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Culture Clash: Environmental Politics in New Mexico Forest Communities, 1970-2000

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The Culture Clash story begins in the 1970s in the village of Placitas, New Mexico on the north end of the Sandia Mountains, where creator Kay Matthews built a house and started a circle of relatives even as involved in disputes with the Forest Service over forest management and with real estate developers bent on gentrification. It then moves to El Valle, a land grant village of 20 families on the base of the Pecos Wilderness, where she and her circle of relatives moved in the early 1990s in search of a more rural life. Here, all through the remainder of that decade and into the 2000s, the small villages of el norte were engaged in battles on a lot of fronts: protecting the integrity of traditional acequias; guaranteeing the rights of community-based foresters and ranchers to get entry to public lands; addressing the long standing grievances of the loss of land grants; and maintaining the rural nature of communities through appropriate economic development. As a journalist documenting these struggles, and as a norteno living la lucha, Matthews weaves together a personal narrative and political analysis of a complex and dynamic rural New Mexico.

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