conservation

Ever since their reintroduction in the late 90s, wild Mexican wolves – a rare subspecies of gray wolf in the Southwest - have been labeled “nonessential” to the species’ overall survival by the federal government.

It's been more than a month since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed its own deadline to release a well-known endangered Mexican gray wolf and her family back into the wild after she was caught wandering well beyond the species’ recovery area twice in New Mexico.

The results of a first-of-its-kind aerial survey of beaver dams in New Mexico, released this week, reveal a stark contrast between the northern and southern parts of the state.

In New Mexico, spring is a time of rebirth, with wildflowers blooming across the high desert, cottonwoods beginning to bud, and snowmelt cascading from the mountains. It’s also a critical season for fish like the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow, which rely on influxes of cold water to reproduce.

New Mexico’s approach to management of the endangered Mexican gray wolf took center-stage at Friday’s Game and Fish commission meeting in Las Cruces.

The favorite food of the migrating butterflies, milkweed, is on the decline along the Rio Grande. A new conservation effort aims to reverse that.

The BLM has always leased land for things like oil and gas and grazing. Now it will sell leases for conservation, too.

Four National Wildlife Refuges across the country now have support from the federal government to expand, and Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, which spans across the Texas-New Mexico border, is one of them.

This spring, a much-anticipated and widely praised rule will fundamentally transform how 245 million acres of public lands across the U.S. is managed to emphasize conservation and wider public access.

The hydropower company Nature and People First had proposed a "pumped storage" project in the Black Mesa area. Indigenous advocates are celebrating the decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.