Pecos News

Action, re-action: It's a fine old physics principle stated clearly three centuries ago by Sir Isaac Newton a ' and it also has political application.

Farmers from Eastern New Mexico showed up at a city Public Utilities Committee meeting Wednesday to voice both objections and support for a privately owned pipeline that would deliver water from Fort Sumner to the City Different.

Outdated compacts between states and the federal government exist in regards to the needs of upstream and downstream water deliveries to those states through which rivers flow.

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.

Photo: Pecos Pueblo offers a story leading back thousands of years. More on this site Bud Russo For The New Mexican 10/17/2009 - 10/18/09 It's Sunday morning.

The great California Gold Rush of 1849 lured fortune seekers from all over the world, about 85,000 in that year alone.

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

Interpretive markers in Glorieta Battlefield tell the story of a Civil War battle near Pecos, N.M., that historians call "the Gettysburg of the West." IF YOU GO ... PECOS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK: Pecos, N.M.; http://www.nps.gov/peco/ or 505-757-7200. Located about 25 miles from Santa Fe; $3 entrance fee.

The annual Christmas on the Pecos has once again helped put New Mexico on the map as a must attend landmark event.

A visitor walking past the Civil War exhibit at the Pecos National Historical Park visitors center in Pecos, N.M. The park dedicated a new trail through the nearby Glorieta Battlefield earlier this year.

The Santa Fe National Forest plans to aerial ignite a prescribed burn on 850-acres in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed today if weather conditions hold.

Land managers have tried everything from burning them and ripping them out by the roots to spraying herbicide on their pink plumage.

Santa Feans may see another big plume of dark, thick smoke east of the city in the municipal watershed this afternoon.

Nearly three weeks into their search, the family of 61-year-old Mel Nadel, who disappeared in the Pecos Wilderness, is still holding out hope he'll be found alive.

Photo: Kristen Nadel, 18, left, and her mother, Edna Nadel, back, struggle with bringing their lives back to normal after Melvin Nadela TMs disappearance while on a hunting trip in the Pecos Wilderness nearly three weeks ago.

Volunteer searchers coordinated by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse will be looking this weekend again for Mel Nadel, 61, the hunter who disappeared Sept.

The family of a missing hunter isn't giving up their search, even though authorities called off their crews over the weekend.

Gov. Bill Richardson says New Mexico lived under the gun of water mandates for 20 years, but the problem was removed with the signing of the Pecos River settlement.

When Russia invaded Finland in August 1939, Paavo Karttunen was 17 years old. Already an orphan since the fifth grade, his parents died four months apart; he watched his only siblings, two brothers, march off to war.

There will be a Family Resource Institute Fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at San Jose Parish Hall, 1002 S. De Baca.