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Sandhill cranes at Bosque del Apache. The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge (/ ˈboʊskeɪ dɛl əˈpætʃi / BOH-skay del ə-PATCH-ee, Spanish: [ˈboske ðel aˈpatʃe]; "Woodland of the Apache") is a National Wildlife Refuge located in southern New Mexico. It was founded in 1939 and is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The San Andres National Wildlife Refuge is located in the southern San Andres Mountains of southcentral New Mexico, USA. The refuge, which lies within the northernmost extension of the Chihuahuan Desert, has elevations ranging from 4,200 feet (1,300 m) to 8,239 feet (2,511 m) feet. Refuge habitats vary from creosote and Chihuahuan desert ...
The American black bear is the state mammal of New Mexico. This is a list of mammals in New Mexico. [1] [2] It includes mammals extirpated from New Mexico and species introduced into the state. A total of 169 mammals are listed.
Lincoln National Forest is a unit of the U.S. Forest Service located in southern New Mexico. The Lincoln National Forest covers an extensive 1.1 million acres in southeastern New Mexico. [ 3] Established by Presidential Proclamation in 1902 as the Lincoln Forest Reserve, the 1,103,897 acres (4,467.31 km 2) forest begins near the Texas border ...
United States Forest Service. Gila Wilderness was designated the world's first wilderness area on June 3, 1924. [1] Along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, the 558,014 acre (225,820 ha) (872 sq. mi.) wilderness is part of New Mexico's Gila National Forest. The wilderness is approximately 27 miles (43 km) from north to ...
The biggest and best desert bighorn sheep habitat in New Mexico is in the San Andres Mountains, which can host up to 400 bighorn. [3] An area of 57,215 acres (231.54 km 2 ) in the southern portion of the San Andres Mountain range was set aside in 1941 as the San Andres National Wildlife Refuge [ 4 ] to help preserve the desert bighorn sheep ...
The Gila National Forest is a United States National Forest in New Mexico. Established in 1905, it now covers approximately 2,710,659 acres (10,969.65 km 2), making it the sixth largest National Forest in the continental United States. The Forest administration also manage the part of the Apache National Forest in New Mexico which covers ...
Wildlife refuges and other nature areas protect 40% of Block Island, ... New Mexico. White Sands is an otherworldly gypsum dune field. ... Kaʻū is the southern end of the big Island of Hawaii.