Lyla Johnston reads her poem, "Hozhó." Filmed and edited by Shara Esbenshade.

 


V.B. Price talks with Richard Barish, the Bosque Issues chair for the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter, about how Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry's Rio Grande Vision plan will effect the Bosque.


This week on New Mexico in Focus, a look at the Bosque brouhaha. Proposed plans by the city of Albuquerque to add trails and other projects in the state park have drawn the ire of some environmentalists and residents who say it's too much for a unique wild place within city boundaries.

A quick video featuring the Bosque in Albuquerque NM along the Rio Grande River.  Music by Coldplay (Mylo Xyloto, M.M.I.X. and the instrumental form of Every Teardrop is a Waterfall)

Fall is the best time to be in New Mexico. By early October the weather has usually cooled off, the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is in full swing, and the trees in the Rio Grande River Bosque are golden.