People get all excited about snow in New Mexico and think the problem is solved. Not so. It is so very dry here in Albuquerque. Many trees and other vegetation continue to die here. You can’t plant trees and surround them with nothing but rock! The heat kills! Look at the U.S. Drought Monitor and see how bad it is in eastern New Mexico, into Texas and up into Colorado! Conditions have improved in California and Arizona. This self-proclaimed ‘master gardener’ is forecasting a hot dry summer in the Albuquerque area. I am preparing my trees and all vegetation for a drought. U.S. Drought Monitor
The following is a Press Release from the U.S. Interior Department:
BOULDER CITY, Nev. — To address the continued potential for low run-off conditions and unprecedented water shortages in the Colorado River Basin, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) today released a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to potentially revise the current interim operating guidelines for the near-term operation of Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams. Today’s release comes on the heels of historic investments the Biden-Harris administration announced last week as part of an all-of-government effort to make the Colorado River Basin and all the communities that rely on it more resilient to climate change and the ongoing drought in the West. More Here
CNN: The Colorado River provides water and electricity to more than 40 million people in seven states: Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California. Decades of overuse, combined with years of drought worsened by the climate crisis.
