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Coco la Boca

Less horsepower, more horses.

Interests: southwest history, folklore, politics, community places

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Spoiling Junior

At the Audubon Water, Birds and Conservation Summit on June 15th, participants heard about the Western Rivers Action Network and their efforts to address river health. Insightful presentations by panelists got people thinking. There will be a similar workshop in... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at Cocoposts

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Boat Ramps and Prairie Chickens

The New Mexico legislature's interim Water and Natural Resources Committee met in Santa Fe recently. The key presentations of dire drought news and water administration "hot spots" were by the State Engineer and the Interstate Stream Commission Chair. State Engineer... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Cocoposts

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More Old Adobe Walls

Pueblo ruins and public works don't go together. A Tiwa* Pueblo, one of at least a dozen that existed when Coronado arrived in 1540, sat where Alameda Elementary School is today. The County trenched sewer lines throughout the valley without... Continue reading

Posted Jun 9, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Dragging Boulders Down Old Alameda Road

Father Troy borrowed some chains from my uncle, my mother's brother, to go get rocks for the foundation of the church, rocks from a place they called La Piedra del Rayo, beyond Edith. He dug those rocks with a team... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Butchery of Equines in History

What started the 1540 Tiguex War in what is now the Albuquerque area was what ended the Battle of Glorieta during the Civil War - butchery of innocent equines. At Glorieta Union soldiers snuck to Confederate supply wagons and killed... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Events surrounding Coronado's first contact with the Tiguex people in what's now the Albuquerque area are among the most dramatic in North American history. Clay Mathers, expert in all things Spanish Colonial Archaeology, thinks so and this amateur is inclined... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Kuaua Painted Kiva

Edgar Lee Hewitt led the first excavations at what is now Coronado Monument in the summer of 1934. In trenching the following year they discovered the painted kiva. Hewitt originally wanted the entire site exposed for visitors to see and... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Cocoposts

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The pueblo called Puaray was large at the time of Coronado's 1540 entrada. It was in the northern portion of a collection of at least a dozen villages in and along the Rio Grande in the Albuquerque area. With the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Boy that was a different place. Everyone can see...

Boy that was a different place. Everyone can see the current photo of this place at present by zooming in on north Albuquerque from current imagery. 1. The MAGIC map room really is just that. 2. Shocking how much dirt... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Cocoposts

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When I moved to the valley...

When I moved to the valley... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Lessons from the 2013 #nmleg

The capitol building itself is a wondrous place. This year again I found myself walking round and round looking for a committee room that had disappeared. A friend remarked it would be a bad place for a bad acid trip.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Coyote in the Schoolyard - Oil and Gas

The metaphor of the fox in the hen house is overused. Self-policing by the oil and gas industry is more like a coyote in the school yard. He pays for the place. He can go where he wants and do... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Senator Smith's Pipe Dream

Senator Wirth has said there are no silver bullets for the water problem. But Senator Smith has a silver pipeline in mind. He's said he’s just sending a message with his capital bill to pipe the Gila River to Las... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Fine Fine New Mexico - HB286

The Texas Legislature is considering raising their penalties for oil and gas violations from $10,000 per day to $200,000. New Mexico's HB286 would raise the daily maximum penalty from $1000 to $10,000. I dislike Texas comparisons as much as the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Can’t Buy It Back - Water Update

I still don’t get how you can buy your way out of drought. Seems like that’s what a couple of bills are about. SB440 is for $120 million for the lower Rio Grande and SB462 would give the Carlsbad Irrigation... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Water Right - Land Grant Parallel

Water rights remind me of land grants in that similar frantic profiteering kind of way. The legal maneuvering and gamesmanship over land in 19th century New Mexico is legendary. Multiple deals over many years gradually and nearly invisibly severed the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Cranes on Weed Ranch this morning.

Cranes on Weed Ranch this morning. Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Irrational Fullness of Life

The irrational fullness of life has taught me never to discard anything, even if it goes against all our theories (so short-lived at best) or otherwise admits of no immediate explanation. It is disquieting and one is not certain whether... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Roundhouse of Cards

Damn it. I just love pecans. Surface water users and the river itself, are the first to get screwed in a drought. Shortfalls are already hitting farmers and the river ecosystem on the lower Rio Grande. They’ve been making up... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Salt on a Water Worm

Water law complexity has been likened to multiple cans of worms. Water right transfers – especially of groundwater rights – seem to be at the tangled center of the worm pile. Water wary opponents claim that HB19 (SB188) “Status of... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Cocoposts

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The Smell of Wet Dirt

The image of New Mexico water I used to conjure was of my father irrigating the pasture, knee-deep in the thick muddy stuff from a lateral ditch in Alameda. Today I picture lawyers in dark suits with tidy hair. I... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Pipe Dreams - New Mexico Water Transfers at the Roundhouse

Supporters say HB19 just clarifies how leasing water constitutes a ‘beneficial use.’ Water owner at point A leases a groundwater right to someone at point B. The water can’t be used at point B so instead of forfeiture (which the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Moving Water Uphill to Money

Cross-posted en El Grito New Mexico’s farmers, ranchers and housing subdividers have probably been the first to understand what’s at stake with water. They have skin in the game. They’re represented at the Roundhouse. So are the water speculators, those... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Dry and Desperate - New Mexico Drought

Cross posted in El Grito It’s bad and we’re all lawyered up. That’s a good tweet-length description of the State Engineer’s information about water given to a joint hearing of Senate Conservation, Judiciary and Finance committees on January 24th. The... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2013 at Cocoposts

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Comedy Central on The Crazy Bill

Reaction to an outlandish abortion bill in the New Mexico Legislature, House Bill 206 from Comedy Central: Listen up, Land of Enchantment. First you infect our country with a bunch of New Age-y here's-where-the-aliens-put-the-probe energy crystal people. Then you and... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2013 at Cocoposts

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