New Mexico Wildlife magazine Conserving New Mexico's Wildlife for Future Generations
Los administradores de vida silvestre han usado el agua durante mucho tiempo, especialmente en el árido suroeste, como una herramienta para ayudar a mantener poblaciones saludables de animales. Lo que comenzó como un puñado de sitios de agua manejados para codornices y venados alrededor de 1940 floreció en unos 6,000 …
February, 2022
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8 February
Managed water sites can be fine-tuned for certain species
Wildlife managers have long used water, especially in the arid Southwest, as a tool to help support healthy animal populations. What began as a handful of managed water sites for quail and mule deer around 1940 blossomed into some 6,000 sites, intended to increase populations and benefit overall health for …
January, 2022
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28 January
Contando ovejas: Investigación promueve un nuevo y prometedor método para estudiar la vida silvestre
En un sitio remoto de terreno escabroso y montañoso en la equina suroeste de Nuevo México está el Área de Manejo de Vida Silvestre “Red Rock”. Desde 1980, esta instalación de cría en cautiverio de 1,500 acres para el borrego cimarrón del desierto, originalmente abastecida con animales capturados en las …
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28 January
Counting Sheep: Research pioneers promising new wildlife survey method
On a remote site of rugged, mountainous terrain in the southwestern corner of New Mexico lies the Red Rock Wildlife Management Area. Since 1980, this 1,500-acre captive breeding facility for desert bighorn sheep, originally stocked with animals captured in the nearby San Andres Mountains and in Mexico, has produced more …
December, 2020
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30 December
Backcrossing to the Future: Genetic Intervention for Gila Trout
In the summer of 2018, a pair of fish biologists and a pair of horse packers embarked on an arduous 13-hour trek through a remote section of the 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico, not far from the Arizona border. “We rode mules the first five or …