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• A Plea from an Apache Youth

  My name is Twyla Rayne. I am an Apache Indian from the Mescalero Reservation. Otero Mesa is more than just a place to me. It’s a sanctuary, it’s a place of peace, understanding, reliability, not only for me, but animals of all sorts, as far as s...

• EcoFlight releases footage of Otero Mesa flyover

  EcoFlight - Southern New Mexico: Otero Mesa - Monument Proposal from EcoFlight on Vimeo.

• Otero Mesa and the America's Great Outdoors Initiative

  In July 2011, the Coalition for Otero Mesa developed the following report, which details point-by-point how the campaign to save this wild and beautiful grassland fits perfectly into the Obama Administration’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative. I...

• Tribal, enviro leaders lobby Obama for N.M. national monument

  Phil Taylor and Manuel Quinones, E&E reporters June 30, 2011 Tribal and environmental leaders lobbied the Obama administration this week to designate a national monument on more than a million acres in southern New Mexico, a sacred land to some...

• Styve Homnick

  Meet  the man with a passion for Otero Mesa: Styve Homnick. In this feature article from Vámanos! weekly, Styve shares his journey from Brooklyn blues musician to wilderness defender and his special relationship with the Mescalero Apache. Walkin...

• Babbitt blames White House for bartering away Otero Mesa lands

  [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1024" caption="Rainbow on Otero Mesa's Alamo Mountain, 2010"][/caption] POLITICS: Babbitt blames White House ‘munchkins’ for bartering away public lands (06/08/2011) Phil Taylor, E&E reporter ...

• Otero Mesa a Sacred Place to Apache

  Albuquerque Journal Sun, Jun 5, 2011 By Ted Rodriguez, Alfred LaPaz, Larry Shay, Houston Murphy, and Styve Homnick / Mescalero Apache Advocates For Otero Mesa National Monument Until a few months ago only a handful of the curious knew the import...

• Congressman Heinrich Concerned About Otero Mesa Mining Claims

  On June 1st, Congressman Martin Heinrich (D-NM) wrote a letter to the Las Cruces Bureau of Land Management airing concerns over potential impacts of hardrock mining in America’s wildest grassland – Otero Mesa. Click here to read the full letter,...

• Mining Claims in Otero Mesa Nearly Triple

  Mining Claims in Otero Mesa Nearly Triple Geovic Mining Corp goes from staking 68 mining claims to 183 in the heart of America’s wildest grassland FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 5, 2011 CONTACT: Nathan Newcomer, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance 505-25...

• KRWG TV: New Mining Claims Staked on Otero Mesa

  March 2, 2011 – KRWG TV Las Cruces interviews New Mexico Wildlife Federation’s John Cornell and New Mexico Wilderness Alliance’s Nathan Newcomer on the new mining claims staked on Otero Mesa’s Wind Mountain by Geovic Mining Corporation. Leng...