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Mission 41 · Cibola National Forest, NM

Cibola National Forest

The agency files it as “Roca Honda Mine Project”

Timing

The agency stopped taking comments on October 14. What you find still counts: it backs the formal objections from people who did comment, it goes to the lawyers on the fight, and it is the story.

The sentence we think is wrong

“which will be discharged into a non-perennial segment of Rio San Jose, in the town of Milan, New Mexico”

The agency wrote that in its own document, under Proposed Action. Nobody has been out to check it. A dated photograph either backs it up or ends it.

How you settle it

Go to where the Rio San Jose runs through Milan, New Mexico, and photograph the channel from a public road bridge or pullout. Show whether there is water flowing or a dry bed. A dated photo of the Rio San Jose channel at Milan showing either running water or a dry streambed settles whether it flows now.

The decision

Roca Honda Resources LLC has proposed developmental drilling, infrastructure development, and access road construction on Cibola National Forest lands near Jesus Mesa. These activities would support an underground uranium mine and water treatment plant proposed on adjacent state and private lands. An Environmental Impact Statement is being prepared under USDA NEPA regulations, and a draft EIS was

Read the whole thing, and write to the agency about it

How to record it so it counts

  1. 01Photograph the source and its surroundings: the wet ground, the vegetation, any pipe, trough or diversion.
  2. 02Photograph the flow with something in the frame that shows it is moving, or note that it is standing.
  3. 03Photograph any use by wildlife or stock: tracks, trampling, a trough.
  4. 04Note the date and time; springs change with a season.
  5. 05Write one paragraph. If you’ve known this spring for years, say what you’ve seen it do.
What would count
  • Water in the frame on a dated photo where the document said dry.
  • The years you’ve known it, in your own words.
All of it, with the phone settings, in the field guide
Are you going?

Say yes or no. It tells the next person whether anyone has this ground covered, and it is the only way we know a request was answered rather than just read. You can change your mind any time, and nobody follows up.

Join, then say you’re going

Nobody has answered yet

Before you go
  1. Public land only. Plenty of land inside a national forest or park boundary is privately owned, and that is not yours to walk on. A gate or a closure sign means stop. Check the rules for the specific place you are going, because they differ.
  2. Don’t touch survey stakes, flagging, equipment or anything a crew left. Photograph it; leave it.
  3. Don’t approach crews, contractors or agency staff about the project. Don’t interfere with any operation.
  4. Wildlife at a distance. No drones in wilderness or anywhere they’re prohibited. Stay off closed roads and trails.
  5. If you’re not sure, don’t. Weather, terrain, water, fire and people are your call, and yours alone.

More Than Just Parks doesn’t direct where you go or what you do. Terms.