Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument

Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument - Las Cruces, New Mexico

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President Obama Designates the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument

At the Department of the Interior, President Obama gives remarks before designating the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks region as a National Monument, May 21, 2014.

Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument - Las Cruces, New Mexico Hiking Trails & Camping

The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument is located in South Central New Mexico outside the city of Las Cruces. Do you like the great outdoors? In this vast monument, you'll find something for the whole family to enjoy!

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Camping & Hiking Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks National Monument

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Climbing the Organ Needle - Organ Mountains National Monument, Las Cruces, NM

This was a great hike/climb to the summit of the Organ Needle, the highest point in the Organ Mountains just east of Las Cruces, NM. I had great views, not much trouble finding the route, and really enjoyed the challenge.

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Free Camping at Organ Mountains, Las Cruces, NM - VanLife

We stay at popular free camping spot at the base of the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument. We go for a hike and enjoy the weather. The Organ Mountains are a rugged mountain range in southern New Mexico in the Southwestern United States. Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument was declared a national monument on May 21, 2014. They lie 10 miles east of the city of Las Cruces, in Doña Ana County.

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New Signs Installed As Organ Mountains Desert Peaks Makes Moves Towards Broader Visitor Engagement

It has almost been a year since President Obama designated the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument. In the lead up to the anniversary community groups have been working on projects to promote the site. As Simon Thompson reports Economists say these projects are key to the monument generating the projected 7.4 million dollars economic activity every year.

About 50 volunteers armed with shovels, rakes and wheel barrels met up at the foot of the Organ mountains for a working day in the weekend sunshine.

Volunteers shoveled dirt, mixed concrete, and lugged rocks to the first Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument sign.

Las Cruces Bureau of Land Management district officer Bill Childress led the charge he says the national monument signs are the major first step in promoting the monument throughout the US and across the globe.

“It is beautiful and significant and extremely significant, it speaks for it’s self. Words cannot explain this beautiful iconic mountain range” Childress said.

But the monument’s value is far more than simply aesthetic. A study commissioned by the Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce projected the monument designation would generate 7.4 million dollars in economic activity every year.

Childress says there’s already been a 25 to 30 percent increase in visitors since the designation.

“We have found that when you establish areas like this that it will boost the economy more people will come and visit the community” Childress said.

Las Cruces Green Chamber President Carrie Hamblen says visitors generate revenue at hotels, local restaurants and stores.

“Our local businesses will have income coming in. For a community that is a little over powered by chain stores we want our local businesses to thrive and with a designation of a national monument that would help that Hamblen said.

Hamblen says local businesses are embracing the monument through marketing. Hamblen says there’s already an Organ Mountains cocktail and even a coffee blend.

A Center For Western Priorities report says senior citizens are three times more likely to move into Western counties with a higher percentage of protected public lands like national parks, monuments, and other conservation areas.

New Mexico State University Economist Chris Erickson says the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks Monument designation is having an impact on economic prosperity in the region. But Erickson says Las Cruces could be doing a lot more by establishing hiking and bike trails and installing historical markers. He also says there’s a need to coordinate marketing of the area and monument to tourists and to prospective residents and businesses.

“They are a completely undeveloped asset we need to start developing, we need to start developing economic. We need start developing amenities that will make this a really pleasant place that will attract people.”
Erickson said.

The BLM’s Childress says many marketing isn’t easy in a monument that’s nearly a half-million acres. The monument has everything from dinosaur fossils to ancient structures and scores of recreational opportunities.

“There is all these kinds of resources they are diamond in the roughs and we are hoping to be able to interpret those resources, in the future for the public” Childress said.

Childless says as the monument’s 1 year anniversary approaches more of those assets and features will be promoted and opened up to the public.

For KRWG- I'm Simon Thompson

Mountain Biking at Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks National Monument

Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks National Monument is home to diverse recreation opportunities including some incredible mountain biking. Within the Monument mountain bikers enjoy expansive 360 degree mountain views and excellent singletrack including the Sierra Vista Trail: a 19-mile National Recreation Trail, and the Doña Ana Trail System.

Secretary Sally Jewell Visits Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument

United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell visited Las Cruces and the Organ Mountains- Desert Peaks National Monument as part of a nationwide tour highlighting the Interior Department’s efforts during the Obama Administration.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior started her day in Las Cruces with a morning hike at the Organ Mountains- Desert Peaks National Monument listening to highlights from the area since the monument designation.

“The trail that we walked up was worked on by Youth Conservation Corps Crews from surrounding areas all the way from Northern New Mexico that came to work on this trail,” Jewell said. “You’re engaging the girl scouts with a merit badge for exploring the Organ Mountains- Desert Peaks. You’re discovering new paleontological features and archaeological features. Engaging the Isleta Del Sur Pueblo, and other Native groups and really recognizing just what a treasure lies here.”

Secretary Jewell says she is also using the trip to look at the economic benefits of protecting public lands.

“This area that we’re in now the Organ Montains- Desert Peaks National Monument,” Jewell said. “Was declared a National Monument by President Obama just two years ago. And they’ve already seen a dramatic increase in tourism, and recreation and visibility for this beautiful area. That’s helping drive the businesses here in Las Cruces. So, I’m here to meet with members of the business community, to talk with folks from BLM and the friends group and the supporting network that care so deeply about this place and is just beginning to unlock it’s secrets.”

Carrie Hamblen, President and CEO of the Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce says one way the monument is helping economic development is by increasing the number of visitors.

“Visitation to areas within the monument have increased 102%,” Hamblen said. “And that’s a fairly conservative estimate, because there aren’t counters in place in certain areas, so we’re able to poll from definite counters, areas people are signing in at books. But we can’t even count the people that don’t sign so that’s a really low estimate of how many people have come to the area and enjoyed the monument once it was designated.”

