[ noun ] a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River <noun.object>
"There's a feeling here that the only thing worse than giving them the holiday is not giving it to them," said Jim Tidwell, chairman of the Republican Party in Gila County.
A similar case occurred in Arizona, where the Gila River Indians won a lottery, but they reached a settlement recently with a subsidiary of U.S. West Communications before the case reached the commission.
The creek was becoming choked by ash from a lightning-caused fire in Gila National Forest that burned more than 10,000 acres before being contained on Monday.
New Mexico: A 10,000-acre fire in Gila National Forest 50 miles from Silver City was contained late Monday.
Margaret Allen, child welfare supervisor for tribal services in the Gila River Indian Community, in Arizona, said she has never been able to find an official within the BIA or the Indian Health Service responsible for treating sex offenders.
The nation's high for Sunday was 83 degrees at Buckeye and Gila Bend in Arizona, and Presidio, Texas.
Officials said 566 Gila trout were fished out of Diamond Creek in southwestern New Mexico, put in containers on mules and horses, loaded onto trucks and brought to the Mescalero Fish Hatchery.
Crews also fought two smaller fires covering about 2 acres each in the Gila forest near the Arizona border, Zapata said.
A 2,500-acre blaze near Diamond Peak in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico burned out of control.