Weighing the risk and finding the reward Written by Amanda Walker, Park Ranger and Claire Revekant, Senior Wildlife Biologist My bags are packed, I’m ready to go. Go see the sandhill cranes at Bosque del Apache. Cranes who’ve just made a journey... Article and photos by new Friends member, Mel Coulson from Smithers, British Columbia. I first heard about Bosque del Apache in 2005 from current Friends Board President, Jonathan Manley’s dad, Peter, when we both attended a choral festival in St.... Article by Don Boyd, Friends BEAM Project Manager Imagine for a moment that you could fund a project that would pull tons of carbon out of the air and sequester it in the ground while simultaneously returning farm soil to a level of health it had not seen for decades,... 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... 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... 