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Goodloes: Ranching for the Watershed on the Carrizo Ranch

  • October 22, 2019

—Land Management that encompasses the health of the forest, the grasses and the cows

Sid and his wife, Cheryl, own the Carrizo Valley Ranch, a 3,300-acre property, all under a conservation easement held by NMLC. The ranch is located adjacent to the Lincoln National Forest, on the eastern flanks of the Jicarilla Mountains, just north of Capitan, NM. Their son, Floyd Goodloe, owns the ranch next door. The family runs cattle and has a hunting operation as well.

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Happy Earth Day!

  • April 23, 2019

(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…

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NMLC gets Conservation Dollars – on the ground!

  • April 18, 2019

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…

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Meet Ron Troy in Silver City

  • April 17, 2019

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…

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A New Easement on the Glorieta Mesa Ranch

  • December 23, 2018

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…

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Rancher Takes a Chance on the Black-footed Ferret

  • October 10, 2018
Rancher Greg Moore is a land steward in the true sense of the world. Every decision made, every action taken on his 25,000-acre Wagon Mound Ranch in the northeastern part of the state is done with consideration of the health and improvement of the land for all those who depend on it including himself, his heard of 400-some cows and the wildlife that live on and pass through the ranch. To that end, he instigated the first official release in New Mexico in years of the endangered black-footed ferret on his ranch. Here's his story . . .
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Sen. Heinrich Visits Ft. Union Ranch

  • October 4, 2017

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…

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New Mexico Land Conservancy Takes to the Skies!

  • August 15, 2017

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…

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