Photos and article by Socorro High School students, Bethany F., Addison S., and Maria R. On May 6th, 2024 our small group of students from Socorro High school toured Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. We first started off in the Visitor Center where we were...
Article by Gina Dello Russo, riparian ecologist and local advocate for the Rio Grande I was asked to speak at the Friends of Bosque del Apache Annual Meeting and enjoyed the opportunity to speak about water, one of the complex topics for our state. There are many...
Article by Alex Harper, field biologist, birding guide and outdoor educator. Shorebirds are truly impressive flyers – their bodies are sleek, their wings pointed and long. They move quickly and powerfully across the sky with fast, shallow wingbeats, propelled...
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 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,...
Drone photo by Amy Erickson/RGALT Article by Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust, originally published in their Summer 2023 newsletter Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust (RGALT) protects agricultural lands, but what many people don’t know is that many of our...
