New Mexico roadway hotspots identified as potential sites for wildlife bridges January 10, 2025 AOL.com
... NMDOT is now millions of dollars into some big plans that could lead to the first wildlife bridges being built in the state... plans to target roadway hotspots where animals like Elk and Mule Deer are getting hit by cars...
Holiday decorations pose risk to antlered wildlife December 10, 2024 New Mexico, The Taos News
... While deer are curious, and tangle hazards can present themselves at any time, bucks may also spar with and become tangled in swing sets, volleyball nets, bicycles, vegetable-wire cages, hoses and more during mating season...
New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish conducting checkpoints during hunting season September 17, 2024 KRQE
... The Department of Game and Fish is conducting checkpoints throughout the state this hunting season to collect biological data and to detect wildlife law violations...
Santa Ana Pueblo takes back ancestral land, declares conservation efforts, trespassing enforcement June 13, 2024 New Mexico,
Source New Mexico
... Our Land reports the Pueblo is using traditional knowledge and western science to heal the land after it was aggressively grazed for more than a century... “The elk have returned, the deer has returned, the antelope have returned, the bobcats, the mountain lions have returned,” ...
New report reignites debate around New Mexico's elk private land use system April 30, 2024 KUNM
... Elk are notorious for causing damage on private lands ... New Mexico’s Elk Private Land Use System or EPLUS, is meant to offset these damages and incentivize private land conservation ... providing landowners with special elk “tags” ... Opponents say the program privatizes elk hunting, making it more available to those with deep pockets...
Conservation agreement will protect elk migration route in northern New Mexico December 17, 2023 New Mexico, Albuquerque Journal
... A conservation agreement between one northern New Mexico landowner and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation means that elk and mule deer will be guaranteed 3,537 acres of winter range in perpetuity...
Colorado wolf releases could impact New Mexico's recovery of the lobo September 21, 2023 New Mexico, Carlsbad Current-Argus
... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is presently undertaking recovery efforts concentrated in southwest New Mexico and southern Arizona, with 136 wolves in New Mexico and 105 in Arizona in 2022, according to the agency’s latest data published in February...
Wandering bull moose is captured in downtown Santa Fe, moved to habitat in northern New Mexico September 13, 2023 New Mexico, Caledonian Record
... The moose was sedated with a tranquilizer dart and loaded onto a trailer before being evaluated by a Game and Fish Department veterinarian and determined to be in good health...
Moose sighting near Tesuque, New Mexico September 11, 2023 KRQE Blogs
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Plan to address wildlife-vehicle collisions in Grant awaits funding May 31, 2023 NEw Mexico, Silver City Daily Press
... fund the design phase of the first of 11 prioritized projects. Theoretically, the U.S. 180/N.M. 90 Silver City Wildlife Corridor is the plan’s second highest priority ... Most collisions in Silver City’s hot spot — 465 out of 574 animal collisions — are with mule deer...
Game and Fish investigating animal dumping ground May 10, 2023 New Mexico, KOB.com
... in northeast Albuquerque... at least four to five carcasses of doe deers ... illegal to move, handle, or possess wildlife that’s dead or alive ...
US rolls out funding for wildlife crossings along busy roads April 4, 2023 New Mexico, ABC
... Native American tribes, as well as state and local governments will be able to tap into $350 million in infrastructure funds to build wildlife corridors ... New Mexico also joined the effort when lawmakers passed legislation this spring to set aside $100 million for conservation projects...
New Mexico OKs its 1st wildlife bridges to limit collisions March 23, 2023 St. Joseph News-Press
... Several hundred large animals — primarily deer and elk — are killed in the state each year by collisions that can also total cars and severely injure human passengers..,
Rising oryx numbers may distress New Mexico ecosystem March 9, 2023 New Mexico, The Wildlife Society
... The New Mexico Game and Fish Department first introduced the South African oryx ... to the Tularosa Basin starting in 1969 ... Their diet overlaps with native species like ... mule deer ... Based on their larger size, and the weapons they wield in the form of nearly three-foot long horns, they could outcompete these ungulates for water and food ...
New Mexico lawmakers weigh next step for wildlife crossings January 30, 2023, Kiowa County Press
...State data also shows between 2002 and 2018, more than 11,000 deer were involved in crashes, or about 671 each year. The state's 2022 Wildlife Corridors Action Plan identified 11 safe-passage projects to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and restore habitat connectivity ...
2023-2024 Elk Hunting Forecast January 26, 2023 New Mexico, Department of Game and Fish
... Recent population estimates for elk indicate that the greater majority of herds are either stable or slightly increasing in size, with approximately 104,000 elk across all of New Mexico ...
2023-2024 Deer Hunting Forecast January 26, 2023 New Mexico, Department of Game and Fish
... Because of the influence of precipitation on fawn survival, most of New Mexico’s fawns are lost during the dry summer ... Mule deer populations in southwestern ecosystems require at least 35 fawns per 100 does over the long term to maintain stable populations. This is much lower than the 60-70 fawns per 100 does required in northern states, because New Mexico does not experience the heavy winter die-off that is experienced in those areas ...
Watch out for wildlife in the new year January 7, 2023 New Mexico, lcsun-news.com
... In 2019, the state legislature passed the Wildlife Corridors Act, which allocated $500,000 to study and identify priority areas to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions involving mule deer, elk ...
