Navajo Culture Day Teaches Corn Planting Techniques
Prayers for rain opened Navajo Nation Culture Day as Sevier Nelson led a corn planting presentation inside the Navajo Nation Museum hogan. The two day workshop covered soil prep irrigation weed control and traditional farming methods while participants planted Navajo corn for rain offerings. New Dawn supplied drought tolerant corn for the event.
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Sevier Nelson
Navajo Nation Museum
Navajo Nation
Nelson
New Dawn
Park Service imposes outdoor fire ban in Cibola McKinley
With severe drought spreading across the state the National Park Service has issued a fire ban for park service and nearby BLM lands in Cibola and McKinley counties. Open fires and even smoking outdoors are prohibited in park lands and in picnic area pits across about 116000 acres near State Highway 117. Park Service chief ranger Herschel Schulz cautioned the measure may extend to BLM property as well.
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National Park Service
Cibola
McKinley Counties
Park Service
National Monument
Herschel Schulz
Bureau of Land Management
BLM
Schulz
Office i
Dry New Mexico lakes shrink irrigation in Gallup region
We wer GALLUP Dry weather and lack of precipitation shrink lakes including Bluewater and Ramah Reservoir to about 4 percent of normal. NRCS officials Montoya and Oliver say 2,000 acres rely on these sources but are now irrigating via wells. Precipitation from January to April totaled 2.4 inches, below the usual 3 inches. McGaffey Lake drops lower, trout stocking suspended, perch dominate. Lack of water slows mixing and depletes bottom oxygen affecting wildlife.
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Gallup
New Mexico
Ramah
Ed Oliver
Natural Resource Conservation Service
Richard Montoya
NRCS
National Weather Service
McGaffey Lake
McGaffey
Paul Turner
Turner
Plateau Society eyes save of historic Hillside Cemetery
The Plateau Sciences Society will host a cleanup and historical documentation event at Hillside Cemetery in Gallup on Saturday. The neglected graves dating from the 1880s to 1914 suffer vandalism, debris, and missing stones, with locals like Octavia Fellin seeking genealogical data and community involvement to restore the site.
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Gallup
Hillside
Plateau ‘Sciences Society
Fifth Street
Victoria
Octavia Fellin
Fellin
Martin Link
Plateau Sciences Society
Link
United States
England
Scotland
Hillside Cemetery
Plateau Society
Allen Theatres takes over El Morro Theatre in Gallup
Allen Theatres gains the El Morro lease in Gallup and moves to install a digital sound system, add cup holders, and renovate seven screens citywide. The change brings longer lines but aims to save the historic venue with night renovations and planned upgrades at Aztec Five and Rio West theaters.
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Gallup
Larry Allen
The
Alten Theatres
Allen
el Morro
Aztec Five
Rio West
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Weiler
Elizabeth Hardin
West Mesa
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E.O.E
Bill Donovan Steff
Jen’ Theatre Chain
Las Cruces
Barbara Nelson
Michael Fagar
el Morro Theatre
Allen Theatres
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