Secretary Haaland Initiates Two-Year Protection of Pecos River Watershed from Mining Claims
December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release:
SANTA FE, N.M. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today initiated a two-year segregation period to temporarily withdraw approximately 165,000 acres of public lands in the Upper Pecos watershed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from new mining claims and the issuance of new federal mineral leases, subject to valid existing rights.
The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service . . .
SANTA FE, N.M. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today initiated a two-year segregation period to temporarily withdraw approximately 165,000 acres of public lands in the Upper Pecos watershed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from new mining claims and the issuance of new federal mineral leases, subject to valid existing rights.
The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service . . .