<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Samuel N. Gilbert</title><description>Independent journalism on immigration, border communities, climate change, Indigenous foodways, and international conflict. Reporting from New Mexico.</description><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Trump’s latest border wall plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trumps-latest-border-wall-plans-to-slice-through-big-bend-national-park-our-lives-are-being-upended/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trumps-latest-border-wall-plans-to-slice-through-big-bend-national-park-our-lives-are-being-upended/</guid><description>The rural Texas region, long spared, is being fast-tracked for the border wall amid bipartisan opposition</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:13:37 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Technology Turns Farming Into a Career Young Workers Like</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/1823-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/1823-2/</guid><description>Technology turns farming into a career young workers like</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:16:29 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>How New Mexico Grows Its Beer</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/how-new-mexico-grows-its-beer/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/how-new-mexico-grows-its-beer/</guid><description>A historic Santa Fe farm helps New Mexico brewers tap into the local terroir</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:35:15 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — New Mexico Magazine</author></item><item><title>Geothermal greenhouses can cut CO2 emissions and grow tomatoes all year</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/geothermal-greenhouses-can-cut-co2-emissions-and-grow-tomatoes-all-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/geothermal-greenhouses-can-cut-co2-emissions-and-grow-tomatoes-all-year/</guid><description>At these Colorado greenhouses, naturally hot water from an underground reservoir is being used to maintain optimal growing temperatures even through frigid months</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:43:34 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>Trump’s new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trumps-new-border-wall-will-threaten-wildlife-in-an-area-where-few-people-pass/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trumps-new-border-wall-will-threaten-wildlife-in-an-area-where-few-people-pass/</guid><description>The San Rafael valley in Arizona is home to bears, mountain lions and wolves – now their movement will be restricted</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 16:31:52 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Big Tech couldn’t fix food insecurity. These small vertical farms might.</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/big-tech-couldnt-fix-food-insecurity-these-small-vertical-farms-might/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/big-tech-couldnt-fix-food-insecurity-these-small-vertical-farms-might/</guid><description>Empty downtowns and rural food deserts welcome small indoor farms to revive urban areas and solve food insecurity</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 16:14:51 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>Could This Arizona Ranch Be a Model for Southwest Farmers?</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/could-this-arizona-ranch-be-a-model-for-southwest-farmers/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/could-this-arizona-ranch-be-a-model-for-southwest-farmers/</guid><description>Oatman Flats has undergone a dramatic transformation, becoming the Southwest’s first Regenerative Organic Certified farm and a potential source of ideas for weathering climate change.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 16:23:13 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Civil Eats</author></item><item><title>An Ancient Irrigation System Could Help Farmers Manage Water</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/an-ancient-irrigation-system-could-help-farmers-manage-water/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/an-ancient-irrigation-system-could-help-farmers-manage-water/</guid><description>The arid Southwest has a proven model, the acequia, for water use that is local, democratic, and resilient to heat and drought</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:31:05 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Civil Eats</author></item><item><title>Under a Texas sun, agrivoltaics offer farmers a new way to make money</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/under-a-texas-sun-agrivoltaics-offer-farmers-a-new-way-to-make-money/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/under-a-texas-sun-agrivoltaics-offer-farmers-a-new-way-to-make-money/</guid><description>Solar grazing helps farmers feed their flocks while the expanding solar industry provides more clean energy to the grid.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>No ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb’s fallout</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/no-oppenheimer-fanfare-for-those-caught-in-first-atomic-bombs-fallout/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/no-oppenheimer-fanfare-for-those-caught-in-first-atomic-bombs-fallout/</guid><description>CommentTULAROSA, N.M. — A strong rumble woke 13-year-old Lucy Benavidez Garwood in the darkness,shaking the three-room adobe house where she and her family lived and rattling dishes in the kitchen cupboard.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>The US government has neglected Native agriculture systems, so Indigenous communities are organizing their own food hubs</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/the-us-government-has-neglected-native-agriculture-systems-so-indigenous-communities-are-organizing-their-own-food-hubs/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/the-us-government-has-neglected-native-agriculture-systems-so-indigenous-communities-are-organizing-their-own-food-hubs/</guid><description>On the Hopi reservation in the high desert of northern Arizona, construction is underway. A dilapidated auto garage is being converted into a fully-equipped kitchen, food storage areas, dining room and an attached greenhouse.