Project Spotlights

A team of archaeologists from SWCA’s Albuquerque office teamed up with geophysics surveyors to map Piedras Marcadas Pueblo in northwest Albuquerque. The location represents one of the first major battles between the 1540-1542 Spanish expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and Native Americans in New Mexico.

HELENDALE, CALIF. - A rare, federally threatened western yellow-billed cuckoo and two pairs of federally endangered least Bell’s vireo have been identified on a Mojave River property recently purchased by the Mojave Desert Land Trust. These sightings, along with other special status birds and new range extension records, underscore the property’s future role as a haven for imperiled Mojave Desert species.

As many people in the offshore wind industry are aware, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Vineyard Wind Project in June 2020. BOEM determined that the SEIS was necessary, primarily to analyze an expanded cumulative activities scenario not considered in the Vineyard Wind Draft EIS released in December 2018.