The department oversees 35 New Mexico state parks. McQueen is expected to oversee development of a new recreational trail, the Rio Grande Trail, that will extend for 500 miles across the state.

From Oklahoma. Yuck. Where fracking fluid injections are causing earthquake swarms! Doesn't bode well. The oil and gas folks are going to be chomping at the bit to widen their fracking endeavours around the state. We need to protect Chaco.