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Oil and gas wells might seem unusual sites for religious pilgrims, but on January 12, three faith-motivated environmentalists set out on a 328-mile trek from Carlsbad, New Mexico, that would see them slogging on foot past fossil-fuel developments, through remote ranch lands and deep into the desert on their way to the state capitol in Santa Fe.

The trio, representing New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light (NM-IPL) sought to use their 25-day journey to connect with communities and advocate for the passage of the Clear Horizons Act (SB18), a bill that would have required a 45 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. The group is one of three dozen organizations that are part of the Clear Horizons New Mexico coalition.

Though they were unsuccessful in helping to bring SB18 over the finish line—it was ultimately defeated in the Senate on February 11, with several Democrats joining Republicans to kill it—the Rev. Clara Sims, NM-IPL’s assistant executive director, said the pilgrimage was about more than a single outcome.

“Taking an act of faith like this and even just being people of faith in general means that we believe in the power of things that aren’t totally measurable to have these currents or ripple effects that might—even years or decades down the line—plant a seed in someone else to have the courage to take an action,” said Sims, the associate minister for First Congressional United Church of Christ Albuquerque.

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A Toxic Legacy

During the first days of their journey, the group passed through southeastern New Mexico’s Permian Basin, the highest-producing oil field in the United States. In Carlsbad, a town of about 30,000 that is highly dependent on the oil and gas industry, they spoke with a man who had retired from this sector after more than 40 years.

“He is grateful for his pension, but also has friends whose health have been impacted by the toxic chemicals that go along with the industry,” NM-IPL said in their blog. “He particularly emphasized the dangers of hydrogen sulfide, which accompanies the flaring of gas.”

Pump jacks operate in a Permian Basin oilfield near Eddy County, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images
Pump jacks operate in a Permian Basin oilfield near Eddy County, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Prolonged or repeated exposure to hydrogen sulfide has been tied to weight loss, chronic cough and low blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency added that some evidence suggests that exposure may increase the risk of miscarriage. Another study tied chronic exposure to hydrogen sulfide in natural gas processing plants to a rare and potentially life-threatening blood disorder called methemoglobinemia and another rare but generally non-lethal blood condition called sulfhemoglobinemia.

Acute exposure to the gas can also lead to skin and eye irritation, which NM-IPL’s executive director Desirée Bernard suspects she experienced while walking through New Mexico’s oil and gas country.

“I started to get a stinging sensation in my eyes,” she said. “I think it was from exposure to the air.”

The burning of oil and gas is also a major contributor to climate change, and New Mexico is at particular risk for increased drought and dangerous heat waves as global temperatures continue to rise. The state is already grappling with a historic megadrought that has depleted major waterways, including the Rio Grande. 

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The group of pilgrims set out from Carlsbad on the first day of their journey. Credit: Desirée BernardThe group of pilgrims set out from Carlsbad on the first day of their journey. Credit: Desirée Bernard
The group of pilgrims set out from Carlsbad on the first day of their journey. Credit: Desirée Bernard

“A Way of Generating Goodness”

Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and the faithful of other religions have been going on pilgrimages for centuries.

“It’s an old-school thing that humans do and I can see why. It has a way of generating goodness in the world,” said Bernard, who is married to a Christian minister and was born into a Catholic family but described her own faith as a “meandering spiritual path.”

One recent example is the group of Buddhist monks who grabbed headlines as they completed a 2,300-mile Walk for Peace to Washington D.C. on February 10. NM-IPL’s marketing and communications representative Jim Ekstrand, who is based in Santa Fe and part of the United Church of Santa Fe, called this more-than-100-day pilgrimage “incredibly inspiring.” 

Religious groups have also in recent years used pilgrimages as a way to show support for environmental causes. In November 2025, the Diocese of San Diego Creation Care Ministry held a two-day, 27-mile pilgrimage with 50 walkers to the Salton Sea, a landlocked body of water in Southern California that has declined in recent years. Similar to NM-IPL’s pilgrimage, the event featured prayers and reflection on environmental challenges facing the region, including the pesticides from the Imperial Valley’s agricultural sector that have long run off into the Salton Sea. 

