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ask.heather@mail.house.gov
In Washington DC 442 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 202-225-6316 Phone 202-225-4975 Fax |
In Albuquerque 20 First Plaza NW Suite 603 Albuquerque, NM 87102 505-346-6781 Phone 505-346-6723 Fax | |
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Congresswoman Heather Wilson, First Congressional District of New Mexico
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Preserving the Ojito Wilderness |
July 26, 2004 |
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Dear Friends,
Governor Peter Pino of Zia Pueblo had been the tribal administrator at Zia since 1977 before becoming Governor. He is a wonderful storyteller and an engaging man – the kind of person you could listen to for hours over a good meal or a cup of coffee and walk away smiling.
On Tuesday, he worked his magic on the House Resources Committee as he explained the importance of the Ojito Wilderness Act.
Tom Udall and I are trying to get a bill passed that would allow Zia Pueblo to purchase some BLM land that would connect the two pieces of its Pueblo and would make the Ojito Wilderness Study Area into wilderness, as Manuel Lujan recommended to the Congress over a decade ago.
The Ojito is about 30 minutes from Albuquerque up 44 toward Farmington. It`s a ruggedly beautiful area that, among other things, is where they found the Siesmosaurus that will soon be on display at the Natural History Museum.
The bill has broad and deep support. Both Bernalillo and Sandoval County support it. Adjoining private landholders and grazing permittees support it as does the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. State Land Commissioner Pat Lyons supports it. So does Governor Richardson and the All Indian Pueblo Council. Senators Bingaman and Domenici are the sponsors of a parallel bill in the Senate.
The local BLM office was involved in drafting the bill. But, as sometimes happens when someone`s boss three levels up finally puts an oar in the water, the Interior Department testified that they want some changes. Some of their ideas probably can be worked out by the committee. Others -- like their desire to sort out exactly what their "trust" responsibility means -- are far too much weight for a simple land transfer bill to carry.
There are four or five good weeks left in this Congress before we are scheduled to adjourn and I`d like to get the Ojito bill passed in the House.
That would give Governor Pino another story to tell.
Wish you were here,
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