Albuquerque, N.M. (AP) — The Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico is where famed naturalist Aldo Leopold first hatched the idea of setting aside the nation’s untamed lands as wilderness. Nearly 85 years ago, he helped carve the world’s first designated wilderness out of the Gila. Now, conservationists want the federal government to protect […]
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