/tags/conservation conservation en-US Copyright Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:01:19 GMT /local-news/2025-08-01/politics-fear-fight-mexican-gray-wolf 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:01:19 GMT /local-news/2025-08-01/politics-fear-fight-mexican-gray-wolf Bryce Dix /local-news/2025-06-06/beaver-study-dams-private-land 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. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:03:15 GMT /local-news/2025-06-06/beaver-study-dams-private-land Bryce Dix /local-news/2025-04-17/vanishing-river-vanishing-minnow 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. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:07:31 GMT /local-news/2025-04-17/vanishing-river-vanishing-minnow Bryce Dix /local-news/2024-11-08/mexican-wolf-management-reform 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. Fri, 08 Nov 2024 23:20:10 GMT /local-news/2024-11-08/mexican-wolf-management-reform Bryce Dix /local-news/2024-09-18/monarch-butterflies-conservation-albuquerque-rio-grande The favorite food of the migrating butterflies, milkweed, is on the decline along the Rio Grande. A new conservation effort aims to reverse that. Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:51:30 GMT /local-news/2024-09-18/monarch-butterflies-conservation-albuquerque-rio-grande Alice Fordham /local-news/2024-04-22/environmentalists-prepare-to-defend-new-blm-rule-against-legal-challenges The BLM has always leased land for things like oil and gas and grazing. Now it will sell leases for conservation, too. Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:22:31 GMT /local-news/2024-04-22/environmentalists-prepare-to-defend-new-blm-rule-against-legal-challenges Alice Fordham /local-news/2024-04-16/muleshoe-national-wildlife-refuge-gets-federal-support-to-expand 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. Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:33:13 GMT /local-news/2024-04-16/muleshoe-national-wildlife-refuge-gets-federal-support-to-expand Megan Myscofski /local-news/2024-02-29/upcoming-public-lands-rule-looks-to-reform-conservation-recreation 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. Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:19:43 GMT /local-news/2024-02-29/upcoming-public-lands-rule-looks-to-reform-conservation-recreation Bryce Dix /local-news/2024-02-16/federal-energy-regulators-deny-permits-for-a-controversial-project-on-the-navajo-nation 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. Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:58:55 GMT /local-news/2024-02-16/federal-energy-regulators-deny-permits-for-a-controversial-project-on-the-navajo-nation Alex Hager /local-news/2023-08-22/blm-holds-nm-meeting-on-oil-and-gas-leasing-proposal-seeks-input The Bureau of Land Management has proposed comprehensive changes to its rules for oil and gas leasing on federal land for the first time since 1988. The revision is designed to increase industry returns for taxpayers while also reducing harm to wildlife and cultural resources as part of the agency’s effort to better balance development with conservation. New Mexicans are invited to attend an information session in Albuquerque Tuesday to learn more about it ahead of submitting input. Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:18:53 GMT /local-news/2023-08-22/blm-holds-nm-meeting-on-oil-and-gas-leasing-proposal-seeks-input Nash Jones