Questa • Red River • Cerro • Costilla • Amalia • Lama • San Cristobal
We got a good, old-fashioned snow dump last night, the kind that could put your car in a ditch if you got too distracted by
In this year’s 60-day legislative session our elected representatives will discuss bills dealing with education, housing, energy, climate, equity, and other important issues. As always,
Having finished the online New York Times crossword puzzle over morning coffee, retweeting some delicious burns on climate-change deniers, checking Facebook and Instagram, liking a
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,
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
On the Value of Optimism On a trip to Chama yesterday, I took outsized pleasure in the hazardous driving conditions. It was snowing hard, which,
Trout Unlimited Senior Producer Honored by OWAAReprinted with permission from Trout Unlimited As editor-in-chief at Trout Unlimited, I am grateful every day for the talent
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