Coalition Seeks Permanent Protections for Caja del Rio in Northern NM
The Caja del Rio area features thousands of ancient petroglyphs from the 13th to 17th centuries, and is sacred to the Pueblo people.
Andrew Black – public lands field director with the National Wildlife Federation (and associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe)- said that’s why a broad coalition has come together seeking permanent protections, tribal co-management and stewardship investments.
“It’s an area of tremendous cultural, historical, archaeological, spiritual and, of course, wildlife values,” said Black. “And it’s just really a remarkable landscape that speaks to the rich and diverse identity of not only New Mexico’s people but the people of the American Southwest.”
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