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Tag: Legislation

Interior Secretary Burgum Plans to Close or Transfer VCNP

June 17, 2025

  Early summer finds a dark cloud hanging over the Valles Caldera National Preserve and Bandelier National Monument. The Trump regime continues to push budget and staff cuts for the …

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Park Service Faces New Budget Cuts

March 10, 2024March 10, 2024

Once again, Congress is going after trivial parts of the federal budget as part of the process of averting a government shutdown. Sometimes Congress targets the National Park Service budget, …

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Government Shutdown in the Jemez

September 30, 2023

The National Park sites in the Jemez Mountains may close during a possible government shutdown starting this Sunday (October 1). A group of extreme-right congresspersons has refused to allow any …

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Valles Caldera Needs Your Comments by June 9

June 1, 2023

Every national park or preserve must have a management blueprint for its staff to follow.   Managers at the Valles Caldera National Preserve are at last creating the “General Management Plan” …

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Beautiful Written Orders Require Park Service Communications with Us!

April 14, 2023April 14, 2023

  Many New Mexicans made a big political push to have the Valles Caldera National Preserve placed under the National Park Service. We did that because the NPS has a …

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March News from the Valles Caldera

March 4, 2022

NPS Buys Jemez Springs Office Building The National Park Service now owns the Jemez Springs Headquarters building that the Valles Caldera Trust rented from the Brothers of the Paraclete, an …

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Court Rules Against Jemez Pueblo in Suit to Own VCNP

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

   The Valles Caldera National Preserve protects most of the center of the Jemez Volcano in the middle of northern New Mexico. The Preserve is surrounded by nine nearby Pueblos. …

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