The Biden administration has moved to temporarily protect thousands of acres of public land along the Pecos River in New Mexico. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has initiated a two-year ...

An undated photo of angler fishing in the Pecos River. The federal government issued a temporary ban of all new mining ... U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Halaand paused new mining claims or leases ...

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 ...