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All We’ve Surveyed: Five Years After the Gold King Mine Spill

A gold-tinted river flows.

By Laura Paskus Five years ago, crews reopening an abandoned mine in the mountains of southern Colorado breached a containment wall, spewing three million gallons of mining waste into a tributary of the Animas River. Given the mine’s alpine location—which averages 15 feet of snow each year—fieldwork is limited and conditions can change drastically between…

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Third Anniversary Interview and Our Land: Gila Diversion Decision

Composite of various New Mexican terrains, with superimposed text "OUR LAND'S THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!"

July 10, 2020 – NMiF host Gene Grant celebrates the third anniversary of the show’s monthly series Our Land with environmental journalist Laura Paskus, who talks about the state’s outlook and attitudes toward the environment. Paskus also presents a new Our Land segment that looks at the apparent death of Gila River diversion plans and the millions of dollars spent searching for a…

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