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New Mexico agency adopts rules for conservation work, wait begins for funding
Source: CB Online, by Susan Montoya Bryan
Take any highway in any direction out of New Mexico's largest city. Beyond the green city limit signs are acres of agricultural fields, sweeping expanses of high desert and eventually ponderosa forests and mountain grasslands. August 09, 2010 New Mexico is rural, but that doesn't mean its open spaces aren't being threatened by ranchette subdivisions or other types of development, said Scott Wilber, executive director of the New Mexico Land Conservancy. "New Mexico is losing something on the order of 50,000 acres of rural land each year to development and New Mexico is now ranked as one of the fastest growing
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