This week on New Mexico in Focus, NMPBS celebrates five years of “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future.” This local series explores the state’s rivers and landscapes with an eye toward understanding issues like climate change, habitat restoration, community farming, wildfire management, traditional knowledge, and more.
New Mexico in Focus airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) Friday, Aug. 5 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 7 at 7 a.m., and streaming on the PBS video app.
NMiF Segments
Correspondent - all stories
Laura Paskus
Rio Grande’s Dire Future
Guests
Gary Esslinger, Manager, Elephant Butte Irrigation District
Dagmar Llewellyn, Hydrologist, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Short-term Weather Impacts of Climate Change
Guest
Jonathan Overpeck, University of Michigan School for Environmental Sustainability
Santa Ana Pueblo Restoration
Guests
Lawrence A. Montoya, Governor, Pueblo of Santa Ana
Ruben Lujan, Supervisor, Juniper Thinning Crew
Glenn Harper, Range & Wildlife Division Manager, Pueblo of Santa Ana
Together for Brothers
Guests
Christopher Ramirez, Executive Director, Together for Brothers
David Grubbs Jr., Together for Brothers
Alejandro Villezcas, Together for Brothers
UNM Students Rally for Divestment
Guests
Emily Phan, UNM Student
Paula Noriega, UNM Student
Raven Alcott, UNM Student, Pueblo of San Ildefonso
Sophia Jenkins Nieto, UNM LEAF (Leaders for Environmental Action and Foresight)
Rivers Through Pueblo Feminist Lens
Guest
Julia Bernal, Pueblo Action Alliance
Climate Change and Faith
Guest
Larry Rasmussen, Professor Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary
Coping with a Changing Planet
Guest
Sarah Jaquette Ray, Professor, Cal Poly Humboldt
Project Feeding the Hood
Guests
Lorenzo Candelaria, South Valley Farmer, Cornelio Candelaria Organics
Travis McKenzie, Project Feed the Hood Co-founder
Oscar Bojorquez, Project Feed the Hood Student Intern
Kevin Ortiz, Project Feed the Hood Student Intern
Stefanie Olivas, Southwest Organizing Project Food Corps Service Member
Luzero Velasquez, Southwest Organizing Project Youth Intern
Bringing Levity to Water Education
Guest
Endion Schichtel, ringleader, Conservation Carnival
New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people that are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues, and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."
Senior Producer of New Mexico in Focus is Lou DiVizio with Kathy Wimmer, co-producer. NM PBS Public Affairs Executive Producer is Kevin McDonald.
Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You. Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund.
Funding for Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present & Future, is provided in part by the Neeper Natural History Programming Fund for KNME-TV.
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