Buddhist monks line up during their March for Peace at the Peace Monument to greet U.S. Congress members on day 109 of their journey on Feb. 11 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty ImagesBuddhist monks line up during their March for Peace at the Peace Monument to greet U.S. Congress members on day 109 of their journey on Feb. 11 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images
Buddhist monks line up during their March for Peace at the Peace Monument to greet U.S. Congress members on day 109 of their journey on Feb. 11 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

“With the increasing heat and drought climate change is bringing, it’s evaporating all that toxicity into the atmosphere,” said Christina Bagaglio Slentz, associate director in the Office of Life Peace and Justice for the Diocese of San Diego. “So it’s affecting the people that live in the region.”

The Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino, which covers the area to the north, also organized a similar pilgrimage with about 50 participants, and the two groups—one moving north and another moving south—met up in a small community along the route.

These pilgrimages were inspired by the 2025 Jubilee and Catholic Pilgrims of Hope for Creation, an initiative that focused on the intersection of faith and environmental stewardship and celebrated the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ second encyclical, subtitled “On care for our common home,” and the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures. In all, more than 230 such pilgrimages took place across the country that fall.

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“It was pretty amazing,” Bagaglio Slentz said of her group’s journey to the Salton Sea. “I think our youngest participant was 7 and our oldest was like 86. So it was people of various ages and walks of life.”

Several environmental pilgrimages also occurred in September 2025 in the U.K., including the Three-Ports Pilgrimage in Bristol, which included a train ride to the nearby town of Portishead, 6-mile walk and bus ride back to Bristol. 

“We stopped six times to pray and sing, focusing on different forms of transport and how they impact people and the environment,” the group said in a blog post. “We also got to know one another better, and heard lots of inspiring stories about different actions some of us had taken part in.”

Almost all religions teach respect for the environment, from Buddhism, which views nature as a living system essential to human existence, to Christianity, where humans are to act as stewards of the Earth. 

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Pope Francis highlighted climate issues to the more than 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide throughout his papacy, most notably with Laudato si’.

“A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system…” he said in the 2015 papal letter. “Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.”

Meanwhile, environmental coalitions are increasingly including faith-based groups into their campaigns. According to Sims, this is a win for these movements, as religious communities can offer unique perspectives.

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“I think that people of faith and sort of spiritual grounding have a particular way in which they can sometimes bring a greater depth to some of these conversations in terms of really stepping back and maybe asking the bigger, deeper questions,” she said. For instance, “‘What are the moral implications of what is happening?’”

Praying for Change

“Moisture.” 

That was one rancher’s speedy reply after Bernard explained the New Mexico pilgrimage in support of the Clear Horizons Act and asked him what his prayer might be. She’d met him while walking along a dirt road through a rural area near Corona, a small village about 90 miles southeast of Albuquerque.

Over the last decade, drought has made it difficult to work his land, he told Bernard. On that day, the rancher, driving a big white truck and outfitted in a sturdy jacket and black cowboy hat, was hauling supplemental feed. He told Bernard that foraging is tough for the herd when the land is so parched.

Rev. Clara Sims looks down at parched land during the group’s journey across New Mexico. Credit: Desirée BernardRev. Clara Sims looks down at parched land during the group’s journey across New Mexico. Credit: Desirée Bernard
Rev. Clara Sims looks down at parched land during the group’s journey across New Mexico. Credit: Desirée Bernard

He’s not the only New Mexican hoping for a wetter future, Bernard added.

“[Water concerns] also showed up a lot in the written prayers that we received from people,” she said. During their journey, the group carried pages with about 50 such prayers that had been sent to them.

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They gave copies of those prayers to their “climate champions,” such as the SB18’s primary sponsor, Mimi Stewart (D-Albuquerque), other co-sponsors of the bill and legislators who they saw as possible “swing votes” on the Clear Horizons Act, as well as to other members of the Clear Horizons New Mexico Coalition.

