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New Mexico Land Conservancy partners with State Land Office and Department of Defense to protect Chupadera Mesa.

 

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.

 

New Mexico Land Conservancy completed a conservation easement on Fite Ranch—permanently protecting over 5,000 acres of undeveloped land adjacent to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.

 

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.

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.

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.

While out and about in the northeast grasslands of New Mexico, conducting the annual monitoring of the conservation easements we hold for some of the larger, conservation-minded ranchers in the area, our summer monitoring intern, Stephen Fowler, was fortunate to happen upon a herd of pronghorn. Stephen has a keen eye for wildlife and he wasted no time getting his camera out to bring us these images.

Don't miss our Annual Report 2020 Magazine now Online! Featuring stories about the 10 new conservation easements NMLC completed in 2020, ranging in size from 12 to 12,000 acres of high conservation-value land throughout New Mexico, protecting agricultural working lands, wildlife habitat and migratory corridors, water resources, and more.