Last month, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we turned our monthly Bosque Watch newsletter into a “Love Letter the the Refuge.” Now, in honor of our Water for the Wild campaign, which kicked off March 1st and aims to raise enough funds to assist Bosque... Awaken to the Wild Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is an irreplicable treasure, a fragile and important jewel in the New Mexico high desert, a rare section of the Rio Grande that still performs much like it did historically, before man altered the river... Article by Shelli Rottschafer and originally featured on pp. 192-199 of Enchanted Outpost Magazine’s Winter 2025 edition. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1939 as a critical stopover site for migratory waterfowl, such as greater... “It’s a matter of luck.” Corbin Bernsen’s definitive line in the movie, The Big Year (2011), says it all. The game, run by the American Birding Association, is to see as many species of birds as possible in a single calendar year, and this... In a year fraught with change and uncertainty, when threats to public lands (and our hardworking and dedicated Federal employees) seemed to escalate every day, when the ongoing Sun Zia transmission line construction alas made its way across the Rio Grande (and through... Friends of Bosque del Apache is extraordinarily lucky to have been selected as the fortunate recipient of so much generosity bestowed by the talented members of the Fiber Arts Guild of Socorro County over the course of the last decade. Again and again, they have... 