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/nine-practices-from-native-american-culture-that-could-help-the-environment/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/nine-practices-from-native-american-culture-that-could-help-the-environment/</guid><description>Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the world has experienced profound ecological changes. Wildlife populations have , the result of habitat loss caused by rapid industrialization and changing temperatures.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>Seeds From Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/seeds-from-wild-crop-relatives-could-help-agriculture-weather-climate-change/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/seeds-from-wild-crop-relatives-could-help-agriculture-weather-climate-change/</guid><description>In the rugged Tumacácori mountain region 45 minutes south of Tucson, the Wild Chile Botanical Area (WCBA) was established in 1999 to protect and study the chiltepin pepper—the single wild relative of hundreds of sweet and hot varieties including jalapeño,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Civil Eats</author></item><item><title>‘I was thrilled and shocked’: images raise hopes of return of wild jaguars to the US</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/i-was-thrilled-and-shocked-images-raise-hopes-of-return-of-wild-jaguars-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/i-was-thrilled-and-shocked-images-raise-hopes-of-return-of-wild-jaguars-to-the-us/</guid><description>The young, muscular male approached from the east at about 4am. He paused briefly in front of the motion-sensor camera, seemingly posing for the photo.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:30:36 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>‘It healed me’: the Indigenous forager reconnecting Native Americans with their roots</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/it-healed-me-the-indigenous-forager-reconnecting-native-americans-with-their-roots/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/it-healed-me-the-indigenous-forager-reconnecting-native-americans-with-their-roots/</guid><description>On a warm day in April, Twila Cassadore piloted her pickup truck toward the mountains on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona to scout for wild edible plants.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>The Future of Farming: Vertical Harvest Reimagines Growing Produce in a Sustainable Urban Oasis</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/the-future-of-farming-vertical-harvest-reimagines-growing-produce-in-a-sustainable-urban-oasis/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/the-future-of-farming-vertical-harvest-reimagines-growing-produce-in-a-sustainable-urban-oasis/</guid><description>JACKSON, Wyo. — On average, fresh produce travels over 1,500 miles from farm to fork in the United States — the equivalent of driving from Los Angeles to Houston.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Wyoming Truth</author></item><item><title>‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/a-living-pantry-how-an-urban-food-forest-in-arizona-became-a-model-for-climate-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/a-living-pantry-how-an-urban-food-forest-in-arizona-became-a-model-for-climate-action/</guid><description>Near downtown Tucson, Arizona, is Dunbar Spring, a neighborhood unlike any other in the city. The unpaved sidewalks are lined with native, food-bearing trees and shrubs fed by rainwater diverted from city streets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Part 1: A Struggling Coal Town Looks to a Nuclear Future</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/part-1-a-struggling-coal-town-looks-to-a-nuclear-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/part-1-a-struggling-coal-town-looks-to-a-nuclear-future/</guid><description>Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to build state’s first nuclear power plant Oct. 1, 2022By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthKEMMERER, Wyo.—In late 2019, Teri Picerno heard that the Naughton coal power plant outside of Kemmerer would close in the coming years.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:10:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Wyoming Truth</author></item><item><title>Creating The ‘Carbon Capture State’ (Part 1)</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/creating-the-carbon-capture-state-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/creating-the-carbon-capture-state-part-1/</guid><description>In Wyoming’s coal country, an emerging climate technology takes holdFeb. 15, 2023By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthIn 2021, a record high 36 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere, according to the International Energy Agency.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Wyoming Truth</author></item><item><title>Part 2: A Struggling Coal Town Looks to a Nuclear Future</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/part-2-a-struggling-coal-town-looks-to-a-nuclear-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/part-2-a-struggling-coal-town-looks-to-a-nuclear-future/</guid><description>Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to build state’s first nuclear power plant Oct. 2, 2022By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthOn Saturday, the Wyoming Truth published the part one of a story about Kemmerer, future home of TerraPower’s Natrium reactor.