The Nature Conservancy in New Mexico (TNC) uses preserve trail cameras to conduct rapid surveys to understand the presence and absence of species, allowing us to improve and restore habitats and support threatened and endangered species.
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Mimbres River Preserve
At Mimbres River Preserve, near Silver City, TNC and partners are working to re-establish the river’s natural flow regime, restore fire to the watershed’s uplands and encourage the recovery of riparian forests and aquatic habitat lost to channelization.
Meet some of the preserve's animal visitors below, as captured on various trail cameras.
Trail Camera at Mimbres River Preserve
Rattlesnake Springs Preserve
Deep in the Chihuahuan Desert, Rattlesnake Springs Preserve—connected to a national park complex—contains a relatively remote spring system. You wouldn’t expect to find a large water source here, and that source we’re protecting provides the drinking water for Carlsbad Caverns National Park, its visitors and the wildlife of the area.
The purpose of these trail cameras is to understand what animals are using the spring, monitor invasive wildlife species that could destroy the habitat for native species and examine which threatened and endangered species are present.
Trail Cam @ Rattlesnake Springs Preserve
Gila River Preserve
Dr. Keith Geluso, a biology professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, had a hypothesis: the Gila River and its floodplain—with its natural flow regime—likely support a vast number of mammals. But there wasn’t much research. That’s why he set up a camera at our Gila River Preserve near Silver City. Here is a sampling of what he discovered.
TRAIL CAMERA AT GILA RIVER PRESERVE
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