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• Community Advocacy Conservation Fishing Voices from the river

  What Esther Garcia meant for fishing

  

  Growing up in New Mexico, I took for granted that there were fishing spots where no one would want to go. Steep hikes, brush and snags everywhere, places that required too much work to get to.  “Joke’s on them,” was my thinking; if only people knew that it was so much more fun than work. The people who knew…

• Community Conservation Diversity

  The ecology of multiple use

  Partners working together to protect one species and provide for another Effective partnerships win The 2014 listing of the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse as a federally endangered species caused the closure of an expansive meadow along the Rio Cebolla to all uses – camping, fishing and especially grazing. As a gathering pasture in the…

• Conservation TROUT Magazine

  Working to keep the Rio Grande cutthroat trout off the Endangered Species List

  Rio Grande cutthroat trout alive and well in Northern New Mexico Extensive efforts in southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico to restore habitat for the Rio Grande cutthroat trout (RGCT) have been underway since at least 2003. State agencies, tribes, federal agencies and Trout Unlimited have cooperated to bring this species back to more of its historic range, applying expert knowledge and…

• Conservation TROUT Magazine

  National Park Service strives to create home for native cutthroat

  Sand Creek Lakes What a thrilling prospect to catch native fish in a spectacular wilderness setting like in the picture above. That is what anglers’ dreams are made of. Years of hard work, planning and enduring partnerships strove towards this goal, but it’s still not quite a realized dream.   In 2005, Fred Bunch, chief of resource management at Great Sand Dunes National Park and…

• Voices from the river Conservation Fishing TROUT Magazine

  Native trout matter in New Mexico

  

  By Toner Mitchell For the past 10 springs, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has hosted a release of Rio Grande cutthroat trout fingerlings at the - as of 2014 - Rio Grande del Norte National Monument just west of the village of Questa. Initially the event drew decent crowds, 10 to 20…

• Spotlight on Rio Grande del Norte

  

  Note: this is part of a series of blogs detailing the Antiquities Act and national monuments that matter to hunters and anglers. Come back and visit in the coming days to learn more about your public lands and how national monuments conserve our hunting and fishing heritage. By Greg McReynolds The Red River crashes into…