Prayer was integral to the pilgrimage. One day, for instance, the group was joined by Joyce Skeet, who shared that she was compelled to pray for forgiveness for the harms that humanity has done to the Earth. The pilgrims adopted that topic for their devotions as they started their trek northward from Corona that morning.

“It was very meaningful to share in that as we walked,” said Bernard. “To share in that sense of the confessional aspect of our complicity in the harm of the world.”

As they trekked in the Corona area, they also passed by a massive wind farm, part of the SunZia Wind and Transmission Project, which will put out 3.5 gigawatts and power more than 3 million homes—primarily for California and Arizona—and be the largest renewable energy project in the Western Hemisphere when it goes online. With hundreds of wind turbines across the landscape, Ekstrand described this area as feeling like a sharp contrast to the Permian Basin.

Along the way, they also benefitted from the hospitality of local communities, sleeping in churches and with families. Other times, they camped or stayed in hotels. Early on, they shared a meal with a family who immigrated from the Oaxaca area of Mexico. And as they neared the end of their journey in late January, Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev and Shelley Mann-Lev of Santa Fe hosted them at a “pop-up, sit down Shabbat dinner” in a Quality Inn in the small town of Moriarty. They then joined Father Michael Coburn at the Church of Holy Cross in nearby Edgewood for another Shabbat circle. 

The walk wasn’t without its struggles. Ekstrand’s wife fell ill with pneumonia early on, ending up in the hospital.

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“So I had to leave on the second day to be with her,” he said. “She’s recovering very well now, thankfully. And then I was able to rejoin for the last several days.”

The pilgrims stayed in a variety of accommodations, including tents. Credit: Desirée BernardThe pilgrims stayed in a variety of accommodations, including tents. Credit: Desirée Bernard
The pilgrims stayed in a variety of accommodations, including tents. Credit: Desirée Bernard
The group grew to several dozen on their final day in Santa Fe. Credit: Desirée BernardThe group grew to several dozen on their final day in Santa Fe. Credit: Desirée Bernard
The group grew to several dozen on their final day in Santa Fe. Credit: Desirée Bernard

Sims endured physical pain during the walk, particularly in her back, but says being outside and breathing the fresh air was cathartic.

“I got to a place where I was like, ‘Wait, did I just heal my body with all the pain? Now my back feels better’” she said. “I don’t know, I just started to feel good.”

Ekstrand seconded the idea that the trek, though at times difficult, was replenishing. 

“The days I did it, even though the miles were long, for me, it felt surprisingly refreshing in a way to break the daily routine and get out on the road and do those long walks,” he said. “So physically, it didn’t feel tremendously demanding.”

The final leg of their journey was a short walk from a Santa Fe trailhead to a local church followed by a march to the Roundhouse—New Mexico’s State Capital—for Climate Solutions Day on Feb. 5. The Sierra Club-sponsored event included various environmental organizations meeting with legislators, training to lobby, attending committee hearings and coming together for a noon rally. 

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“There was a really heartening crowd as we were coming into Santa Fe,” Bernard said. “…I think it was between 70 or 80 at that last location at the little church before we went on to the Roundhouse.”

Though she was enthusiastic about the trek and echoed Sims’ belief in its potential to create ripple effects rather than specific outcomes, Bernard still expressed disappointment in the failure of the Clear Horizons Act.

“There are consistently folks who should know better who are just voting with oil and gas,” she said. “And it’s depressing, really. We need to replace those people because at this point, we don’t actually have the luxury of having state leadership that is not going to rise to the occasion with what we’re doing to our planet.”

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How Epstein lured girls to his Zorro Ranch and kept authorities away

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The women did not speak about their abuse for years because, they have said, Epstein used money and threats to keep them silent. If they told, he warned of financial, reputational or physical harm.

But eventually, some of the women did speak to law enforcement. In 2006, Farmer told an FBI agent investigating allegations against Epstein in Florida about her trip to New Mexico with Epstein and Maxwell a decade earlier. The FBI agent, who was based in Florida, wrote a report based on the interview.