Hamblen says businesses in the community have rallied in support of the monument.

“I think it’s something really unique that we have here,” Hamblen said. “We’re people who own businesses are saying you know what this is our monument, an I’m going to help promote it. So, they’ve created products, there is a coffee blend, an OMDP coffee blend, OMDP cupcakes, OMDP cocktail. And these are examples that are being shared across the country, about how communities can go ahead and embrace this.”

Secretary Jewell says it’s great to see the community support of the monument.

“Any way you slice it, it’s been great for business for Las Cruces,” Jewell said. “But also great to say to the residents here. This is not a private playground for the people that live on the slopes of the mountain. This is public lands that are available to all people to the community and to the outside world.

New Mexicans Thank President Obama, Importance of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument

On May 23, 2014, New Mexicans celebrated President Obama's designation of the new Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in Las Cruces, New Mexico. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Senators Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich, and Jeff Bingaman (Ret.) joined monument supporters including Native American, Hispanic, and business leaders, elected officials, sportsmen, ranchers, veterans, interfaith leaders, conservationists, historians, archaeologists, and others. This video captures New Mexicans at the event thanking President Obama and reflecting on the importance of the new monument.

Produced by the New Mexico Green Chamber of Commerce, Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce, and Partnership for Responsible Business.

Organ Mountains Designation Unlocks New Land Projects To The State

The Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument places nearly 500,000 acres of land under permanent federal management.

But as Simon Thompson reports it has also opened up new land and opportunities for the state.

Today I am here to announce that I am using my executive authority to protect more of our pristine landscape by designating the organ mountains and desert peaks region a national monument

A recent study predicted the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument may generate more than $7 million a year- through increased tourism, new jobs and commercial development.

But that may only be a portion of the total impact. 80,000 of the 496,000 acres of land in the monument boundaries actually belonged to New Mexico.

Jessie Juen is the State Director of the Bureau of Land Management. He's overseeing the area's transition and says the agency is working to compensate New Mexico by offering new lands in the area.

There won't be a financial gain or loss they are all appraised lands they will have a value and that value that exchange will be a value for value exchange

But New Mexico State Land Office Commissioner Ray Powell says it is even better than a value for value exchange. The designation will continue conservation - while opening up lands that are a better fit for developing commercial projects.

This is a really big deal. One the creation of this national monument. But the second part of it is this trade is where we are trading out of the national monument to create more economic development for the entire county

The State Land Office already looks after 13 million acres of land in New Mexico. Powell says projects and public-private partnerships on state lands are supporting research and nurturing innovation and industry in New Mexico.

We've got the largest solar ray being built right now down by Deming, we have got the largest wind farm in New Mexico being built right now up by Albuquerque-1000 mega watts. We've got a bi fuels farm over by Hobbs that is using salt water from the oil from the oil and gas industry, Using the New Mexico sun and using patented algae to develop jet fuel, diesel fuel, gasoline. So we are taking waste products- turning them into very important products and avoiding the issues of a toxic waste

Powell says drawing industry to state land allows New Mexico to have a hand in projects and to position them to be environmentally sustainable from inception.

Between leasing of the land, profits from private-public partnerships and commercial development the state land office generates $800 million dollars for New Mexico every year.

And where's that money going?

Powell says it is reinvested back into New Mexico to create jobs and drive public initiatives - like the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, University research and public education.

That would not happen if we did not have these working land supply almost their entire budgets- supporting their educational programs- all of our universities including New Mexico State University and public hospitals- here in New Mexico --and our public school, an institution like Carrie Tingley Hospital- that treats every young person that suffers a severe and debilitating, orthopedic injury, a bone injury they are able to come to these hospitals and facilities- and get first class care because of the revenues that generated by these working lands- at no additional expense to our taxpayers

Powell says the state land office is still assessing the land available and how it could be used- and he said more renewable energy projects are being considered.

New Mexico Bureau of Land management Director Jessie Juen says the land exchange with the state will be a three-part process over the next few years.

Planning and identifying the viable land, evaluating environmental impact and receiving public comment.

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Trump's Attack on Our Monuments: Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks

Designated a national monument in 2014, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks is a place for cultural and geological treasures, family outings, even off-roading. Here, archaeologist Angel Peña explains why it's important to protect Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks from Trump and his administration, who are planning to weaken, shrink, or eliminate dozens of America's national monuments like this one. NRDC and Next100 have teamed up to fight back. Take action:

New Mexico's Organ Mountains Tribute

One of the most profoundly beautiful and least acclaimed mountain ranges in the United States divides New Mexico's Tularosa Basin from the Mesilla Valley. Located ten miles east of Las Cruces, New Mexico, the Organ Mountain's rugged crags thrust 8,990 feet (2,740 m) into the air and daily provide observers with spectacles ranging from stark silhouettes to rose-colored incandescence during typical New Mexico Sunsets.

This short October 2008 video captures various panoramas and peak highlights, ending with a crimson time-lapse summer sunset sequence that is standard fair in the region.

The public can hike the western side of the Organ Mountains to their ridgeline from Aguirre Springs National Recreation Area. See But, the public cannot hike the eastern side within the U.S. Armys high-security White Sands Missile Range. That is strictly off limits to the public. As always, normal wilderness mountain hiking provisions naturally apply.

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President Obama designates the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument | Pew

In May 2014, President Obama designated New Mexico's Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. Pew's U.S. Public Lands director Mike Matz discusses why these public lands are worthy of recognition and how national monument status will benefit the local community.

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Aerial View of Organ Mountains, Las Cruces, New Mexico

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Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks National Monument Video

A video describing important reasons why some of the public lands in Doña Ana County should be protected by turning them into a National Monument.