That makes perfect sense to me....
The government take over by Land Management in West is a little bit scary? I don’t visit there and I have one friend in AZ, but haven’t been out there in years...does the constant setting aside of land for parks make a lot of sense to you for that area?
I think I remember that Albuquerque had a lake or big water area underneath that supplied to that city...of course that was 30 yrs ago. Hopefully, the drought we have had here isn’t happening in West?
The federal government owns half of the entire Western half of the US, including over 90% of Nevada... and they want more.
The Federal Government “owns” huge tracts of land in the west and it gains more under every Democrat president.
Most opposition is to the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) which mostly controls livestock grazing on Federal land..
I think there is a big aquafer under Alb. but don’t know much about it.