Indigenous Youth Help USFWS Restore Fish Passage on Cochiti Pueblo

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Ask a group of teenagers their idea of fun and you might get answers like hanging out with friends, dodging opponents during a game of laser tag or playing their favorite video games. But for a group of Native American youth from several of New Mexico’s pueblos, fun meant working outside on a warm, sunny day hauling tons of rock with other tribal youth, community volunteers and staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to restore fish passages along the lower Santa Fe River on Cochiti Pueblo...

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Dabovich, Melanie. "Indigenous Youth Help USFWS Restore Fish Passage on Cochiti Pueblo." Indian Country Today. December 26, 2014. Article. (https://ictnews.org/archive/indigenous-youth-help-usfws-restore-fish-passage-on-cochiti-pueblo, accessed July 25, 2023)

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