I love living in a town with a ditch bearing the name of co-workers. I love living in a town with a ditch that’s been continuously, tenuously irrigating this land since the 1700s. I love dodging traffic by turning down a “Dead End” street, knowing that only means cars, that bikes can pop out on …
The 1928 report they call “Burkholder’s Bible” – more formally “A Plan For Flood Control, Drainage and Irrigation of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Project” – must be treated as one of modern Albuquerque’s founding texts. Like any such text, it rewards careful reading. Also in the manner of such texts, the more you read …
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In the early 20th century, before Aldo Leopold became Aldo Leopold, the young forester lived on what was then the edge of Albuquerque’s expanding urban fringe. 135 14th St. SW SE sits today as a fine example of early 20th century “bungalows” that you might find in many western American cities. But when Leopold lived …