In New Mexico, a river runs through ‘the middle of a hellscape’

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By Jerry Redfern, Capital and MainOct 11, 2026, 9:00 am325 ptsTop
It’s an early May afternoon, and Charlie Barrett has parked his pickup in a pullout along a county road a few hundred feet from the Black River in southern New Mexico, just a mile from where it empties into the Pecos River. He has stopped to set up a video camera that detects heat and gasses invisible to…

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