The Pecos has been caught between landowners who say they want to protect their properties and would-be recreationists.

The action removes 2,500 acres from mining development but leaves much of the largely federally owned watershed unprotected.

Mar. 3—PECOS — Advocates are worried about a federal proposal to protect the Upper Pecos Watershed from mining for the next 20 years after the Bureau of Land Management postponed a public ...

The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...

After a buzzer beater move to protect the Upper Pecos watershed in the last days of the Biden administration, some advocates are wary a new president means mining may be welcomed back into the area.