The FBI continued to “develop witnesses and victims from across the United States,” according to an agency memo. That included at least one interview with someone associated with Epstein in New Mexico in early 2007.

But the information about Zorro Ranch went nowhere: After two years of investigation and plea negotiations, Alex Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed in 2008 to let Epstein plead guilty to state charges and avoid a federal case, in a deal later criticized by a Justice Department watchdog as reflecting “poor judgment.” (Acosta has said that prosecutors opted for a plea deal because they were concerned it would be difficult to secure a conviction at trial.)

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The investigation into possible New Mexico crimes ended.

In 2009, Epstein completed his Florida jail term and, as part of his plea agreement there, began the process of registering as a sex offender in the places he lived. In New Mexico, the state Department of Public Safety notified Epstein by letter that he needed to register with the local sheriff.

After he left custody in Florida, Epstein reported to New Mexico authorities, who later decided he didn’t have to register as a sex offender.Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office

But a month later, after a detective met Epstein at his ranch, the state said in a second letter that he did not have to register after all. Because Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to misconduct with a victim over the age of 16, which is the age of consent in New Mexico, authorities determined he had not committed a child sex offense that required registration, according to a later Justice Department review. Epstein also had sexual contact with a 14-year-old victim, according to a report that her mother made to police in Palm Beach, Florida, but that wasn’t included in the plea deal and so didn’t matter for the New Mexico sex offender registry.

That meant Epstein didn’t have to check in with New Mexico police and didn’t have his name placed on an online list. The Justice Department review later determined that Epstein’s lawyers “thoroughly researched” how the deal would affect Epstein’s sex offender registration in other states, but prosecutors “failed to anticipate” that Epstein would escape the sex-offender registry in New Mexico.

Epstein continued to host scientists, celebrities and tech executives at his ranch — and continued to bring at least one victim. A woman who called herself Priscilla Doe said in a lawsuit years later that Epstein took her to New Mexico repeatedly from 2007 to 2010, using wealth and threats to coerce her into having sex with him and his friends.

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Priscilla Doe said that when she met Epstein in New York, she was a poor aspiring ballet dancer in her early 20s who needed cash to pay her mother’s rent. Epstein repeatedly told her “that her opportunities were endless as long as she complied with his dictates but that he could take it all away from her if she did not,” according to her suit.

Epstein’s lease of state land shows how little scrutiny he received from New Mexico, even after he became notorious. State officials have broad discretion to decide who gets to lease public lands, but for decades they renewed Epstein’s lease of 1,200 acres without complaint, even though his stated purpose, cattle grazing, was later deemed dubious by state authorities.



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Reframing Georgia O’Keeffe’s legacy and protecting the land she loved

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A view (looking east) of Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico, on March 11, 2026.

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ABIQUIU, NM – On a recent afternoon, fluffy clouds drift past the sun, throwing light, then shadow, across distant cliffs layered in yellow, ochre and sienna.

This starkly beautiful, high desert of northern New Mexico is where the artist Georgia O’Keeffe lived and painted the abstract, color-drenched paintings of flowers, bones and landforms that brought her international acclaim as “the mother of American modernism.”

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In the 40 years since her death, the area came to be called O’Keeffe County.

Today, however, that identity is shifting – culturally and legally.

There is a move afoot, prompted by Pueblo Indians and Hispanos who’ve been on the land for centuries, to stop calling it O’Keeffe Country. Moreover, a historic new conservation plan will protect that landscape — with its colorful cliffs and buttes — forevermore.

David Evans is the CEO of Ghost Ranch, best known as the home — and inspiration — of O’Keeffe. He stands on a bluff and scans the storied valley.

Ghost Ranch CEO David Evans photographed at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico, on March 11, 2026.

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“Georgia O’Keeffe loved (this area) because of the same reasons everyone who visits loves it,” he says, “the richness of the colors of the cliffs against the sky, the way the light plays on it, the way the clouds move in. It’s incredible.”