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Wyoming Truth</author></item><item><title>Invisible and toxic in New Mexico</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/invisible-and-toxic-in-new-mexico/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/invisible-and-toxic-in-new-mexico/</guid><description>In her 30 years working as a health care professional in the Navajo Nation, Adella Begaye witnessed the health impacts of extractive industries on Indigenous communities in the Southwest.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Source New Mexico</author></item><item><title>To understand the orphan well problem in NM, someone&apos;s going to have to count them</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/to-understand-the-orphan-well-problem-in-nm-someones-going-to-have-to-count-them/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/to-understand-the-orphan-well-problem-in-nm-someones-going-to-have-to-count-them/</guid><description>The 50-square-mile stretch of public land known as Glade Run is described on the Bureau of Land Management’s website as a “great spot for the weekend warrior.” Glade Run is punctured by 600 oil and gas wells, connected by hundreds...</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Source New Mexico</author></item><item><title>Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/blue-corn-and-melons-meet-the-seed-keepers-reviving-ancient-resilient-crops/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/blue-corn-and-melons-meet-the-seed-keepers-reviving-ancient-resilient-crops/</guid><description>On a windy winter day in Acoma Pueblo in north-western New Mexico, Aaron Lowden knelt beside a field near the San Jose River, the tribe’s primary irrigator for centuries.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Photo essay: Former foster youth navigate motherhood</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/photo-essay-former-foster-youth-navigate-motherhood/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/photo-essay-former-foster-youth-navigate-motherhood/</guid><description>Youth who age out of the foster care system face myriad challenges associated with family instability and poverty. They often lack basic life skills or the support network needed to transition to adulthood.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Youth Today</author></item><item><title>Native Americans’ farming practices may help feed a warming world</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/native-americans-farming-practices-may-help-feed-a-warming-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/native-americans-farming-practices-may-help-feed-a-warming-world/</guid><description>TUCSON — Indigenous peoples have known for millennia to plant under the shade of the mesquite and paloverde trees that mark the Sonoran Desert here, shielding their crops from the intense sun and reducing the amount of water needed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>Native Americans farming practices hold potential amid climate change</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/native-americans-farming-practices-hold-potential-amid-climate-change/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/native-americans-farming-practices-hold-potential-amid-climate-change/</guid><description>TUCSON — Indigenous peoples have known for millennia to plant under the shade of the mesquite and paloverde trees that mark the Sonoran Desert here, shielding their crops from the intense sun and reducing the amount of water needed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Washington Post</author></item><item><title>Santa Fe Fashion Designer Touts Style, Comfort to Boot</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/santa-fe-fashion-designer-touts-style-comfort-to-boot/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/santa-fe-fashion-designer-touts-style-comfort-to-boot/</guid><description>Wendy Lane Henry vividly remembers the first pair of cowboy boots she ever bought. She was a teenager walking through a Neiman Marcus department store in Miami when she spotted a pair of burgundy-colored alligator skin boots.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Santa Fe New Mexican</author></item><item><title>Reclaiming and Expanding Native Foodways in New Mexico, One Seed at a Time</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/reclaiming-and-expanding-native-foodways-in-new-mexico-one-seed-at-a-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/reclaiming-and-expanding-native-foodways-in-new-mexico-one-seed-at-a-time/</guid><description>SAN PEDRO — For the past 34 years, Roxanne Swentzell has worked to save the seeds of her ancestors. “I remember getting a small pouch of a variety of Pueblo white corn that had been passed down from my great-great-grandmother,”...</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Santa Fe New Mexican</author></item><item><title>Some New Mexico Counties Resist Inoculation Against COVID-19</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/some-new-mexico-counties-resist-inoculation-against-covid-20/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/some-new-mexico-counties-resist-inoculation-against-covid-20/</guid><description>Mama T’s Road to Ruin — known for a chile-smothered chicken-fried steak that’s big enough to be served up on a car hood — is a can’t-miss joint if you’re anywhere close to this small town in Quay County.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Santa Fe New Mexican</author></item><item><title>Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Joy Planned in Santa Fe</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/juneteenth-a-celebration-of-black-joy-planned-in-santa-fe/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/juneteenth-a-celebration-of-black-joy-planned-in-santa-fe/</guid><description>In the mid-1970s, Charles E. Becknell, then in grade school, attended one of the first official Juneteenth celebrations in New Mexico. At the time, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery was an obscure one to many people outside the...