Sacramento News

The Lincoln National Forest continues its annual tradition of offering this holiday season, the opportunity to choose and cut down a Christmas Tree.

The Lincoln National Forest continues its annual tradition of offering people the opportunity to choose and cut down a Christmas tree.

Bill Kitchens uses a brush to wipe some snow off the hood of his sport utility vehicle while parked at the Cloudcroft post office Thursday morning.

I read a column written by Jay Miller in Friday's edition of the Alamogordo Daily News.

Smokey Bear district vehicles will be washed with harvested water. The tank has a capacity of 5,000 gallons and the water will also be used for landscaping.

The Lincoln National Forest Sacramento Ranger District will conduct a prescribed burn in the area of Salado Canyon about three miles north of High Rolls during the week of Oct.

Children's author/songwriter Rooster Morris reads a passage from his book "Axle Galench: The Gate of No Return" to Oregon Elementary School students during an assembly Thursday afternoon in the school's cafeteria.

Orpha Wingfield, who will reach her 100th birthday Oct. 9, looks over an old photo of the students attending the Red Brick Schoolhouse in Tularosa.

The Otero County Commission adopted a hazard mitigation plan during a final public hearing Thursday's at its regular meeting.

IN ADDITION SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECASTED FOR THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALLS LIKELY.

The New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo opens the 2009 White Sands Star Party X, with viewing at nearly 9,000 feet altitude in the historic Sacramento Mountains.

In July 1968, I was a Vietnam-era veteran traveling from Louisiana to my next assignment at Sacramento's McClellan Air Force Base.

JoeBob Shields, his father-in-law Spud Jones and Butch Haupt look through the debris left at Haupt's home after the May 6 Timberon fire.

JoeBob Shields, his father-in-law Spud Jones and Butch Haupt look through the debris left at Haupt's home after the May 6 Timberon fire.

Loopers threatening trees in Lincoln National Forest hang from a tree April 6, 2007.

JoeBob Shields, his father-in-law Spud Jones and Butch Haupt look through the debris left at Haupt's home after the May 6 Timberon fire.

A detailed review of the record by a U.S. Forest Service Appeal Review Team affirmed an April decision by Lincoln Nat-ional Forest Supervisor Jacqueline Buchanan for the Sacramento Mountains Defoliation Project.

The U.S. Highway 82 safety corridor winds along the western face of the Sacramento Mountains, taking people through a breathtaking 4,000-foot elevation change from a high desert terrain to a heavily forested mountain setting along the 16-mile stretch from Alamogordo to Cloudcroft.

The U.S. Highway 82 safety corridor winds along the western face of the Sacramento Mountains, taking people through a breathtaking 4,000-foot elevation change from a high desert terrain to a heavily forested mountain setting along the 16-mile stretch from Alamogordo to Cloudcroft.

Donna Owens, middle, and Katherine Sanchez Meador, right, discuss the Jim Lewis Project proposal Tuesday with members of various environmental organizations at the Sacramento Ranger District in Cloudcroft.