NMLC seeks a positive, motivated and self-starting individual to handle its day to day/monthly/quarterly/yearly accounting; help run an efficient, smooth and effective office and facility; and to support other organizational administrative activities as needed. This full-time office position reports to the Executive Director, works closely with other staff and professional service providers; and, depending on need, may be asked to…
The Conservation Fund enlists NMLC to help complete a historic conservation easement project that combines maintaining military readiness with preserving a working agricultural landscape and wildlife.
(click on photo for our latest e-new bulletin!) In New Mexico, thanks to our glorious, still remaining, unfragmented open space, you can almost see the curve of the earth! And NMLC is working to help keep it that way ─ for water, wildlife and for our important working ranches and farms. Happy Earth Day from the New Mexico Land Conservancy…
NMLC was recently featured in the Land Trust Alliance's magazine, SAVING LAND, in a story about the North America Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant awarded in 2018 for a project to be completed this year. Story reprinted below: The North American Wetlands Conservation Act, or NAWCA, turns 30 this year. "It's all about partnerships," says Wendy Jackson, executive vice president…
Visit us on May 11, 2019 at 'Give Grandly!' in Silver City & Meet Ron Troy, NMLC's Southern New Mexico Project Manager The New Mexico Land Conservancy (NMLC) is honored to participate each year in the 'Give Grandly' fundraising event in Silver City to raise money for, and awareness of, the great work local nonprofits are doing in southwestern…
Highlights of NMLC's 2018 Annual Report including our new 5-year strategic plan 2019-2014.
Located just south of Santa Fe, NM, the Glorieta Mesa Ranch borders the Santa Fe National Forest in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, west of the Pecos River Valley. In October, NMLC recorded a conservation easement on 396 choice acres of the ranch, thereby preserving some exceptionally scenic open space in the region. The property has several ephemeral drainages…
Senator Martin Heinrich was able to get out of his Washington office and onto the land recently for a 2-day tour of the Ft. Union Ranch, near Watrous, NM, to learn more about the importance of conservation in this shortgrass prairie region along the Sangre de Cristo Front Range of northeast New Mexico. New Mexico Land Conservancy’s Executive Director, Scott…
The only statewide land trust in New Mexico, our work doesn’t end when the conservation easement is recorded. Every easement requires annual monitoring – a big job when you have 75 properties and counting, spread across the entire state! So, this year, New Mexico Land Conservancy (NMLC) took to the skies with the help LightHawk Conservation Flying, a nonprofit group…
The New Mexico Land Conservancy has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the LOR Foundation for trails and open space planning and development, and municipal stream restoration in Silver City, NM. Silver City was among fifteen rural communities and towns in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming selected to equally share the $1.5 million grant – the broadest grantmaking…
