From Jemez Thunder, October 01, 1997 U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) introduced legislation on Sept. 24 that would authorize the federal government to purchase the 95,000 acre Baca Location No. 1 northeast of Jemez Springs. The nearly square parcel of land – almost 100 square miles in area – is … More Baca Ranch Proposed For Federal Purchase
Baca Ranch Proposed For Federal Purchase
Historic CCC Camp was in Paliza
From Jemez Thunder, September 15, 1996 In March of 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of many social programs to provide unemployment relief during the Great Depression and to develop rural areas of the United States. The aerial photo above shows a CCC … More Historic CCC Camp was in Paliza
Arrests Stop Mine Protest
By Ben Neary And Donna Jones, Journal Staff Writer, transcribed from Albuquerque Journal, April 13, 1989 Police arrested three environmental protesters who chained themselves to heavy equipment Tuesday to stop work on a new pumice mine on federal land in the Jemez Mountains about 15 miles west of Los Alamos. … More Arrests Stop Mine Protest
Journey to the Center of the Earth
From Albuquerque Journal, October 03, 1988 Bore Hole Offers Peek at History, Potential of Core By Byron Spice, Journal Science Writer Christmas comes several times a day along the rim of the valley Caldera in the Jemez Mountains. For geologists involved in boring a hole deep into the ancient, collapsed … More Journey to the Center of the Earth
Fenton Hill Drilling
From Los Alamos Mini Review, January 01, 1982 Fenton Hill during drilling of well EE-3. This 20-acre site in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico contains both the pioneering Hot Dry Rock Research (Phase I) System and the follow on Engineering (Phase II) System. The Research … More Fenton Hill Drilling