Plan for BLM management balanced but funding limits loom
The plan seeks to balance ranching hunting rafting and other users while prioritizing range and recreation. It urges cutting back grazing permits to improve range quality and argues for spending on water sources fences and enforced special management areas. It covers San Antonio Mountain and Fun Valley, ORV rules, mineral exploration limits, and the need for inter-agency cooperation to curb poaching vandalism and misuse.
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Bureau of Land Management
BLM
Washington
Rio Grande
San Antonio
Fun Valley
Espanola
Forest Service
Public comments urged as BLM Taos plan lags behind Carson
As of last week the Bureau of Land Management had only eight written comments on its long term Taos Resource Area plan. The BLM budgets about 500000 to 600000 yearly versus Carson’s 6.1 million in 1987, highlighting understaffing and funding gaps affecting land management in Taos Rio Arriba Santa Fe Colfax Union San Miguel Mora and Harding counties. Deadline for comment is Wednesday July 1.
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Bureau of Land Management
Taos
BLM
New Mexico
Carson National Forest
Carson
Forest Service
Rio Arriba
Santa Fe
Colfax
Union
San Miguel
Mora
Harding
Pilar
Molycorp
Guadalupe
Questa
BILM
Cabot Plaza Grand Opening Ad Highlights 1972
A 1972 full page ad for the Cabot Plaza lists dedication ceremonies with Mary Cabot Garcia Mayor Phillip Cantu and Town Council, plus Mariachi Gaia Band. It spotlights shops including Susan Reynold's The Color Co. Taos Antiques J. Bowers and Julien goldsmith, Black Bear Book Shop, Hummingbird Shop, Kachina Gift Shop, Lady Bug Boutique, Faire Exchange, Taos One gallery, Dennis Hopper works, and more. Also promotes furnished apartments at Taos Hast, Cream pies at Plaza Super Market, Falstaff beer at Safeway, and free American flag dry cleaning at Howell Cleaners for July 4.
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Cabot Plaza
Mary Cabot Garcia
Phillip Cantu
Susan Reynold
the Color Co
Taos Antiques
J. Bowers
Julien
Black Bear Book
Hummingbird
Les Edwards
Kachina
Lady Bug
Faire Exchange
Taos One
Dennis Hopper
Taos Hast
Plaza Super Market
Safeway
Howell Cleaners
Forum Park fees support Rio Grande Gorge access plan
Editor Gary Stiler explains New Mexico state parks must cover costs with user fees due to general fund shortfalls. Five public hearings shaped a fee schedule. Taos locals get a $10 annual pass for unlimited day use at Rio Grande Gorge State Park. Through traffic incurs no fee. stopping to use grounds requires a 2 day use fee.
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Margaret
John Crown
New Mexico
State Park and Recreation Division
Taos
Rio Grande Gorge State Park
Coors Beer Criticized Over Nicaragua War In Letter
A Taos News reader forwards a Time magazine letter expressing distress at Coors Brewery's involvement seen as supporting Reagan era Nicaragua policy. The author urges drinkers to reconsider purchasing Coors six-packs and questions Joseph Coors wealth and influence.
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Time Magazine
The
Taos News
Coors Brewery
Reagan
Nicaragua
Coors Beer
Coors
U.S
Washington
Colorado
Joseph Coors
William Randolph Hearst
Harold R. Timber
Once Upon a Time in Hoar’s Nicaragua Critique
Ronald F. Oest argues that Senator Hoar misframes Nicaragua, accusing him of sugarcoating Ortega’s Sandinistan regime. He contrasts a free press in the United States with Nicaragua where opposition papers are banned, dismissing Hoar’s anti communism critique as illusion.
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Hoar
U.S
Nicaragua
Ronald F. Oest
Arroyo Seco
Forum guidelines for letters and turn-?columns at Taos News
The Taos News invites original letters up to 200 words and hand-signed. Turn columns are limited to 350 words and require a phone number. Writers are encouraged to reveal names and address letters to Forum, The Taos News, Boz U, Taos NM 87571.
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The
Taos News
Forum
Boz U
Taos
N.M
Questa School Board supports local labor on new high school
Good for Questa applauds the Questa School Board action to require at least 50 percent local labor on the new Questa High School. The group notes this is the first concrete step heard from officials to bolster the local construction economy and hopes others follow this example.
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Questa School Board
Questa High School
Taos County Contractors Association
Signs of greener Taos call for better road info and recycling
An elderhostler group from various states criticizes New Mexico tourism signs for lacking direction and argues for improved road signage. They urge Taos to adopt recycling efforts and energy conservation, inviting local help to start a greener, self-sufficient community.
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New Mexico Business Journal
Las Palomas de Taos
Grassroots Peacewalkers to Leningrad Gather for June Visit
Kim Garver writes as one of many from across the country joining Soviet American Peacewalkers to visit Leningrad in June. He emphasizes a grassroots effort, speaking only for himself, and encourages Taos residents to share personal messages, poems, pictures, or songs for the Soviet people.
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Leningrad
Soviet Union
Kim Garver
Taos
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Romo
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Pat Taylor
Leslie Wiard
Suzan Valerio
James Vigil
Albuquerque
N.M. Ecapuon Rales
Taos County
Kole Valley
Shem
el Crepusculo, Inc
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P.O. Boad
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Plains
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New Mexico State Park Recreation Division
USA Today
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Moscow
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