Here is your country

[Gloria in NM]

6. After a lot of work and nailbiting, our Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument

was finally created by Obama's executive order last month! Sally Jewell came out to survey the area and I was really
shocked that it was declared so quickly after her visit!

I see the Organs from my backyard...I am so relieved that a motel won't be built on their slopes! Much chatter about how our local jackass Republican rep, Steve Pearce, was doing all the could to screw the deal up. With his oil background, lots of people thought he'd be hoping for fracking rights....A huge area as been protected...ancient sites, rock drawings, dinosaur tracks, etc.

This was once the bottom of huge sea and it is so awesome to drive a very short way into the foothills and simply see this vast land and hear true silence....PRECIOUS!