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Our Mission

The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (NM Wild)  is a non-profit 501(C)(3), grassroots, environmental organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, and continued enjoyment of New Mexico’s wildlands and Wilderness areas. The primary goal of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is to ensure the protection and restoration of all remaining wild lands in New Mexico through administrative designations, federal Wilderness designation, and on-going advocacy.

Board of Directors Election

The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance invites our members to vote in our board of directors election from now until May 31, 2013, at 5 p.m. If you have not received an e-mail ballot and would like to vote in the election, please call 505-843-8696 or e-mail tina@nmwild.org to request a paper ballot. View candidate statements here.

Join us to raft the stunning Rio Chama

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Experience three days and two nights floating down America’s wild and scenic Rio Chama with experts, scientists and philosophers from the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.  Learn more or sign up now.

NM Wild Special Edition Newsletter

Our latest newsletter takes an in-depth look at the history of wolves and wolf policy in New Mexico as well as the West. Some of the topics covered include:

  • Failing the Wolf: New Mexico’s Pay-to-Play Game Commission Picks Politics Over Protection
  • Living With Wolves
  • The Original Lobo Louie

View our fall 2012 wolf newsletter now.

You can also view online extras and calls to action here.

Recent News

Their View: Why Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks is so special

By Lucas Herndon / For the Las Cruces Sun-News 05/21/2013 I am constantly amazed by the diversity of our amazing country and how far we have come in our relatively short history. I love learning about the stories and the places that our history has….

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EcoFlight Captain’s Log: Flying over the Rio Grande del Norte

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Essay: Park system a gift for you to unwrap

Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, Special for USA TODAY Among the annual rites Americans undertake this spring — from cleaning the garage to prepping the garden to analyzing the schedules of their favorite baseball team — we’d like to suggest one more. Prepare to inspect….

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Enthusiasts celebrate the anniversary of wolf reintroduction

By Benjamin Fisher, Silver City Sun-News 05/19/2013 SILVER CITY — More than 30 Mexican gray wolf enthusiasts and interested residents stepped into the shade at the Little Walnut Creek Picnic area for the 15th Anniversary Lobo Birthday Party on Sunday. Featuring guest speaker Dave Parsons,….

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Heinrich Urges Committee To Establish Wilderness Areas In The Río Grande del Norte National Monument

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An immeasurable resource

Only one day left! Please join us in our wilderness campaigns across New Mexico, and help us reach $10,000 by tomorrow at midnight. In New Mexico, water is gold. And we’re working to protect that liquid gold through our Columbine Hondo Wilderness campaign. Columbine Hondo….

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Meet the new director – Wilderness Weekly

In the News Mora County Bans  Oil and Gas Extraction A centenarian’s birthday wish for Columbine-Hondo Hispanic leaders spearheaded the RGDN National Monument Let’s Put the Wild Back Into Wilderness Vote in the 2013 board election Last Monday we sent e-mails to all our members….

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What would those desert peaks tell us?

Please join us in protecting Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, and help us reach our $10,000 goal by this Friday. Let’s put the wild back into Doña Ana County If those peaks could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they’d tell us about all the….

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A step in the right direction for wolves

Donate to our Mexican gray wolf campaign, and help us reach our $10,000 goal by May 10. Last week, we asked our members to sign our petition asking for the release of a wolf pair in New Mexico. Because of you, we were able to….

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Mora County Becomes the First County in the United States to Permanently Ban the Extraction of Oil and Gas

Strips oil and gas corporations of the rights of “persons” Mora County (4/29/2013) – On April 29th, at a special meeting called by the Mora County Board of Commissioners to vote on a “Community Bill of Rights,” Mora became the first County in the United….

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