Neighbors Magazine | LasCruces.com

Neighbors Magazine | LasCruces.com

Neighbors

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Happy Home | Clearing Cobwebs

It’s springtime! Seasonal bulbs are bursting through the earth to show off their beautiful array of colors, baby birds can be heard chirping hungrily from their nests, our favorite baseball teams are gearing up to thrill us through a new season, and it’s time to deep clean the house! Wait, what? How did amazing and fun things turn into chores?… Related

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Projects Bring Wildlife Back to the Rio Grande

The Rio Grande is nearly 2,000 miles long and sustains life in three states and two countries. It starts in Colorado, winds through New Mexico, forms a natural border between Texas and Mexico, and finally connects to the Gulf of Mexico. Over the past 100 years, though, every drop of water in the river has been managed via legislation for agriculture and human water supply and is controlled with storage and diversion dams. Today, only a small percentage of the river’s natural flow makes it to the Gulf of Mexico. Human consumption and river management have largely impacted plants and wildlife that depend on the river for sustenance. The amount of water available in the river each year is determined by snowpacks and the amount of precipitation. A dry year equals a dry river, which can be fatal for wildlife dependent on it. “The Rio Grande has been used and abused in a big way for more than a century,” says Kevin Bixby, executive director of Southwest Environmental Center (SWEC) in Las Cruces. “Beginning in the late 1800s, here in Southern New Mexico, the river started to dry out.” He… Related

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