This interactive workshop had a panel of three former members of the 2022 State Engineer’s Water Policy and Infrastructure Task Force, Phil King, Ladona Clayton, and Norm Gaume. The panelists are working together currently as NM Water Ambassadors. The Water Ambassadors joint purpose is to advocate for all the water task force recommendations. The panelists each presented their highest priorities for water funding and policy, and why. The joint funding requests to the 2024 Legislature of Dr. Ladona Clayton, Executive Director, Ogallala Land and Water Conservancy, and Norm Gaume, P.E. (ret), President, Water Advocates, are available here.
James and Joyce Skeet embraced water scarcity directly by establishing Spirit Farm, their working farm in Vanderwagen, south of Gallup, in the high desert of the Navajo reservation with no water well on their farm. Their vision of “healing the soil, healing the soul” is fully realized as their working experiential farm draws people from all […]