Rivers are roaring in northern New Mexico after a big snowpack. But sacred pastures Jimmy Sanchez's family has irrigated for seven generations are dry.
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.
Over a year after two botched U.S. Forest Service prescribed burns started the largest fire of 2022 in the contiguous United States, help has yet to arrive. At stake is the survival of an Indo-Hispano farming, logging and ranching culture rooted in a water system that evolved in the Middle East and North Africa before Spanish colonists brought acequias to the Southwest in the 1600s.say the agency is equipped to deal with coastal flooding, not the West's climate-driven wildfires.
Garcia, executive director of the New Mexico Acequia Association, said it has taken time for FEMA to understand the ditches, overseen by a form of democratic governance older than the United States that are political subdivisions of the state and eligible for aid.
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