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Efforts are underway to protect snakes, frogs in the Gila area

When the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy sets up booths and tables to educate people about their work, a noticeable trend appears: the children are excited to hold the snakes but the adults are concerned or afraid. “People aren’t born with a fear of snakes, typically,” ARC Conservation Program Coordinator José Garrido said in an interview […]

Grants for Distance Learning Help Create Outdoor Classes

Monte del Sol Charter School in New Mexico used federal distance-learning grants to build structures and pathways to accommodate classes outdoors, for example to teach students about gardening.

NM to celebrate its first week of outdoor learning

Public 'flying blind' in New Mexico's largely virtual legislative session

By Daniel J. Chacón and Robert Nott, Santa Fe New Mexican | February 22, 2021 Gabriela Campos/Santa Fe New Mexican Sen. Benny Shendo Jr., D-Jemez Pueblo, looks through paperwork during a meeting of the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee on Thursday. Shendo meets with committee members in a mostly empty committee room with a small staff to assist with organization and Zoom management. To hear House Speaker Brian Egolf tell it, public participation in this year’s largely virtual legislative session has been robust even if the doors of the state Capitol have been closed to everyday New Mexicans. In the second and third weeks of the 60-day session, more than 6,100 residents from 32 of the state’s 33 counties have voiced their opinions during committee hearings in the House of Representatives up from the 2,400 who tuned in the first week.

Public 'Flying Blind' In New Mexico Virtual 2021 Session