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Without Boundaries: A Partnership of Fire, Water, and Forest Health
Explore this feature story about the Two Watersheds – Three Rivers – Two States Cohesive Strategy Partnership (2-3-2 Partnership), a collaborative effort between many groups invested in the ecological and social health of a five-million-acre landscape. Story and photos by Hannah Nikonow, IWJV Communications and Marketing Coordinator There’s a place that spans three rivers and…
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A River of Elk Flows Through Heaven
Sabino Rivera’s family has lived on this remote parcel in northern New Mexico for five generations. The land feels the imprint of his feet every morning as he checks fences. The land also holds the family memories. Their daughter remembers a childhood spent running through wooded uplands and playing in the river—the river crossed by…
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IWJV Management Board looks at Western Forests on New Mexico tour
The IWJV’s Management Board met in Santa Fe, New Mexico in early April and had a fantastic field tour focused on forestry topics. The tour started off with a visit to the Santa Clara Pueblo to look at riparian restoration and post-fire erosion prevention projects and then visited the Puye Cliff Dwellings. Staff from the…
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Fire on the Chupadera
Fuels treatment successes at a local scale By Emily Downing, Intermountain West Joint Venture Lino Baca remembers visiting a fuels treatment site on Chupadera Mesa one year after he and his crews implemented a prescribed burn there. It was just after the monsoon brought much-needed moisture to central New Mexico, and hundreds of wildflowers blanketed…
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The Solution Seekers: Conservation in the Middle Rio Grande
The water crisis in New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande Valley is a microcosm of long-term drought playing out across the West. So, too, are the ways in which people are coming together to meet conservation challenges head-on. Climate change means New Mexico and much of the West face a drier and hotter future. Increasingly scarce…
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The Common Thread: People and the Rio Grande
The Intermountain West Joint Venture and Water 4 are pleased to present a new video highlighting the Rio Grande corridor in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and in Central New Mexico. Called “The Common Thread: People and the Rio Grande,” the video explores the importance of looking across boundaries to conserve the working landscapes that help…
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Conservation of New Mexico’s riparian and wetland ecosystems
This is a proposal for science monitoring seasonal surface water availability in New Mexico. New Mexico Wetlands Proposal Despite encompassing a small fraction of the landscape (< 2%), riparian systems in arid regions act as keystone features that concentrate biological diversity. These habitats are particularly important to waterbirds during migration and act as critical resting…
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The Fragile Flyway: Video from Water 4
Communities of people, waterbirds, and wildlife in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and central New Mexico are linked by the life-giving waters of the Rio Grande. Wetlands along the Rio Grande and throughout the Intermountain West are increasingly scarce, with only 2 percent of this historical range remaining. These habitats are typically associated with irrigated agriculture and…
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Hank Taliaferro Receives Private Landowner Conservation Champion Award
Noted as one of the most committed landowners to protecting wildlife, habitat, and agricultural lands within the Rio Grande corridor, Hank Taliaferro was presented the 2018 IWJV Private Landowner Conservation Champion Award while hosting a partner field tour on his property in central New Mexico on November 6, 2019. Hank started La Joya Farms by purchasing 108…
