Alicia Inez Guzmán, High Country News
Alicia Inez Guzmán is a correspondent for High Country News, based in northern New Mexico. Previously, she was a 2025 local investigations fellow with The New York Times reporting on the $1.7-trillion-effort to modernize America’s nuclear arsenal, and a reporter for Searchlight New Mexico.
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With every spring snowmelt or heavy summer monsoon comes the chance that radioactive particles and toxic chemicals could run down the lobed canyons that are etched into the sides of the Pajarito Plateau and outside the boundaries of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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The Continental Divide Trail is being militarized for the border wall