The Pecos has been caught between landowners who say they want to protect their properties and would-be recreationists.

A state district judge issued an order Thursday permanently barring landowners on the Pecos from building fences or posting ...

The action removes 2,500 acres from mining development but leaves much of the largely federally owned watershed unprotected.

when contamination from a closed mine leeched into the Pecos River, killing fish several miles from the spill, tainting water supplies and costing millions of dollars to clean up. Ralph Vigil ...

SANTA FE — New Mexico's commissioner of public lands banned mining on state land in the Upper Pecos Watershed, a move meant to pressure the federal government to follow through on similar protections ...

Mar. 3—PECOS — Advocates are worried about a federal proposal to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining for the next 20 years after the Bureau of Land Management postponed a public ...

Lawmakers on Thursday moved one step closer to calling for long-term protections for the Upper Pecos River watershed, which encompasses a sizable chunk of the Santa Fe National Forest’s Pecos ...

The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...

Conservationists hoped Biden-era mining restrictions for the upper Pecos would be extended. That seems uncertain now.