A striking series of new reports has recently been released by Headwaters Economics, a high-tech nonprofit that offers a unique blend of economic research skills and on-the-ground experience-that offers New Mexico the specific, accurate data that we need when making political and economic judgments that will lead to sustainable regional development.
“Touchy” subjects such as oil and gas drilling and production, the role of Federally Protected lands, housing development and wildfires, and other elements that tend to be rapidly politicized, often relying on dubious industry statistics and analysis. The reports aim to improve community development and land management decisions in the West.…