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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Looking Back on 2022’s Fires, Floods, & Drought
Description: This week on New Mexico in Focus, we consider the lessons that drought, fire, and flood taught us in 2022.
Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus sits down with New Mexico State Forestry’s Collin Haffey and Staci Timmons with the New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources to talk about fire, post-fire flooding, and also the state’s water challenges. And University of Arizona Professor Andrew Curley discusses what’s missing from the narrative of climate crisis when we ignore the experience of Indigenous people.
NMPBS Chief Engineer Jason Quinn explains the damage done to a key...