environment Department, P.O. Box 5469, 1190 St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502. (TDD or TDY users please access his number via the New Mexico Relay Network at 1-800-659-8331).
- New Mexico State Forestry Division Announces Achievements in Watershed Restoration Initiative
- The New Mexico State Forestry Division has achieved accelerated progress in Governor Susana Martinez’s Watershed Restoration Initiative. The $6.2 million appropriation was signed into law in 2014, issuing severance tax dollars to treat priority watersheds on public land. By the end of this year, nearly half of the targeted 7,700 acres will have been completed and seven (7) of the projects will be finished.
- Texas Sues New Mexico over Rio Grande
- This is an updated article on Texas' lawsuit against New Mexico regarding the allocation of water regulated at Elephant Butte Reservoir, posted in the Albuquerque Journal by local environmental journalist John Fleck.
