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New Mexico Year in Review 2022
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New Mexico Year in Review (English)From renewing freshwater to engaging with Indigenous partners, we've been busy in 2022! Read the highlights in our annual report.
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Nuevo México Año en Revisión (Español)Ya sea renovar fuentes de agua dulce y colaborar con comunidades indigenas, hemos estado ocupados en 2022! Lea los aspectos más destacados.
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2022 Rio Grande Water Fund Report Now Available
Since its launch in 2014, the Rio Grande Water Fund has impacted 251,000 acres of forest with restoration activities. Read the Fund’s 2022 annual report to learn more about our progress.
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Hold It High: 3 Restoration Projects That Are Improving Life in the Rio Grande Watershed
Local conservation leaders share how restoring streams and wetlands along the Rio Grande are bringing fresh water, economic opportunity and cultural wealth to New Mexico.
Latest Stories
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Hold It High: Enabling Sustainable Traditional and Cultural Forestry PracticesDiscover historical and emerging opportunities that enable sustainable and cultural forestry practices. Scaling the work is critical.
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New Indigenous Peoples Program Director at The Nature ConservancyThe Nature Conservancy has hired its first-ever Indigenous Partnerships Program director, John Waconda, of the Pueblo of Isleta.
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Under control: Midnight Fire was manageable thanks to prescribed burns, thinningCrews contained June's Midnight Fire quickly thanks to previous fire and forest thinning that acted as “building blocks” to slow it down.
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The Nature Conservancy is working across New Mexico to protect wildlife, rivers, lakes, and wetlands for people and nature.
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Rio Fernando headwaters restoration nears completionThe La Jara Wetlands Restoration Project led by Amigos Bravos and partners is wrapping up along the upper Rio Fernando de Taos in La Jara Canyon.
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Increase Recreational Opportunities, Improve Your Health, Protect WildlifeThe acquisition of Bartlett Mesa Ranch builds on cross-border conservation and provides benefits for people and nature.
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Protecting People and Water, One Prescribed Burn at a TimePrescribed burns like this help to safely reintroduce low intensity, surface fire to ponderosa pine forest while also eliminating slash piles from a recent thinning project and promoting new growth.