Ghost Ranch is now a spiritual and educational retreat center just over an hour’s drive northwest of Santa Fe. The longtime owner of Ghost Ranch, Arthur Pack – a nationally prominent conservationist – donated it in 1955 to the Presbyterian Church, whose nonprofit foundation owns it today.

O’Keeffe fell in love with Ghost Ranch country when she first visited from New York in the 1930s. In an early letter to her famous photographer husband, Alfred Stieglitz, she described the landscape as “Perfectly mad-looking country, hills and cliffs and washes too crazy to imagine, all thrown up in the air by God and let tumble where they would.”

In 1940, when Ghost Ranch was still a dude ranch, she purchased an adobe house there, Casa de los Burros. She spent most of the rest of her life painting the raw beauty of her surroundings.

“There’s something in the air, it’s just different, the sky is different, the stars are different, the wind is just different,” O’Keeffe said in a mid-1970s public television documentary.

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At 88, the legendary artist, dressed in a black smock, was filmed walking through the eroded sculptural features of the badlands, her face furrowed by age, her eyes still blazing. She died in Santa Fe at the age of 98.

“As soon as I saw it,” she said, “that was my country.”

Rewriting the narrative

Artist Jason Garcia (Okuu Pin), of Santa Clara Pueblo (left), and Curator Bess Murphy, of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, photographed in the studio of Georgia O'Keeffe's home at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico on March 11, 2026.

Artist Jason Garcia (Okuu Pin), of Santa Clara Pueblo (left), and Curator Bess Murphy, of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, photographed in the studio of Georgia O’Keeffe’s home at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico on March 11, 2026.

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That played well among her legions of admirers, but not so much in northern New Mexico among the Tewa, the indigenous people that include the Pueblo Indians.

Her favorite subject was Cerro Pedernal, the flat-topped mountain that stands like a sentinel over this basin. She painted it 29 times, and had her ashes scattered on the summit. In one infamous quote, O’Keeffe said, “It’s my private mountain. It belongs to me. God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.”

Tewa artist Jason Garcia, of the Santa Clara Pueblo, chuckles at the statement. He has also painted Pedernal, which Tewa consider a sacred landmark whose native name is Tsi-Pin, flaking stone mountain.

“It’s pretty funny to hear that, to think that one person can say, ‘If I paint this enough I can have it. God told me,’” Garcia says. “But it’s just not just hers. You have Tewa people that have lived here on the landscape, as well, since time immemorial.”

Garcia is co-curator of a groundbreaking exhibition called Tewa Nangeh at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. Twelve Tewa artists respond, with their art, to O’Keeffe’s aesthetic claim to their ancestral land.

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“At the O’Keeffe Museum, for so long the story of northern New Mexico has been told only through Georgia O’Keeffe’s eyes,” says Bess Murphy, co-curator of the exhibition and art curator at the museum. “And really we were hoping to create a space in the museum where we can add complexity to that narrative.”

The museum’s official poster for the exhibition highlights that changing narrative. A sign says, “Welcome to O’Keeffe Country” and “Tewa” has been scrawled across her name. Murphy says the Tewa-and-O’Keeffe show has doubled the number of local and native visitors who visit the museum.

Jonathan Hayden, executive director of the New Mexico Land Conservancy, which works closely with Ghost Ranch, gives credit to the museum “for really forcing people to reckon with the erasure of indigenous perspectives from ‘O’Keeffe Country.’”

Protecting the land

The artist’s legacy, nevertheless, remains a huge draw for Ghost Ranch and the region. A yearly music festival is held at the ranch, called Blossoms and Bones, after her still-lifes. The ranch’s classic logo is an O’Keeffe drawing of a cow skull. And just down the road, visitors can sign up for a tour of O’Keeffe’s second home and studio in the village of Abiquiú.

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Like the museum, Ghost Ranch has also begun to re-frame its narrative.

“O’Keeffe Country is not a frame that we use,” says Evans. “This country has a very rich history and she’s an important part of it. But it’s not solely her story by any means.”

Ghost Ranch CEO David Evans photographed at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico, on March 11, 2026.

