December 2023 – Make your Backyard into a Bird Photo Studio November 2023 – Nurturing Wildlife and the Human Spirit: The Candelaria Nature Preserve November 2023 – An Indelible Memory October 2023 – Bosque del Apache is a Refuge for Carnivores...
There are many tools which land managers at Bosque del Apache utilize to accomplish the important work of habitat restoration on the refuge. Here, we see how a few of them – prescribed fire, heavy equipment and water infrastructure, used to flood and drain units...
By Trisha Sanchez, Donor Care Manager – Friends of Bosque del Apache Friends of Bosque del Apache Board President, Jonathan Manley, and I recently had the great privilege of attending the first National Friends Workshop to be held since before the pandemic,...
Article by Tom Kaye, Executive Director and Senior Ecologist at Institute for Applied Ecology, and originally published on Oct. 9, 2017 on their website, www.appliedeco.org. “I got one!” Steve Cary calls through a thicket of seep willow in full bloom. He’s...
By Karen Haley, Friends Member It is late October in Wisconsin, the Amish are harvesting corn from their fields in their labor intensive way, and as the fields become stretches of corn stock nubs, the cranes move in as gleaners—cleaners picking up bits of dropped corn...
By Karen Haley, Friends Member In the predawn cold of a New Mexico morning, the vinyl seats of an old school bus were hard and cold, but that couldn’t dampen the anticipation as the bus bumped along in the dark, heading into the refuge. It seemed a small price to pay...