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[Alfonso Chacon] had hired [Luis Torres] partly because Luis shares his deep, multigenerational ties to the people and land of northern New Mexico. But he also appreciated Luis' ability to find his way through the often-confusing world of land-management agencies, grant-making and Anglo environmentalists. On my previous visit, Luis and I visited foundations in Santa Fe and then stopped at the office of the Forest Guardians, a group that often uses lawsuits and appeals to stop logging and grazing on public land. There, Luis carried on an in-depth conversation about ecology that ended with him inviting the executive director to come up North to meet some of his friends and walk the land.
"I quickly discovered that erosion was a secondary problem," he recalls. "The community's real challenge was, 'What the hell do we do now that the timber mill is closed?'"See the full content of this document
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Editor's Note Life in the Transition Zone
The last time I knocked on Luis Torres' front door in San Pedro, N.M., he was inside on the phone, talking and joking in a rapid-fire combination of Spanish and Englis...
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