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!
773,398 total acres conserved!
For Love of the Land
Latest News
Saving the Lesser Prairie Chicken
A recent partnership involving the New Mexico Land Conservancy, the New Mexico State Land Office, renewable energy company NextEra Energy, and local ranchers is throwing the bird a crucial lifeline: protection of over 22,229 acres (with more in progress) of critical habitat. This initiative, which balances conservation and habitat restoration with responsible land use, provides…
Chupadera Mesa
New Mexico Land Conservancy partners with State Land Office and Department of Defense to protect Chupadera Mesa.
L Bar H Ranch
In a fitting end to the 100-year anniversary of the Gila Wilderness, the New Mexico Land Conservancy recently protected 1,260 acres along the San Francisco River near Alma—a landscape surrounded by the Gila National Forest.