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September 17, 2026

BLOG: New Mexico’s Wild Forests Are Texas’s Wild Forests, Too

More than 95 percent of Texas is privately owned. West Texas has no national forests. For many of us in…

September 4, 2026

MEDIA ADVISORY: New Mexico Wild and Conservation Partners Step In to Host Six Public Hearings Statewide After Forest Service Refuses to Hold Any Community Meetings on Roadless Rule Rescission

New Mexico Wild is partnering with organizations across the state to host six People’s Public Hearings, giving New Mexicans a…

August 27, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: Mexican Gray Wolves Being Moved and Killed for Problem Grazing Operations

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife has recently authorized the removal of two highly-imperiled Mexican gray wolves from grazing allotments that…

August 20, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: New Mexico Wild Mobilizes Statewide as Federal Government Opens Comment Period on Rule That Protects 1.6 Million Acres of New Mexico’s Wild Forests from Mining, Logging, and Road-Building

The Forest Service has opened a rushed 33-day comment period on rescinding protections for 1.6 million acres of New Mexico's…

August 3, 2026

BLOG: Delays in the Colorado River Negotiations are Bad News for the Rio Grande

When we talk about rivers in New Mexico, it’s no surprise that many people think first of the Rio Grande.…

July 30, 2026

MEDIA STATEMENT: New Mexico Wild Statement on Sandia Pueblo Transfer Act Proposal

For more than two decades, the 2003 T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act has stood as a compromise, a…

July 30, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds of Thousands of Americans File Comments on Trump Administration Plan to Open Greater Chaco Landscape to Drilling

Yesterday, the Trump administration concluded its 14-day public comment period on the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Draft Environmental Assessment,…

July 16, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: Trump Administration Moves One Step Closer to Revoking Chaco Canyon Protections, Ignoring the Wishes of Pueblo People and the Broader Public

Yesterday, the Trump administration began a 14-day public comment period on the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Draft Environmental Assessment as…

July 15, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: As Agencies Pursue Mexican Wolf Downlisting, Coalition Urges New Mexico to Close Protection Gaps

As federal and state wildlife agencies prepare to pursue downlisting of Mexican gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act, a…

July 15, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: New Mexico Organizations Stand With Congressional Delegation and Tribal Nations to Restore Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante

New Mexico Wild, Friends of the Rio Grande del Norte, and Friends of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks stand in solidarity with…

July 13, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: New Mexico Wild Warns Illegal Attack on Utah Monuments Puts Every National Monument at Risk

Today, President Trump signed executive orders gutting protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah, stripping…

July 8, 2026

PRESS RELEASE: Community, Ranchers, Businesses, Conservation Groups Celebrate Big Win for Antelope Pass

Last week, buried at the bottom of a larger press release, the company Almadex America Inc. (Almadex) announced it was…

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