</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Santa Fe New Mexican</author></item><item><title>A Night at Santa Fe&apos;s GreenTree Inn</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/a-night-at-santa-fes-greentree-inn/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/a-night-at-santa-fes-greentree-inn/</guid><description>Nights at the GreenTree Inn are rarely quiet. During his first stay in the spring of 2020, Noah Armijo awoke to the sound of gunshots in the parking lot nearby.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Santa Fe New Mexican</author></item><item><title>2020 was deadliest year for migrants crossing unlawfully into US via Arizona</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/2020-was-deadliest-year-for-migrants-crossing-unlawfully-into-us-via-arizona/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/2020-was-deadliest-year-for-migrants-crossing-unlawfully-into-us-via-arizona/</guid><description>© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Micah Garen/Getty Images When the remains of two undocumented migrants were found in the desert of south-western Arizona last July, one body lay next to an arrow drawn in the sand, pointing north, with...</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>My neighbourhood is being destroyed to pacify his supporters&apos;: the race to complete Trump&apos;s wall</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/my-neighbourhood-is-being-destroyed-to-pacify-his-supporters-the-race-to-complete-trumps-wall/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/my-neighbourhood-is-being-destroyed-to-pacify-his-supporters-the-race-to-complete-trumps-wall/</guid><description>At Sierra Vista Ranch in Arizona near the Mexican border, Troy McDaniel is warming up his helicopter. McDaniel, tall and slim in a tan jumpsuit, began taking flying lessons in the 80s, and has since logged 2,000 hours in the...</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Trump’s border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars in the US</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trumps-border-wall-construction-threatens-survival-of-jaguars-in-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trumps-border-wall-construction-threatens-survival-of-jaguars-in-the-us/</guid><description>By the 1960s, the North American jaguar had vanished from the southern US borderland after being hunted to extinction. Yet in the mid-1990s, there was a remarkablediscovery: the jaguar had reappeared in the Sky Islands of Arizona, a region of...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>An incredible scar&apos;: the harsh toll of Trump&apos;s 400-mile wall through national parks</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/an-incredible-scar-the-harsh-toll-of-trumps-400mile-wall-through-national-parks/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/an-incredible-scar-the-harsh-toll-of-trumps-400mile-wall-through-national-parks/</guid><description>In the 1980s, when Kevin Dahl first began visiting the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, the border was unmarked, save for a simple fence used to keep cattle from a ranch in the US from crossing into...</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Protests target Spanish colonial statues that &apos;celebrate genocide&apos; in US west</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/protests-target-spanish-colonial-statues-that-celebrate-genocide-in-us-west/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/protests-target-spanish-colonial-statues-that-celebrate-genocide-in-us-west/</guid><description>As a national debate swirls around statues of Confederate officials, a new battle is brewing in the western US over the fate of monuments glorifying the brutal Spanish conquest of the Americas.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Armed vigilantes under scrutiny after statue protester shot in New Mexico</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/armed-vigilantes-under-scrutiny-after-statue-protester-shot-in-new-mexico/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/armed-vigilantes-under-scrutiny-after-statue-protester-shot-in-new-mexico/</guid><description>Officials are scrutinizing armed vigilante groups in New Mexicofollowing the shooting of a protester calling for the removal of a controversial colonial statue. Police are examining whether the shooter belonged to New Mexico Civil Guard, whose members were out in...</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:25:03 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Inside the Border Security Expo, Where Companies Sell Surveillance Tech to CBP</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/inside-the-border-security-expo-where-companies-sell-surveillance-tech-to-cbp/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/inside-the-border-security-expo-where-companies-sell-surveillance-tech-to-cbp/</guid><description>On demo day at the Border Security Expo, hundreds of law enforcement agents armed with M16s, automatic shotguns, pistols, and other high powered and military-grade weapons strolled around the grounds at the Bandera Gun Club outside of San Antonio.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Vice</author></item><item><title>X marks the spot: treasure hunters in shock after reported $2m find in Rocky Mountains</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/x-marks-the-spot-treasure-hunters-in-shock-after-reported-2m-find-in-rocky-mountains/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/x-marks-the-spot-treasure-hunters-in-shock-after-reported-2m-find-in-rocky-mountains/</guid><description>Treasure hunters have reacted with shock, delight and disbelief to the news that a chest containing gems, gold and antiques worth up to $2m has reportedly been found in the Rocky Mountains.