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Hikers, cattleman clash on forest trail Women say man on horseback threatened to shoot unleashed dog By Anne Constable The New Mexican
A man on horseback in the mountains above Santa Fe threatened to shoot Panama Pete, a rescue dog
and canine model, who was hiking the Winsor Trail last Thursday with his owner and her friend. While hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians are mostly respectful of one another on the popular multiuse trails around Santa Fe, some unpleasant encounters do occur — and this was one of them. The incident was reported to U.S. Forest Service officials, who have
turned the case over to New Mexico State Police. Lorna Dyer, Pete’s owner, said she and Kay Fitzgerald were about halfway back up to the ridge from the meadow known as La Vega when they came around a curve on Winsor Trail and saw two cows and two calves crossing the trail. The animals were followed by a man on horseback. Pete, who was off-leash, began
Panama Pete, a 9-year-old rescue dog, angered a man on horseback in the Santa Fe National Forest last Thursday, after running toward the horse and several cattle.
barking and running toward them. The rider, who was armed, started yelling at the dog and at the women. Dyer called to her dog. “Pete came right away, and she put him on the leash,” Fitzgerald said. But the rider continued swearing at the women, repeatedly calling them vulgar names. Dyer said the rider, who had a holster on his right
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By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
The tunnel vault at Los Alamos National Laboratory was used in the late 1940s to early 1950s as the nation’s original post-World War II nuclear storage area and research facility. The top-secret tunnel, which is 230 feet long and lies a few hundred feet below Los Alamos, was opened to visitors Tuesday for a tour. Below are notes left on the walls when the facility closed in 2012. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
On THe WeB u A video tour of the “tunnel vault,” featuring commentary by Los Alamos National Laboratory’s historic facilities manager and others, is on our website, www.santa fenewmexican.com.
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tunnel and vault dug into a canyon wall in Northern New Mexico that for decades provided the federal government with a secret and secure place
to store nuclear material and conduct research during the Cold War this week became a tour stop. Los Alamos National Laboratory says the top-secret facility known as the “tunnel vault” has been declassified and is being shown on lab tours for the news media and for families of laboratory
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workers. The tours are part of the lab’s celebration of its 70th anniversary. The facility, which served as the nation’s original post-World War II nuclear stockpile storage area, was built in 1948 and 1949 in a remote
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Tropical visitor draws flurry of birders By Susan Montoya Bryan
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Music on the Hill 2013 St. John’s College’s free outdoor concert series concludes with Latin-groove band Nosotros, 6-8 p.m., outdoors at the college’s athletic field, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca. More events in Calendar, A-2
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BOSQUE DEL APACHE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
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Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, the chairman of the Legislative Finance Committee, says Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration is not spending a significant amount of money the Legislature appropriated for state employees’ salaries and that this money ought to go for pay raises. However, a spokesLuciano man for the governor ‘Lucky’ says across-the-board Varela pay increases are highly unlikely, although the administration is looking at possible “targeted raises” for those working in the public safety area. Varela raised the issue in a column in this month’s newsletter of the Legislative Finance Committee. “LFC staff estimates agencies [in fiscal year 2014] won’t spend $100 million or more of what they will get for pay and benefits,” Varela wrote. Actually, according to data from the Legislative Finance Committee, that figure is more than $138 million. “If last year is any indication, agencies are likely to shift those dollars to other expenses or return it at the end of the year,” Varela wrote. “The executive could
Obituaries Holly Dyer, Santa Fe, July 21 David John Gonzales, July 19 Jacob Patrick Kaplan, July 20
Carolina Rodriguez (Carrie), 84, Santa Fe, July 23 Dora Prestup Rothschild, 106, Santa Fe, July 22 PAge C-2
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ALBUQUERQUE — There’s a frenzy erupting in the birding world, and the Rufous-necked wood-rail is to blame. Never before has there been a recorded sighting of a Rufous-necked wood-rail in the United States, but for the last two weeks one of the birds has been right at home among the cattails at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Typically, the species is found along the coasts and in tropical
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forests in Central and South America, far from parched New Mexico. The sighting has prompted emergency plane reservations and impromptu road trips reminiscent of The Big Year, the comedy starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson that brought to life the annual competition among birders to identify the most species of birds in North America in a year’s time. The difference here is that no one expected they would get to check the
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A Rufous-necked wood-rail walks along a marsh at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro. Experts say this is the first time the tropical species has been spotted in the U.S. COURTESY JEFFREY GORDON/AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION
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