Deb Haaland, who is now interior secretary, sponsored the bill. New Mexico’s congressional delegation pursued removing the Buffalo Tract from gravel mining in 2019. ![]() ![]() Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján have co-sponsored the bill in the Senate. Teresa Leger Fernández and supported by two congressmen from California. Melanie Stansbury, is co-sponsored by Rep. The Buffalo Tract and the Crest of Montezuma, both included in the bill, are ancestral lands of the Pueblo of Santa Ana and the Pueblo of San Felipe. The Buffalo Tract Protection Act (SB 180) seeks to withdraw 4,200 acres of Bureau of Land Management land near Placitas, New Mexico from all forms of mineral development, particularly gravel mining. ![]() ![]() With environmental awareness heightened by climate change, hopefully, the second time will be the charm for 4,200 acres of land sacred to New Mexico’s pueblos.
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