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

Rio Grande Habitat Restoration

Season 2 Episode 11 | 4m 48s | Video has closed captioning.

This year, the Rio Grande is expected to keep running higher than it has in recent years. That's a stark contrast to years past. Correspondent Laura Paskus takes us to the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, and to a habitat restoration site near Socorro, where engineers are trying to turn back the clock on river management concepts as they look toward the future of water in the Southwest