11 April 2022
AXIOS: The Push for a New National Monument in West Texas
Advocates want the Biden administration to declare 7,000 acres outside El Paso, Texas, a national monument to give Mexican Americans and others in the area needed public space for hiking and other outdoor activities.
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11 April 2022
EL PASO TIMES: Escobar Calls on Biden to Protect Castner Range, says El Paso has Been 'Overlooked' in Environmental Matters
El Paso residents have called for the protection of Castner Range for more than 50 years. Now, advocates see the Biden administration as their window of opportunity to preserve the land in perpetuity.
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06 April 2022
Ximena Diaz-Velasco: MANO Intern Prepares for Career in Landscape Architecture
Amid the pandemic, Ximena Diaz-Velasco partnered with local artists and a group of friends to create a mutual aid fund to support excluded workers including undocumented and immigrant communities ineligible to receive aid under the…
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01 April 2022
New Beginnings
Hello everyone! My name is Jackie and I just wrapped up my first month as the new Projects and Communications Fellow for the Partnership Wild & Scenic Rivers (PWSR) based in Springfield, MA! Prior to…
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31 March 2022
California's Gold: Santa Monica Mountains
Welcome back, avid MANO blog readers; it’s great to see you! Unfortunately, the Omicron variant and the holiday season left me little to write about during the past four months. Thankfully, March has been fantastic…
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30 March 2022
Big Night, Little Friends: The Great Salamander Crossing
While Amherst, Massachusetts is most known for its abundance of colleges and the more than twenty thousand undergraduate students that call it home, the outskirts are quiet and quaint. Driving around, it feels like your…
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