Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player. August 10, 2010 KRWG TV/FM Las Cruces-El Paso interviewed New Mexico Wilderness Alliance  Associate Director Nathan Newcomer last month regarding protection of Otero Mesa as a National Monument.  The...

“I used to think that there was something magical about Otero Mesa, but now I know better. Otero Mesa is just simply—wild. This land of rolling hills, undulating black grama grass, and endless sky embodies the intoxicating spirit of freedom....

Now is the ideal time to encourage Secretary of the Department of the Interior Ken Salazar to pursue National Monument designation for Otero Mesa! In the spirit of President Obama’s April memorandum, America’s Great Outdoors Initiative, our...

On April 28, 2009 the United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision invalidating the Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas drilling plan for New Mexico’s Otero Mesa. The court ruled that the BLM’s original Resource Management Plan...

From The Santa Fe New Mexican 4/29/2009 – 4/30/09 To embattled environmentalists and their lawyers, and for politicians taking their side, it came as a ray of sunshine. As for the endangered and threatened animals on whose behalf they’ve been...

There are very few large swaths of black gramma grasslands left in America. The following is presented only as a working list of grasses found on Otero Mesa in southern Eddy County, New Mexico. The list is based on the work by Kelly W. Allred, A Field...

Blowing grasslands in central Otero Mesa. By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Writer 4-29-09 The Bureau of Land Management failed to comply with federal law in developing a plan for managing oil and natural gas development on southern New Mexico’s...