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In December, the ranch announced a historic conservation agreement that will protect this pristine emptiness in perpetuity.

In the first phase—that covers 6,000 of the ranch’s 21,000 total acres—the New Mexico Land Conservancy will pay the church foundation nearly $1 million to preserve the vista and never develop the land. Funding comes from the state’s Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund. The arrangement bans things like ranchettes, cell-phone towers and Dollar Stores, while leaving intact the main Ghost Ranch facilities—visitor’s center, trails, lodging, stables, dinosaur museum and O’Keeffe’s home.

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“This is truly a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect one of the West’s most iconic landscapes,” says Hayden. “Acreage-wise it’s not the largest. But in terms of its meaning to people going back to indigenous cultures, to (Spanish) land grant heirs, and everyone inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, it’s truly a rare opportunity.”

Evans says protecting the ranch’s 30 square miles “is one of the most important parts of Ghost Ranch’s mission.” But he adds, it’s expensive to maintain the vast property and ensure a great guest experience.

“We have over 100 buildings, 21,000 acres,” he says. “So it’s a tough business model. The revenue will really help to support our operating costs and to keep this open for future generations.”

Finding a balance or The price of popularity 

Norman Vigil with his cattle at his ranch in Canjilon, New Mexico (just north of Ghost Ranch) on March 11, 2026. Vigil leases grazing rights from Ghost Ranch, and runs his cattle on Ghost Ranch for part of the year.

Norman Vigil with his cattle at his ranch in Canjilon, New Mexico (just north of Ghost Ranch) on March 11, 2026. Vigil leases grazing rights from Ghost Ranch, and runs his cattle on Ghost Ranch for part of the year.

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It’s also cattle country.

Norman Vigil runs 25 black Angus on Ghost Ranch pastureland. On a recent afternoon, he was out checking on his mama cows. “Hey, vacas!” he called in Spanish, shaking a bucket of feed pellets.

The conservation plan continues the longstanding arrangement that lets local cattlemen use ranch pastures for winter grazing. “It allows us to maintain our culture, our historical use,” Vigil says.

Cattle on Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, New Mexico, on March 11, 2026. A number of local ranchers lease grazing rights from Ghost Ranch.

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He’s a bit jaded when it comes to the label “O’Keeffe Country.”

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While it’s been good for realtors, Airbnbs, cafes, and gift shops, Vigil says for many folks in the region, like him, all it’s done is drive up home prices. 

“There’s a lot of people making a good living because of Georgia O’Keeffe, and so can you argue on the economic side for those folks,” he says. “But for us, really the exposure hasn’t been all that great.”

For years, the nonprofit Ghost Ranch has charged film crews to use the stunning panorama as a backdrop. Production companies out here have filmed everything from Chevy truck commercials to the movie, “Oppenheimer.”

David Manazares photographed on the set of the movie Oppenheimer, located at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu NM, on March 11, 2026.

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Tewa artist Garcia knows why they want to be out here.

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“It’s funny when you think about the O’Keeffe quote …’There’s something different about New Mexico.’ She’s right. She’s not lying,” he says. “The mountains, the clouds, dusk, dawn, midnight. I mean, it’s a beautiful place. I wouldn’t trade it for anywhere else.”



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The weather is warming up and people are wanting to get out and about. What’s New in ABQ has the inside scoop on all of the fun you want to get in on. From showcases and coffee shops, to an event all about unity, there is something for everyone.

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, the Human Bean coffee shop has some holiday themed drinks for everyone to enjoy. They also are hosting a Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway on St. Patrick’s Day. Coming Memorial Day Weekend, is Juneteenth Renaissance Institute Heart of ABQ 6.6k. The community is invited to celebrate Route 66 and the International District with fun, music, resources and more. Also on St. Patrick’s Day is Botox Day at Sana Spa. Then on March 21, the Human Bean is hosting its March Into Positivity Giveaway. Other upcoming events include the Treasures of Earth Gem, Mineral Jewelry Expo at Expo New Mexico from March 20 – 22. For more info on What’s New in ABQ, click here.

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