Conservation easements protect:
Water
Helping ensure that our watersheds remain whole and healthy – filtering and replenishing – and that precious, life-giving rivers, streams and other water flows are protected.
Wildlife
Helping protect the natural resources that wildlife depend on: water, habitat, and open space for their migratory corridors and flyways. After all, wildlife – and nature, in general – doesn’t recognize property lines!
Working Lands
Helping ranchers and farmers keep their properties whole and their heritage preserved, providing food and protecting New Mexico’s open space for public benefit.
Our Vision: One Million Acres Conserved!
Goal: 1,000,000 acres by 2030!
703,274 total acres conserved!
Land Conservation protects water, too!
Land conservation can play a critical role in ensuring that our watersheds remain whole and healthy. New Mexico Land Conservancy efforts have led to:
Conservation of:
.. . . and an additional:
Total acres as of July 2024
For Love of the Land
Latest News
315,000 acres permanently conserved on the Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico
New Mexico Land Conservancy and the Department of Defense partner to protect 315,000 acres of Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico.
Get the Water Off the Road!
Roads are one of the biggest impediments to our watersheds. They collect, concentrate and divert the original natural surface flow-patterns, causing erosion, down-cutting and accelerating sediment contribution into the mainstream system. Steve Carson explains how to get the water off the road.
A Major Win for Conservation in San Juan County
In a major win for private land conservation, the 12,451-acre B Square Ranch near Farmington, NM, was protected in perpetuity from subdivision and future development by two conservation easements, completed by and donated to the New Mexico Land Conservancy by landowner, Tommy Bolack, earlier this month.