New Mexico rivers rage, fields dry after slow federal fire aid

[ASFN Admin]

Rivers are roaring in northern New Mexico after a big snowpack. Sanchez has labored in snow, mud and ice to clear centuries-old irrigation ditches of fallen trees and debris left in the wake of the state’s worst-ever wildfire, which was started by the federal government in what was supposed to have been a controlled burn. The problem is blocking water flowing from a 12,000-foot (3,660-meter) Sangre de Cristo mountain peak into the Mora Valley through earthen channels known as acequias.

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