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New Mexico

  • Headwaters

    The A-ROD Project: A 24-Hour New Mexico trout slam

    Meet the Team Zeke Soliz (Director / Editor)A graduate of the Creative Media Institute in Las Cruces, Zeke juggled postproduction deadlines with his final semester classes—proving that a little academic pressure can fuel a big creative drive. Esteban “Stev” Molina (Wildland Firefighter / Angler)Born and raised in Silver City, Stev knows New Mexico’s waterways like…

  • Advocacy

    New Mexico Legislature 2025: A banner year for trout

    It’s not every year that a state can protect and restore its natural resources or reimagine how they are managed. In its 2025 session, New Mexico state legislators had three such opportunities and admirably met the moment. In no small part due to the efforts of Trout Unlimited, the legislature prioritized modern wildlife management, its…

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Jim Brooks guards the Gila

    TU works with some extremely talented people while developing and completing projects in the field that help make fishing better. We are excited to bring you a series highlighting these contractors. We hire equipment operators, truck drivers, laborers, material suppliers, engineers, technicians and water testing labs. They are unique, talented, humble and some are downright wild, but TU’s contractors are a…

  • Conservation

    Guardians of the Gila Wilderness

    Rambunctious tales from the first century of America’s first Wilderness Come and get it, you SOBs!” bellowed camp cook and retired New Mexico Game and Fish game warden Lief Ahlm. The refrain has become our dinner bell for the chow line during several days in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico, where we have gathered…

  • Advocacy

    A healthy river is a connected river

    USFWS fish passage funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will support TU projects in Priority Waters across eight states TU members know fish, watersheds and communities benefit from connected watersheds, which is why we’re celebrating the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) announcement that 43 fish passage restoration projects across 29 states have…