Further contamination could harm the local economy, said Stop Tererro Mine Coalition member Ralph Vigil at Wednesday’s news conference, by limiting outdoor recreation and harming agriculture.

Ralph Vigil, northern organizer for the nonprofit New Mexico Wild, said the classification will protect traditional community water uses and safeguard waterways from the degradation new uses often ...

The Upper Pecos watershed has been through a lot in recent years; it’s been “getting beat up for some time,” Pecos farmer and acequia parciante Ralph Vigil told the committee. In the 1990s ...