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Not a mask in sight&apos;: thousands flock to Yellowstone as park reopens</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/not-a-mask-in-sight-thousands-flock-to-yellowstone-as-park-reopens/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/not-a-mask-in-sight-thousands-flock-to-yellowstone-as-park-reopens/</guid><description>On Monday, thousands of visitors from across the country descended on Yellowstone national park, which opened for the first time since its closure in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Why This Woman Chooses to Live in a Ghost Town</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/why-this-woman-chooses-to-live-in-a-ghost-town/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/why-this-woman-chooses-to-live-in-a-ghost-town/</guid><description>Inside a refurbished schoolhouse in a ghost town on New Mexico’s rural eastern plains, Debra Dawson sits on the side of her bed. “Some people call me a crazy cat lady,” she says, motioning toward the pile of kittens cuddling...</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Outside Magazine</author></item><item><title>US national park reopenings raise fears of coronavirus outbreaks</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/us-national-park-reopenings-raise-fears-of-coronavirus-outbreaks/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/us-national-park-reopenings-raise-fears-of-coronavirus-outbreaks/</guid><description>On Wednesday, Zion national park in Utah, one of the most popular natural attractions in the US, received its first visitors in more than a month as the Trump administration continued its push to reopen the nation’s outdoors as well...</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Pandemic fears in border towns as workers flock in to build Trump&apos;s wall</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/pandemic-fears-in-border-towns-as-workers-flock-in-to-build-trumps-wall/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/pandemic-fears-in-border-towns-as-workers-flock-in-to-build-trumps-wall/</guid><description>Unlike the rest of the US, the sleepy border community of Ajo, Arizona, is busier than ever these days, as hundreds of border wall construction workers pass through each day.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Revealed: how poor Mexicans&apos; blood plasma feeds UK demand</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/revealed-how-poor-mexicans-blood-plasma-feeds-uk-demand/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/revealed-how-poor-mexicans-blood-plasma-feeds-uk-demand/</guid><description>“The first time I went, I wanted to cry,” said Lucía, a mother of three, describing how her economic situation would compel her to do the journey from her home in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez to line...</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>‘Treated like trash’: the project trying to identify the bodies of migrants</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/treated-like-trash-the-project-trying-to-identify-the-bodies-of-migrants/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/treated-like-trash-the-project-trying-to-identify-the-bodies-of-migrants/</guid><description>Soil is carefully dug and then brushed away and the bags removed from the ground. Inside are bones but also small items that give a touch of humanity and threads of stories where flesh – and names – are missing.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 08:15:30 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Trump deploys &apos;surge&apos; of park rangers to patrol Mexican border</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trump-deploys-surge-of-park-rangers-to-patrol-mexican-border/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/trump-deploys-surge-of-park-rangers-to-patrol-mexican-border/</guid><description>Diverting rangers is a way to direct federal resources to the border without the need for congressional approvalHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>‘This touched everyone’: Walmart store reopens months after mass shooting</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/this-touched-everyone-walmart-store-reopens-months-after-mass-shooting/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/this-touched-everyone-walmart-store-reopens-months-after-mass-shooting/</guid><description>Three months after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history, the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where 22 were killed in an August rampage reopened on Thursday amid tears and smiles from customers and staff as...</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:19:25 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians: The Annexation of Area C</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/maximum-land-with-minimum-palestinians-the-annexation-of-area-c/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/maximum-land-with-minimum-palestinians-the-annexation-of-area-c/</guid><description>Early this month Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a report on Israel’s policy in Area C and its implications for the population of the West Bank.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Palestine Chronicle</author></item><item><title>National tragedy&apos;: Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/national-tragedy-trump-begins-border-wall-construction-in-unesco-reserve/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/national-tragedy-trump-begins-border-wall-construction-in-unesco-reserve/</guid><description>In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial...</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — The Guardian</author></item><item><title>Why Violence Persists in New Mexico&apos;s Indigenous Border Towns</title><link>https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/why-violence-persists-in-new-mexicos-indigenous-border-towns/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://samuelngilbert.com/articles/why-violence-persists-in-new-mexicos-indigenous-border-towns/</guid><description>This article appears in VICE Magazine&apos;s Borders Issue. The edition is a global exploration of both physical and invisible borders and examines who is affected by these lines and why we&apos;ve imbued them with so much power.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Samuel N. Gilbert — Vice</author></item></channel></rss>