EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A bear, who is not afraid of humans, has been harassing visitors to part of New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness during a series of close encounters of the “bear kind.” The Gila ...

Forest Service public information officers pictured during the 2012 Whitewater-Baldy Fire in the Gila National Forest. A 900-acre fire known as the Iron Fire erupted Sunday in the Whitewater-Baldy ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a gem of the southwestern United States and southwest New Mexico. June of 2024 marks 100 years since the Gila Wilderness became the very first federally designated ...

The Harwood Museum of Art will screen “Journey Down the Gila,” the 2019 film that tells the story of the Gila River and three ...

ALBUQUERQUE— A federal judge today upheld efforts by the U.S. Forest Service to remove feral cattle from the Gila Wilderness, America’s first designated wilderness and one of the Southwest’s largest ...

In 1924, forester Aldo Leopold convinced his superiors in the regional office of the U.S. Forest Service to set aside thousands of acres in the Gila National Forest in southwest New Mexico as ...

ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL RUN FOR MAYOR. THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE IN SILVER CITY, LETTING HIKERS AND CAMPERS KNOW OF SEVERAL REPORTS OF A HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE BEAR IN THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST. THE BEAR HAS ...

It is 100 years since the US government created the world's first protected wilderness, at the prompting of a visionary conservationist, Aldo Leopold. Encompassing some 1,190 square miles of forested ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a motion to dismiss a New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association lawsuit challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s removal of illegal feral ...