Questa • Red River • Cerro • Costilla • Amalia • Lama • San Cristobal
Read that sentence out loud and close your eyes. What images come to mind? The fat guy in the red suit? Candy canes and biscochitos, a steaming bowl of posole
In New Mexico, it’s practically illegal to dislike acequias. They take us back to a time when things weren’t so complicated, when you knew your neighbors by name and even
Rio Costilla Beavers: Friend and FoeThe Rio Costilla has certainly had its share of water troubles in the past. Disputes have flared between towns, acequias, and parciantes on both sides
When I ran a fly shop long ago, I’d look at fishing magazines and see myself in all the pictures. I hadn’t heard the term “bucket list” yet, and if
With all the rain that’s fallen recently, it might be easy to forget that only a short while ago, we were all petrified at the thought of losing our forests
In the world of today—200,000 years into human evolution and a couple centuries into the Industrial Age—few living beings can embody the concept of pristine Nature like native fish. We
Like most fly fishermen, I keep a mental list of my desert island flies, the bugs I must have in my box to ensure that I’ll catch fish on every
The beaver is what is known as a keystone species, an organism that can shape or define an ecosystem with its behavior and habits. There is a beautiful diversity of
After a corona virus-induced hiatus, the cherished Rio Grande cutthroat trout stocking event will return to the Questa area this April. That’s the great news. The bad news is that
The Time is Coming, or at Least That’s What We Refuse to Believe Water is in the news a lot these days, if not in our streams or in the
In winter, when trout can get as slushy as the waters in which they swim, anglers go on believing there’s some secret to success. Just because I fish a lot,
With the guidance of adult mentors, a growing working group of Questa youth are leading an effort to create a skatepark in their village. This project will entail choosing a
I once wrote an article for a fishing magazine about a stream that at least one person thought should be kept a secret. This man claimed that my article would
A Veteran Gives Back Wes Dyer has been a fly fisherman since he was a boy growing up in Albuquerque. Nothing hard core—he was just a normal New Mexico kid
In late July, the Carson, Cibola, and Santa Fe National Forests released the final Northern New Mexico Riparian, Aquatic, and Wetland NEPA decision, with the intention of streamlining the National
Anyone who’s known me for more than a few minutes has learned that I am somewhat of a trout geek. Since I first became aware of their existence as a
By TONER MITCHELL The Rio Chiquito near Ranchos de Taos is your typical New Mexican trout stream—narrow, brushy, and packed with trout. It is where I caught my very first
By TONER MITCHELL New Mexico is a land of stark contrasts—mountains vaulting up from sagebrush plains, canyons gashed in the earth. In contrast, the Tusas Range in the north central
By TONER MITCHELL For those who are unaware, National Go Fishing Day will be on Friday June 18, at which time it is the duty of every American citizen to
Albuquerque has its balloon fiesta and Santa Fe has Zozobra. Many places also have annual celebrations around nature-made events: the blossoming of Washington, D.C.’s cherry trees, for example, or the