Jemez Springs News

On Monday fire managers treated an additional 80 acres within the Chaparral prescribed burn near Jemez Springs while preparing for a burn scheduled to start Tuesday southeast of Pecos.

Several prescribed burns are planned for the next few days by the Santa Fe National Forest.

Photo: Aspen stands suffering from sudden aspen decline, such as this one on Uncompahgre Plateau in Colorado, have brown leaves and blistering trunks one year, and the following year the trees fail to leaf out.

I ventured into this bath house last year in the early part of July after exploring the hiking trails and back roads of the Jemez Mountains in North Central New Mexico .

Trustees of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, the federally owned former cattle ranch in the Jemez Mountains, have agreed to lease - and perhaps one day buy - a 25-bedroom facility in Jemez Springs to use as an education and conference center.

The trustees of the Valles Caldera National Preserve have leased a facility in nearby Jemez Springs for an education and conference center.

Just a few of the 100 young Angus and Hereford bulls roaming the 8,700 ft. elevations at the Valles Caldera National Preserve on Saturday, July 25, 2009, in Jemez Springs, N.M. In a study by New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Beef Cattle Performance Association, researchers are conducting high-altitude cattle performance testing on the ...

Three young bulls in a herd of 100 roaming the Valles Caldera National Preserve graze on July 25 near Jemez Springs, N.M. AP More than 100 young Angus and Hereford bulls are on a working vacation at 8,700 feet above sea level in northern New Mexico, chomping on lush, high-meadow grass, helping researchers and ranchers get a handle on a disease that ...

More than 100 young Angus and Hereford bulls are on a working vacation at 8,700 feet above sea level in northern New Mexico, chomping on lush, high-meadow grass, helping researchers and ranchers get a handle on a disease that causes 75,000 cattle deaths each year across the West.

For years many people in the Jemez Mountains thought the disappearance of David Eley, 47, was a tragic accident, but opinions are changing after Eley's gun was found with the 'Cookie Bandit.' Eley was camping in the San Antonio Springs area in the summer of 2006 when he vanished.

New Mexico State Police said Thursday that "Cookie Bandit" Joseph Henry Burgess was able to get a revolver from the small of his back after he had been handcuffed.

This picture of the "Cookie Bandit" was caught by a camera positioned by a cabin owner to take pictures of birds The man involved in gunfire that killed a Sandoval County Sheriff's Office deputy last week has been identified as a suspect in a 37-year-old double murder.

BUYERS AND SELLERS. A SANDOVAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S SERGEANT IS HONORED BY FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

A notorious burglar in the Jemez Springs area known as the "Cookie Bandit" was the central figure in shooting incident which left the bandit and a Sandoval County Deputy dead on Thursday.

ROZANNA M. MARTINEZ Albuquerque Journal, N.M. "I'm going to catch that guy." That was the last thing Sgt.

In 2005, New Mexico Environment Department staff tested water in dozens of places on Jemez Mountain streams and found 34 new violations of state water-quality standards.