The U.S. House has approved [October 18] a new, 11,000-acre wilderness in Sandoval County, sending the bill to President Bush for his signature.
The Ojito Wilderness would be developed just south of San Ysidro on Bureau of Land Management property. The area, which has dramatic formations and rock structures, multicolored badlands and rare plants, has been preserved as a Wilderness Study Area since 1991.
— AP via The New Mexican
A description (from New West Network):
Ojito is just an hour from Albuquerque, and rests between Zia Pueblo and the creeping crawl of subdivisions in Rio Rancho and Bernalillo, north and west of the city. Marked by spectacular slot canyon and red cliffs, gypsum formations and green river beds, the wilderness is also partially ancestral lands for the Zia people.