Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future

Industrializing the Chaco Landscape

Season 6 Episode 19 | 6m 49s | Video has closed captioning.

A portion of the Greater Chaco Landscape is protected within Chaco Culture National Historical Park, and the federal government has talked about protecting a ten-mile buffer around the park from more oil and gas development. But as Mike Eisenfeld with the San Juan Citizens Alliance shows us, areas outside the park and the buffer zone are becoming increasingly industrialized.