New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

New Mexico Conservation Bill Takes Key Step Towards Passage
El Rio Grande del Norte NCA/Wilderness Bill Before Senate Subcommittee
A hearing by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests today was cheered by New Mexico conservationists and sportsmen as a key step toward the passage of the El Rio Grande del [...]

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by Oscar Moctezuma O.
General Director Naturalia, A.C.

 
When we hear someone mentions the jaguar (Panthera onca), the first image we get is one of the big cat moving quietly through the tropical forest in search of its prey. Although this is a correct vision of the typical habitat in which this species lives, it doesn’t show [...]

Wilderness Without Wildlife Is Just Scenery
by Yvonne Boudreaux, Prairie Dog Pals
The prairie dog is certainly one of the most beleaguered of all species in the modern world.  Of the 13 original species only 5 remain. Over the last 100 years, the remaining 5 species of prairie dogs have plummeted to 1%-2% of their historical range [...]

You can now help support the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance by doing your online shopping through HealthyLife Foundation, our new fundraising partner.  A percentage of each purchase you make there will go to the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance with no additional cost to you.
 
As an added benefit, from now through June 30th, you will get a [...]

ASHINGTON, D.C.—On April 23rd, 2009, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) introduced legislation that would protect over 300,000 acres of wild public land in northern New Mexico. The bill is cosponsored by Senator Tom Udall (D-NM).
The “El Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation Area Establishment Act” would protect approximately 235,980 acres of public land managed by the [...]

n April 27, 2009 the United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision invalidating the Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas drilling plan for New Mexico’s Otero Mesa. The court ruled that the BLM’s original Resource Management Plan Amendment, which opened the vast majority of Otero Mesa to oil and gas leasing [...]

Measure Protects 2nd Wilderness Area in New Mexico in Last 20 Years
Washington, D.C.—The United States House of Representatives today passed by a vote of 285 to 140,  legislation to protect the Sabinoso Wilderness Area, as part of a large public lands bill. At 16,000 acres, Sabinoso is one of the finest intact Great-Plains ecosystems left [...]

A new study by an independent research organization says that proposed energy development by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Otero Mesa would provide few economic benefits to Otero County, and that preserving this wild grassland would be a wiser investment for local communities.
The Headwaters Economics study shows that the limited economic benefits of [...]