Where the Wild Things Are
IT’S NOT EASY to pick a beginning for New Mexico’s wildlife story. Some 23,000 years before White Sands became a national park, footprints left in mud by a young woman carrying a child on her hip…
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Tag: Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Reeling In Conservation
“THIS IS WHERE EGGS GO,” Leonard Rice says, while pulling out a shallow drawer containing water and tiny apricot-colored spheres. The Glenwood Fish Hatchery manager is charged with spawning and…
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Joe Saenz Makes Connections with the Land
H AVING RETURNED TO HIS ANCESTRAL lands almost 30 years ago, Joe Saenz shows people southwest New Mexico as his ancestors experienced it. Representing the Chiricahua Apache, who he believes are the…
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The Gila Wilderness At 100
LESS THAN FIVE MILES into the nation’s first designated wilderness area, I scan the muddy banks of New Mexico’s last free-flowing river for animal tracks, wondering who else is here. Low sunlight…
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Tales of the Gila Trout
Above: Biologists have spent decades attempting to bring back New Mexico's native Gila trout. Illustration by Mike Reagan. A CANYON WREN SANG AND THE NOTES fell one by one, as if dropping from…
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