Santa Fe New Mexican on The Green Line

Construction work on city intersections that need new safety features before Rail Runner commuter trains arrive won't begin as soon as the state Department of Transportation had planned.

While work had been aimed at starting next week, city councilors haven't reached agreement on a timeline. On Monday, City Councilor Matthew Ortiz expressed concern about traffic delays and nighttime construction noise and asked the state to provide an alternative schedule.

But officials from the city Public Wo… Continue

ST. MARIES, Idaho - She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but.

Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her alive.

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Fungus has sort of grown on Diego Martinez over the years.

Not literally, of course.

But the more the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist learns about fungus, the more fascinated he becomes with it , and with finding new uses for it, he said.

While looking at the genetic code in one kind of fungus — the cryptically named Trichoderma reesei — Martinez recently found something that could help wean the nation off its dependence on foreign oil, he said.

He discovered a sequence of genes tha… Continue

The Upper Pecos Canyon Watershed Association plans to lobby this year for the creation of a Pecos Canyon State Park.

The nonprofit organization, formed to study and restore stream quality in the Pecos River watershed, commissioned a recent study that indicates what many people already knew: Unmanaged camping and recreation in the canyon is harming riverbanks and water quality.

N.M. 63 winds through the steep-sided canyon along the Pecos River. Through the summer, thousands of people use the fe… Continue

Here are links to stories published in this weeks outdoors section of The Santa Fe New Mexican. We'll be adding new links as stories are published.

Santa Fe man is still enjoying his lonely adventure

REI joins Nalgene in halting sales of plastic bottles… Continue